Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 314
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
 
8.00
Aldous Huxley
Selected Snobberies
 
J.B. Priestley
On Doing Nothing
In Crimson Silk
8.00
Robert Lynd
The Pleasures of Ignorance
On Not Being a Philosopher
The Chocolate Bus
 
10.00
Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory
 
10.00
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
9.00
E. M. Forster
A Passage to India
Source Books: 
  1. A Book of English Essays (Pelican)
  2. The Art Of the Essayist by C.H.Lockitt(ed)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot)
  2. G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and his World
  3. Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
  4. W. Booth : Rhetoric of Fiction
  5. Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
  6. David Daiches : Virginia Woolf
  7. K. Allot and M. Farris : The Art of Graham Greene
  8. J. Madaube : Graham Greene (Paris, 1949)
  9. Joan Bennett : Virginia Woolf – Her Art as a Novelist (Cambridge ,1945)
  10. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  11. B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
  12. Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (Edward Arnold and Co., London. Reprinted by Penguin
  13. Walter Earnest,Allen.Tradition and Dream:The English and American Novel from Twenties to our time.London