Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 302
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

Objectives:

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

 

7.00

R.L. Stevenson  

El Dorado

    

Bertrand Russell          

Machines and Emotions

 

9.00

E.V. Lucas                

Third Thoughts 

 

G.K. Chesterton      

The Adventures of Having One Leg               

 

8.00

Lu Xun            

Kong Yiji  

   

Katherine Mansfield      

A Cup of Tea 

        

William Somerset Maugham                

The Ant and the Grasshopper       

9.00

Morley Callaghan 

The Snob

 

Chinua Achebe       

Marriage is a Private Affair

 

Emily Gaboriau

The Accursed House

 

12.00

Thomas Hardy    

The Mayor of Casterbridge    

 

Source Books: 

Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. London: Longman, 1949.Print.

Sasikumar, Java and Gunasheka, Paul. Spectrum- An Anthology of Short Stories. Hyderabad : Orient Longman Private Limited,1974. Print.

Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Prose. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1968. Print.

Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Longman, 1970.Print.

Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. . London: Oxford University Press, 2001.Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018