Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 202
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  1. To enable the students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works as avenues of creativity
  2. To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction & short stories, viz. structure, dialogue, mood, setting, scenes, language, etc.
8.00
Unit I: 
Johnathan Swift
On Style
 
Oliver Goldsmith                    
National Prejudices
 
 
 
 
 
9.00
Unit II: 
Charles Lamb
Dream Children : A Reverie
 
William Hazlitt                         
Common Sense
9.00
Unit III: 
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
 
John Galsworthy
Quality
 
H. G. Wells                                             
The Apple
9.00
Unit IV: 
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                          
The Dying Detective
 
H.H. Munro
The Open Window
10.00
Unit V: 
George Eliot

Silas Marner

Source Books: 
  • English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1. Oxford UP.
  • Popular Short Stories. Oxford UP.
  • An Anthology of Short Stories. University of Allahabad: OUP.
  • Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning.
  • Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019