Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 314
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Acquaint themselves with the emerging literary techniques of 20th century prose and fiction focusing on the emerging issues of the modern age
  • Gain a detailed literary and thematic understanding of 20th century prose and fiction
  • Understand techniques such as psychoanalysis and stream of consciousness

 

 

7.00

Aldous Huxley                                                             

Selected Snobberies

 

J.B. Priestley                                                                 

On Doing Nothing

In Crimson Silk

 

7.00

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

                                            

 

 

11.00

E. M. Forster                                                                  

A Passage to India

 

Source Books: 

Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist: Longman, 1949.

Williams, Emrys William. Ed. A Book of English Essays. Pelican, 1970.

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M. H.  A Glossary of Literary Terms.  7th ed.  Heinle, 1999.

Allot, K. and M. Farris. The Art of Graham Greene. Columbia UP, 1966.

Bennett, Joan. Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist. CUP, 1945.

Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Daiches, David. Virginia Woolf. New Directions, 1942.

Ford, Boris. Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From James to Eliot

Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Penguin, 1962.

Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and his World: Criterion Books, 1953.

Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. Viking, 1921.

 

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