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Reading Prose and Fiction
Course Objectives:
The course will enable the students to:
- Appraise a variety of prose and fictional works
- Evaluate and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
- Determine the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language
Course Outcomes
The students will:
- Appraise a variety of prose and fictional works
- Evaluate and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
- Determine the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language
Francis Bacon
Of Youth and Age
Of Studies
Abraham Cowley
Of Solitude
Joseph Addison
Meditations in Westminster Abbey
Richard Steele
The Art of Conversation
Samuel Johnson
Praises of Solitude
Washington Irving
Adventures of the German Student
Edgar Allan Poe
Some Words with a Mummy
Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace
Leo Tolstoy
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Anton Chekhov
A Work of Art
Oscar Wilde
The Model Millionaire
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Source Books:
English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1.Macmillan, 1893.
Popular Short Stories. Oxford UP, 2002.
Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. OUP, 1998.
Suggested Readings:
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.
Boulton, Majorie. Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP, 2008.
Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge& Kegan Paul, 1982.