Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 602
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
 
  1. To enable students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works as avenues of creativity
  2. To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction & short stories, viz. structure, dialogue, mood, setting, scenes, language, etc.
 

 

8.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

C. Subrahmanya Bharathi

The Place of Woman

 

S. Radhakrishnan

 Democracy

 

Jawaharlal Nehru                                      

Testament

 

8.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Jim Corbett                                               

A Shot in the Dark

 

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

 “Women Writing in India at the Turn of the Century”                                

 (from Growing up as a Woman Writer)

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Kartar Singh Duggal                               

 Miracle

 

Manohar Malgonkar

Two Red Roosters

 

Rudyard Kipling                                       

Rikki – Tikki – Tavi

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Munshi Premchand

The Child

 

Bhisham Sahni

The Boss Came to Dinner

 

Prabhat K. Mukhopadhyay

The Muscular Son-in-Law

 

11.00

Kamala Markandaya

The Nowhere Man

 

Source Books: 

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: 

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.

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020