Twentieth Century English Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 414
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

8.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

E.V. Lucas 

A Funeral

On Finding Things

 

V.S. Pritchett    

The Dean

10.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant

Inside the Whale

7.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Somerset Maugham       

The Mother

 

James Thurber  

The Night the Ghost Got In

 

Colin Howard    

Post Haste

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

D.H. Lawrence 

Sons and Lovers

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Source Books: 
  • G. Orwell : Inside the Whale and Other Essays

•     Short Stories of Yesterday and Today ed.by Shakti Batra and P. S. Sidhu (OUP)

•     Forms of English Prose: An Anthology of English Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays for B.A. Students (Dept. Of English and M.E.L., Lucknow Univ., OUP)

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot)
  • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and his World
  • Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
  • W. Booth : Rhetoric of Fiction
  • Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
  • Lawrence Brander : George Orwell (London 1904)
  • Christopher Hollis : A Study of George Orwell (London 1956)
  • Essays (ed.) W.E. Williams
Academic Year: 
2014-2015