Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 602
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will be able to:

CO51.Develop creative expression through a variety of prose and fictional works

CO52.Evaluate and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works

CO53.Analyse the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language

CO54.Interpret various styles of Indian essays in English with reference to representative works

CO55.Discriminate between styles of Indian English short story writing with reference to representative works
 

 

8.00
Unit I: 

C. Subrahmanya Bharathi

The Place of Woman

 

S. Radhakrishnan

Democracy

 

Raja Rao

Narsiga

            

8.00
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: 

Kartar Singh Duggal                               

Miracle

 

Manohar Malgonkar

Two Red Roosters

Rudyard Kipling                                       

Rikki – Tikki – Tavi

 

9.00
Unit IV: 

Munshi Premchand

The Child

 

Bhisham Sahni

The Boss Came to Dinner

 

Prabhat K. Mukhopadhyay

The Muscular Son-in-Law

 

11.00
Unit V: 

Kamala Markandaya

The Nowhere Man

 

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: 
2023-2024