Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 402
Credits: 
3
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.
H. Belloc                           On an Educational Reform
Aldous Huxley                         Pleasures
Gilbert Highet                     Wonders are Many
J. B. Priestley                           In Crimson Silk
Ernest Hemingway                         Old Man at the Bridge
Alan Sillitoe                              On Sturday Afternoon
Kewlian Sio                                Let's Go Home
Joyce Cary                                 Growing Up
Maxim Gorky                                  the Mother of a Traitor
Liam O' Flaherty                               The Reaping Race
 
Unit V: 
George Orwell

Animal Farm

Source Books: 
  1. Spectrum –An Anthology of Short Stories Edited by J. Sasikumar, Paul Gunashekar (Orient Longman)
  2. The Art of the Essayist (ed. C. H. Lockitt)
  3. A Choice of Short Stories OUP, 2006 (Ed. By Shakti Batra & P.S. Sidhu)
  4. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today ed. by Shiv K. Kumar (OUP)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Anatomy of Prose by M. Boulton (OUP)
  2. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students by L. G. Alexander
  3. Dictionary of Allusions (OUP)
Academic Year: 
2015-2016