Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
24ENG422
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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.

 

10.00
Unit I: 

Aldous Huxley

Selected Snobberies

Non Violence

 

J.B. Priestley

Student Mobs

On Doing Nothing

 

E.V. Lucas

A Funeral

Bores

 

12.00
Unit II: 

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

 

13.00

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, 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.

 

Journals:

Twentieth Century Literature by Duke University Press.

 

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.

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO115. Evaluate literary works using the appropriate theoretical, historical, and cultural apparatus

CO116. Examine a wide range of narrative techniques, style and treatment, as seen in the selected prose and fictional works

CO117. Appraise the socio-cultural and political milieu of the age

CO118. Assess the later trends and techniques of 20th century prose and fiction

CO119. Explore the prescribed literary works deeply and relate them to various literary movements in vogue during the century

CO120.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.