Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 202
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Understand a range of prose and fictional works
    • Comprehend the 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

 

9.00

Jonathan Swift

On Style

 

Oliver Goldsmith

National Prejudices

 

9.00

Charles Lamb

Dream Children: A Reverie

                                   

William Hazlitt       

Common Sense

 

9.00

Nathaniel Hawthorne    

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment 

 

John Galsworthy

Quality

 

H. G. Wells

The Apple

 

8.00

O. Henry  

 The Gift of the Magi

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Dying Detective

 

H.H. Munro  

 The Open Window

 

10.00

George Eliot

Silas Marner

 

Source Books: 

English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1.Macmillan, 1893.

Popular Short Stories. OUP, 2002.

Kumar, Shashi and Paul Gunshekhar. An Anthology of Short Stories. Orient Longman, 2003.

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

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

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

Boulton, Marjorie. Anatomy of Poetry.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021