Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 314
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Apprise themselves with the emerging literary techniques of 20th century prose and fiction focusing on the emerging issues of the modern age
  • Develop a detailed literary and thematic understanding of 20th century prose and fiction
  • Experiment with techniques such as psychoanalysis and stream of consciousness
7.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Aldous Huxley                                                           

Selected Snobberies

 

J.B. Priestley                                                              

On Doing Nothing

In Crimson Silk

7.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Robert Lynd                                                               

The Pleasures of Ignorance

On Not Being a Philosopher

The Chocolate Bus

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Graham Greene                                                        

The Power and the Glory

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Virginia Woolf                                                           

To the Lighthouse

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022