Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 602
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
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

S. Radhakrishnan                                     
Democracy
Jim Corbett                                                
A Shot in the Dark
W.H. Hudson                                            
The Samphire Gatherer
 

9.00

Rabindranath Tagore                                 
Co-operation
Jawaharlal Nehru                                       
Testament

9.00

Kartar Singh Duggal                                  
Miracle
Manohar Malgonkar                                  
Two Red Roosters
Rudyard Kipling                                         
Rikki – Tikki – Tavi
 

Premchand                                               
The Child
Bhishma Sahni                                         
The Boss Came to Dinner
Prabhat K. Mukhopadhyay                       
The Muscular Son-in-Law

9.00

Rama Mehta    
Inside the Haveli

Source Books: 

1.A Choice of Short Stories, OUP,2006 (Edited by Shakti Batra and P.S. Sidhu)
2.A Choice of Prose, OUP – D. Chatterjee, S. K. Prasad
3.English Prose Selection (OUP)
4.Three Plays by Girish Karnad
5.Language Through Literature (OUP)
 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017