Mulk Raj Anand: The Craft of Short Story Writing

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 C

The short story and its craft

The Indian story-telling traditions

Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – themes

Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – characterization

Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – narrative technique and structure
 

Source Books: 
  1. Stories from Anand, Mulk Raj. Greatest Short Stories. Mumbai: Jaico, 1999.
  2. The Lost Child
  3. Lullaby                                                                                       
  4. Lajwanti                                                                                                          
  5. The Cobbler and the Machine                                                                   
  6. The Power of Darkness                                                                       
  7. A Kashmir Idyll                                                                                   
  8. A Pair of Mustachios                                                                           
  9. The Liar                                                                                                
  10. The Tamarind Tree                                                                              
  11. The Thief
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Garimella, Annapurna (Editor). Mulk Raj Anand: Shaping the Indian Modern. Mumbai: Marg Publications. 2005. 124pp.
  2. Naik, M. K.(Ed.). “Introduction” to Mulk Raj Anand: Greatest Short Stories.
  3. Ramanan, Mohan and P. Sailaja. English and the Indian Short Story. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2000.
  4. Reid, Ian. The Short Story. (The Critical Idiom). London: Routledge, 197