Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 602
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
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
S. Radhakrishnan                                      Democracy
Jim Corbett                                                A Shot in the Dark
W.H. Hudson                                            The Samphire Gatherer 
 
9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
Rabindranath Tagore                                 Co-operation
Jawaharlal Nehru                                       Testament
 
9.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
Kartar Singh Duggal                                  Miracle
Manohar Malgonkar                                  Two Red Roosters 
Rudyard Kipling                                         Rikki – Tikki – Tavi 
 
Unit IV: 
Unit IV
Premchand                                               The Child
Bhishma Sahni                                         The Boss Came to Dinner
Prabhat K. Mukhopadhyay                       The Muscular Son-in-Law
 
9.00
Unit V: 
Unit V
Rama Mehta Inside the Haveli
 
Source Books: 
1. A Choice of Short Stories, OUP,2006 (Edited by Shakti Batra and P.S. Sidhu)
2. A Choice of Prose, OUP – D. Chatterjee, S. K. Prasad
3. English Prose Selection (OUP)
4. Three Plays by Girish Karnad
5. Language Through Literature (OUP)
 
Academic Year: 
2014-2015