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Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)
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.
Aldous Huxley
Selected Snobberies
Non Violence
J.B. Priestley
Student Mobs
On Doing Nothing
E.V. Lucas
A Funeral
Bores
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
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.
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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.