Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 402
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Objectives:

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Evaluate a variety of prose and fictional works
    • Assess the representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
    • Demonstrate the understanding of  the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language

H. Belloc      

On an Educational Reform 

 

Aldous Huxley 

Pleasures

 

Gilbert Highet

Wonders are Many             

Robert Lynd

Student

 

Herbert Read

The Poet and the Film

 

J. B. Priestley                                           

In Crimson Silk

Alan Sillitoe

On Saturday Afternoon

 

KewlianSio

Let’s Go Home

 

Joyce Cary                                                

Growing Up

Maxim Gorky                                                                               

The Mother of a Traitor

 

Liam O’ Flaherty                                          

 The Reaping Race

 

Ernest Hemingway                                  

Old Man at the Bridge

George Orwell                                                            

Animal Farm

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Batra , Shakti and  Sidhu, P.S. Ed. . Choice of Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Kumar, Shiv. Ed. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. Oxford University Press, 1998.

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

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

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

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

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

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

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021