Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 202
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  1. To enable the 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.
8.00
Johnathan 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
9.00
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                          
The Dying Detective
 
H.H. Munro
The Open Window
10.00

Silas Marner

Source Books: 
  • English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1. Oxford UP.
  • Popular Short Stories. Oxford UP.
  • An Anthology of Short Stories. University of Allahabad: OUP.
  • Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning.
  • Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Academic Year: 
2015-2016