Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 422
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • Identify 20th century literature and its salient features
  • Analyse the socio-cultural milieu of the time as well as the  trends and individual style of the representative writers

 

Course Outcomes-

The students will:

  • Evaluate 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
  • Appraise the socio-cultural and political milieu of the age
  • Examine the later trends and techniques of 20th century prose and fiction

 

10.00
Unit I: 
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: 
Unit II

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

 

13.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

D.H. Lawrence

The Rainbow

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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, 2018.

Pearsons, Deborah. Ed. Theorists of the Modernist Novel : James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. Routledge, 2006.

Stringer, Jenny. Ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English. OUP, 1996.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022