Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 102
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will be able to:

  1. Appraise a variety of prose and fictional works
  2. Evaluate and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
  3. Determine the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language
  4. Interpret various styles of essays with reference to representative works
  5. Discriminate between styles of short story writing with reference to representative works

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

  

 

10.00

Francis Bacon

Of Youth and Age

Of Studies

 

Abraham Cowley    

Of Solitude      

 

9.00

Joseph Addison

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

 

Richard Steele

The Art of Conversation

 

Samuel Johnson

 Praises of Solitude

 

7.00

Washington Irving      

Adventures of the German Student

 

Edgar Allan Poe

Some Words with a Mummy

 

Guy de Maupassant

The Necklace

 

7.00

Leo Tolstoy

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

Anton Chekhov    

A Work of Art

 

Oscar Wilde        

The Model Millionaire     

 

12.00

Jane Austen     

Pride and Prejudice     

Source Books: 

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.

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023