Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 602
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 Indian essays in English with reference to representative works
  5. Discriminate between styles of Indian English 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

  

 

8.00

C. Subrahmanya Bharathi

The Place of Woman

 

S. Radhakrishnan

 Democracy

 

Jawaharlal Nehru                                      

Testament

 

8.00

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

Kartar Singh Duggal                               

Miracle

 

Manohar Malgonkar

Two Red Roosters

 

Rudyard Kipling                                       

Rikki – Tikki – Tavi

 
 

 

9.00

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:

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.

 

E-Resources:

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

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023