Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 314
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
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
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Aldous Huxley

Selected Snobberies

 

J.B.Priestley

On Doing Nothing

In Crimson Silk

 

8.00
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

9.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

E.M. Forster

A Passage to India

Source Books: 
  • A Book of English Essays (Pelican)
  • The Art of the Essayist by C.H. Lockitt (ed)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (from James to Eliot)
  • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and his World
  • Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
  • W. Booth : Rhetoric of Fiction
  • Hugh Walker : English Essays and Essayists
  • David Daiches : Virginia Woolf
  • K. Allot and M. Farris : The Art of Graham Greene
  • Joan Bennett : Virginia Woolf : Her Art as a Novelist (Cambridge, 1945)
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
  • Aspects of the Novel by E.M Forster (Edward Arnold and Co., London. Reprinted by Penguin
  • Walter Earnest, Allen. Tradition and Dream: The English and the American Novel, from Twenties to our time. London.
Academic Year: 
2014-2015