Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 102
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Appraise a variety of prose and fictional works
    • Comprehend and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
    • Understand the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language
10.00

Francis Bacon

Of Youth and Age

Of Studies

 

Abraham Cowley    

Of Solitude      

 

9.00

Joseph Addison

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

 

Richard Steele

The Art of Conversation

 

Samuel Johnson

 Praises of Solitude

 

7.00

Washington Irving      

Adventures of the German Student

 

Edgar Allan Poe

Some Words with a Mummy

 

Guy de Maupassant

The Necklace

 

7.00

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.Macmillan, 1893.

Popular Short Stories. Oxford UP, 2002.

Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. OUP, 1998.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.

Boulton, Majorie. Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP, 2008.

Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge& Kegan Paul, 1982.

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021