Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 314
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

Objective : To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers 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: 

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

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

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Allot, K. and M. Farris. The Art of Graham Greene. London: Columbia University Press, 1966. Print.

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

Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1961. Print.

Daiches, David. Virginia Woolf. Norfolk: New Directions, 1942. Print.

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

Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1962. Print.

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

Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. New York: Viking, 1921. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018