Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 302
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

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

     

 

9.00

R.L. Stevenson  

El Dorado

 

Bertrand Russell          

Machines and Emotions

 

8.00

E.V. Lucas                 

Third Thoughts 

 

G.K. Chesterton      

The Adventures of Having One Leg               

 

8.00

Lu Xun

Kong Yiji

 

Katherine Mansfield      

A Cup of Tea 

 

William Somerset Maugham                

The Ant and the Grasshopper       

8.00

Morley Callaghan 

The Snob             

 

Chinua Achebe       

Marriage is a Private Affair

 

Emily Gaboriau

The Accursed House

 

12.00

Thomas Hardy    

The Mayor of Casterbridge

 

Source Books: 

Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Longman, 1949.

Sasikumar, Java and Gunasheka, Paul. Spectrum- An Anthology of Short Stories. Orient Longman Private Limited,1974.

Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. Longman, 1970.

Boulton, Marjorie. Anatomy of Prose.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1968.

Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. Oxford University Press, 2001

Academic Year: 
2020-2021