Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 422
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Familiarize themselves with 20th century literature and its salient features
    • Understand the socio-cultural milieu of the time as well as the  trends and individual style of the representative writers

 

Course Learning Outcomes

The students will be able to:

  •  Gain a better understanding of literary works using the appropriate theoretical, historical, and cultural apparatus
  •  Acquire knowledge of a wide range of narrative techniques, style and treatment, as seen to be used in the selected prose and fictional works
10.00
Unit I: 

Aldous Huxley

Selected Snobberies

Non Violence

 

J.B. Priestley

Student Mobs

On Doing Nothing

 

E.V. Lucas

A Funeral

Bores

 

13.00
Unit II: 
Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

 

12.00
Unit III: 
James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

 

13.00
Unit IV: 
D.H. Lawrence

The Rainbow

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Bhatnagar, Manmohan K., ed. Twentieth Century Literature in English. Atlantic Publishers, 2000.
  • Bradbury, Malcolm.The Modern British Novel. Penguin, 2001.
  • Ellman, Richard. James Joyce. Viking, 1982.
  • Ferrer, Daniel. Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language (Routledge Library Editions: Virginia Woolf Book 3). Routledge,  2018.
  • Parsons , Deborah. Ed. Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf (Routledge Critical Thinkers). Routledge, 2006.
  • Stringer, Jenny. Ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. OUP, 1996.

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021