Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 502
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Evaluate a variety of prose and fictional works
  • Appraise  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

 

Rabindranath Tagore

Co-operation

 

M.K. Gandhi

Fearlessness

 

Ronald Mackin

Man of Everest

J.B.S. Haldane

Illnesses That Make You Healthier

 

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

My Birthplace

 

M. Chalapathi Rau

Nehru the Democrat

Ruskin Bond

The Blue Umbrella

 

C. Rajagopalachari

The Nose-jewel

 

ChamanNahal

The Silver Lining 

Khushwant Singh                                          

The Interview

 

P. Padmaraju

Cyclone

 

Mulk Raj Anand

The Lost Child

R. K. Narayan                                                   

The Guide

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Board of Stories. Popular Short Stories.  OUP, 2002.

Batra, Shakti and P. S. Sidhu. A Choice of Short Stories. OUP, 2006.

Chatterjee, D. and S. K. Prasad. A Choice of Prose. OUP, 2005.

Kaushik, R.K. and S.C. Bhatia.,ed.Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays. OUP, 2006.

Kumar, Shiv K., ed. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. OUP, 2005.

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

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

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna., ed. A Concise History of Indian Literature in English.Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

 

Academic Year: