Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 402
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

Objectives:

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

 

9.00

H. Belloc      

On an Educational Reform 

       

Aldous Huxley 

Pleasures

 

Gilbert Highet     

Wonders are Many                                                                                         

9.00

J. B. Priestley                                           

 In Crimson Silk

 

Ernest Hemingway                                  

Old Man at the Bridge

7.00

Alan Sillitoe                                              

On Saturday Afternoon

 

Kewlian Sio                                              

Let’s Go Home

 

 Joyce Cary                                                

Growing Up

 

7.00

Maxim Gorky                                                                               

The Mother of a Traitor

 

 Liam O’ Flaherty                                          

 The Reaping Race

 

13.00

George Orwell                                                            

Animal Farm

 

Source Books: 

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

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

Batra , Shakti and  Sidhu, P.S. Ed. . Choice of Short Stories. London: Oxford University Press, 1997. Print.

Kumar, Shiv. Ed. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. London: Oxford University Press, 1998. 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