Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 202
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To enable the students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works as avenues of creativity.
  • To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction & short stories, viz. structure, dialogue, mood, setting, scenes, language, etc.
8.00
Unit I: 

Jonathan 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.Macmillan: London, 1893. Print.
  • Popular Short Stories. OUP: UK, 2002. Print.
  • Kumar, Shashi and Paul Gunshekhar. An Anthology of Short Stories. Orient Longman: Hyderabad, 2003. Print.
  • Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. OUP: UK, 1998. Print.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP: UK, 2008. Print.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning: Boston, 2014. Print.
  • Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.Print.
Academic Year: 
2017-2018