Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 302
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will be able to:

  1. Develop creative expression through 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

  

 

9.00

R.L. Stevenson  

El Dorado

 

Bertrand Russell          

Machines and Emotions

 

8.00

E.V. Lucas                

Third Thoughts 

 

G.K. Chesterton      

The Advantages of Having One Leg               

 

8.00

Lu Xun

Kong Yiji

 

Katherine Mansfield      

A Cup of Tea 

 

William Somerset Maugham                

The Ant and the Grasshopper      

 

8.00

Morley Callaghan 

The Snob

 

Chinua Achebe       

Marriage is a Private Affair

 

Émile Gaboriau

The Accursed House

 
 

 

12.00

Thomas Hardy    

The Mayor of Casterbridge

 

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Longman, 1949.

Sasikumar, Java and Gunasheka, Paul. Spectrum- An Anthology of Short Stories. Orient Longman Private Limited,1974.

Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.

 

 

Suggested Readings:

Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. Longman, 1970.

Boulton, Marjorie. Anatomy of Prose.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1968.

Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtpEz5GRc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxWY1eJU1w

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023