Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 102
Credits: 
2
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Objectives

  1. To enable students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works as avenues of creativity
  2. To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction & short stories, viz. structure, dialogue, mood, setting, scenes, language, etc.

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Francis Bacon

Of Youth and Age

Of Studies

 

Abraham Cowley     

Of Solitude      

8.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

 Joseph Addison

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

 

Richard Steele

The Art of Conversation

 

Samuel Johnson

 Praises of Solitude

8.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Washington Irving       

Adventures of the German Student

            

Edgar Allan Poe

Some Words with a Mummy

 

Guy de Maupassant

The Necklace

8.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Leo Tolstoy

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

Anton Chekhov     

A Work of Art

 

Oscar Wilde         

The Model Millionaire   

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Jane Austen      

Pride and Prejudice    

Source Books: 
  • English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1.Macmillan: London, 1893. Print.
  • Popular Short Stories. Oxford UP : London, 2002.Print.
  • Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today.OUP: UK, 1998. Print.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP: UK, 2008. Print.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning: Boston, 2014. Print.
  • Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.Print.
Academic Year: 
2015-2016