Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 202
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To enable the students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works as avenues of creativity
  • To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, , point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language

 

9.00
Unit I: 

Jonathan Swift

On Style

 

Oliver Goldsmith

National Prejudices

9.00
Unit II: 

Charles Lamb

Dream Children: A Reverie

 

William Hazlitt       

Common Sense

9.00
Unit III: 

Nathaniel Hawthorne    

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment 

 

John Galsworthy

Quality

 

H. G. Wells

The Apple

8.00
Unit IV: 

O. Henry  

 The Gift of the Magi

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Dying Detective

 

H.H. Munro  

 The Open Window

10.00
Unit V: 
George Eliot

Silas Marner

Source Books: 

English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1. Macmillan, 1993.

Kumar, Shashi and Paul Gunshekhar. An Anthology of Short Stories. Orient Longman, 2003.

Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. OUP, 1998.

Popular Short Stories. OUP, 2002

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP, 2008.

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.

Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020