Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 402
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. Analyse 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:

Searching-selecting technique, Inferring, Teaching Vocabulary, Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Practical in form of projects

 

Assignments, Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

9.00

H. Belloc      

On an Educational Reform 

 

Aldous Huxley 

Pleasures

 

Gilbert Highet

Wonders are Many              

 

9.00

Robert Lynd

The Student

 

Herbert Read

The Poet and the Film

 

J. B. Priestley                                           

In Crimson Silk

 

7.00

Alan Sillitoe

On Saturday Afternoon

 

Kewlian Sio

Let’s Go Home

 

Joyce Cary                                                

Growing Up

 

7.00

Maxim Gorky                                                          

The Mother of a Traitor

 

Liam O’ Flaherty                                          

 The Reaping Race

 

Ernest Hemingway                                  

Old Man at the Bridge

 

13.00

George Orwell                                                            

Animal Farm

 
 

 

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Batra , Shakti and  Sidhu, P.S. Ed. . Choice of Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Kumar, Shiv. Ed. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. Oxford University Press, 1998.

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

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

 

Suggested Readings:

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

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

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

 

Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPsp7sP5ud8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BFP1IMyKyy4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XXkicQRl6vg

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023