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 |
W. B. Yeats Easter 1916 A Bronze Head Sailing to Byzantium The Second Coming Lapis Lazuli
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W.H. Auden Sir, No Man’s Enemy In Memory of W. B. Yeats September 1, 1939 O for doors to be open
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T. S. Eliot The Waste Land |
Pygmalion
John Osborne
Look Back in Anger
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