Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 102
Credits: 
03
Objective: 
  1. To enable 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.

 

9.00

Francis Bacon        Of Youth and Age

                            Of Studies 

Abraham Cowley     Of Solitude

8.00

Joseph Addison            Meditations in Westminster Abbey

Richard Steele              The Art of Conversation 

Samuel Johnson            Praises of Solitude

8.00

Washington Irving         Adventures of the German Student  

Edgar Allan Poe             Some Words with a Mummy 

Guy de Maupassant        The Necklace

8.00

Leo Tolstoy               How Much Land Does a Man Need? 

Anton Chekhov         A Work of Art 

Oscar Wilde              The Model Millionaire     

12.00

Jane Austen                        Pride and Prejudice

Source Books: 
  • English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1. Oxford UP.
  • Popular Short Stories. Oxford UP.
  • Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning.
  • Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Prose. Routledge & Kegan Paul.