Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 422
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
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 writers and their individual traits.

 

10.00
Unit I: 

Aldous Huxley

Selected Snobberies

Non Violence

On Doing Nothing

 

J.B. Priestley

Student Mobs

 

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. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2000.Print.
  • Bradbury, Malcolm.The Modern British Novel. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2001. Print.
  • Ellman, Richard. James Joyce. New York: Viking, 1982. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017