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Reading Prose and Fiction
Course Objectives:
The course will enable the students to:
- Assess and critically appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works
- Evaluate the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
- Analyse 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
- Analyse the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language
C. SubrahmanyaBharathi
The Place of Woman
S. Radhakrishnan
Democracy
Jawaharlal Nehru
Testament
Jim Corbett
A Shot in the Dark
NabaneetaDevSen
“Women Writing in India at the Turn of the Century”
(fromGrowing up as a Woman Writer)
Kartar Singh Duggal
Miracle
ManoharMalgonkar
Two Red Roosters
Rudyard Kipling
Rikki – Tikki – Tavi
MunshiPremchand
The Child
BhishamSahni
The Boss Came to Dinner
Prabhat K. Mukhopadhyay
The Muscular Son-in-Law
Kamala Markandaya
The Nowhere Man
Source Books:
Batra, Shakti and P.S. Sidhu., ed. A Choice of Short Stories, OUP, 2006.
Chatterjee, D. and S. K. Prasad. A Choice of Prose, OUP. K. G. Saur, 1996.
Suggested Readings:
Agnes, Flavia. Law and Gender inequality: The Politics of Women’s rights in India. Oxford University Press. 1999.
Barnabas, Sarla. Recent Commonwealth Literature. Prestige Books. 1989.
Chakravarti, Uma. Patriarchy. Stree Publishers, 2006.
Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa. Indian Writing in English. Sterling Publishers, 1984.