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Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)
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The students will: CO 116. Evaluate literary works using the appropriate theoretical, historical, and cultural apparatus CO 117. Acquire knowledge of a wide range of narrative techniques, style and treatment, as seen to be used in the selected prose and fictional works CO 118. Appraise the socio-cultural and political milieu of the age CO 119. Examine the later trends and techniques of 20th century prose and fiction CO 120. Critically appreciate the literary works deeply and relate them to various literary movements in vogue during the century
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Approach in teaching: Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation Learning activities for the students: Report-writing, Seminar-presentation |
Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce |
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Aldous Huxley Selected Snobberies Non Violence
J.B. Priestley Student Mobs On Doing Nothing
E.V. Lucas A Funeral Bores
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Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D.H. Lawrence
The Rainbow
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, 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.
e-resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssc7OuQ4iU4. History of English Language and Literature by Prof.Merin Simi Raj Dept. Of Humanities & Social Sciences IIT Madras.
Journals:
Twentieth Century Literature by Duke University Press.