Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 322
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

The students will:

CO 66. Evaluate the various literary and social provocations at work in the texts prescribed, with an enhanced understanding of literary texts and social structures

CO 67. Acquire knowledge of the cultural, political and stylistic protocols of modernism and its various literary movements

CO 68. Critically analyse issues such as politics, history, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender, have been explored in 20th century poetry and drama

CO 69. Evaluate the main characteristics of the Twentieth Century Poetry

CO 70. Develop and understanding of the cultural, political and thematic protocols of modernism and its various literary movements

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Report-writing, Seminar-presentation

Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce

 

13.00

W. B. Yeats

Easter 1916

A Bronze Head

Sailing to Byzantium

The Second Coming

Lapis Lazuli

 

 

 

11.00

W.H. Auden

Sir, No Man’s Enemy

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

September 1, 1939

O for doors to be open

 

 

 

15.00

T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land

 

 

10.00

 

 

G. B. Shaw
 

Pygmalion

11.00
 

John Osborne

Look Back in Anger

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Books:

Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature.3rd ed. Norton Anthology, 1983.

Woodhead, Chris. Ed. Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturyVerse. NewYork : OUP, 1984.

 

Suggested Readings:

Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and His World. Praeer Publishers, 1964. Print.

Gish, Nancy K. The Wasteland: A Poem of Memory and Desire. Twayne Publishers, 1988.

Routh, H.V. Towards the 20th Century: Essays in the Spiritual History. Macmillan, 1983. Print.

Tomar, Vipin. The 20th Century English Literature: A Survey of Poetry, Drama, Fiction and Criticism. Swastik Publications.2012.

Unwin,Stephen, and Carole Woddis. A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama. Faber, 2001.

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4G45F9pw (Eliot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tAlz2hLt3A (Shaw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8gT1ho9Gf0 (Osborne)

 

Journals:

College English

Twentieth-Century Literature

 

Academic Year: