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Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)
The Course will enable the students to recognise the variety of new poetic voices from the 20th century, examine the historical background including the socio-cultural changes in the aftermath of World War, identify the literary trends, techniques and issues in British literature in the early 20th century and develop skills to interpret and critique the modernist canon.
W. B. Yeats
Easter 1916
A Bronze Head
Sailing to Byzantium
The Second Coming
Lapis Lazuli
W.H. Auden
Sir, No Man’s Enemy
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
September 1, 1939
O for doors to be open
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
G. B. Shaw
Pygmalion
John Osborne
Look Back in Anger
Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature.3rd ed. Norton Anthology, 1983.
Woodhead, Chris. Ed. Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturyVerse. NewYork : OUP, 1984.
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
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The students will: CO79. Evaluate the various literary and social provocations at work in the texts prescribed, with an enhanced understanding of literary texts and social structures CO80. Assess the cultural, political and stylistic protocols of modernism and its various literary movements CO81. Analyse issues such as politics, history, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender, have been explored in 20th century poetry and drama CO82. Appraise the main characteristics of the Twentieth Century Poetry CO83. Develop an understanding of the cultural, political and thematic protocols of modernism and its various literary movements |