Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 302
Credits: 
3
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.

 

R.L. Stevenson                 El Dorado

Bertrand Russell               Machines and Emotions

 

E.V. Lucas                                  Third Thoughts

G.K. Chesterton                          The Adventures of Having One Leg 

 

Lu Xun                                   Kong Yiji

Katherine Mansfield                 A Cup of Tea

William Somerset Maugham     The Ant and the Grasshopper

 

Morley Callaghan                      The Snob

Chinua Achebe                         Marriage is a Private Affair

Emily Gaboriau                        The Accursed House

 

Thomas Hardy                              The Mayor of Casterbridge

Source Books: 
  • Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist: London: Longman, 1949.
  •  Sasikumar , Java and Gunasheka, Paul.  Spectrum- An Anthology of Short Stories . Hyderabad : Orient Longman Private Limited,1974.
  • Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Boulton , Majorie. Anatomy of Prose. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968
  • Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Longman, 1970.
  • Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. . London: Oxford University Press, 2001.