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Reading Prose and Fiction
Course Objectives:
The course will enable the students to:
- Analyse a range of prose and fictional works
- Evaluate the 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:
- Develop creative expression through 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
Jonathan Swift
On Style
Oliver Goldsmith
National Prejudices
Charles Lamb
Dream Children: A Reverie
William Hazlitt
Common Sense
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
John Galsworthy
Quality
H. G. Wells
The Apple
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Dying Detective
H.H. Munro
The Open Window
George Eliot
Silas Marner
Source Books:
English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1.Macmillan, 1893.
Popular Short Stories. OUP, 2002.
Kumar, Shashi and Paul Gunshekhar. An Anthology of Short Stories. Orient Longman, 2003.
Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. OUP, 1998.
Suggested Readings:
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.
Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP, 2008.
Boulton, Marjorie. Anatomy of Poetry.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.