Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 314
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
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 writers and their individual traits

 

8.00
Unit I: 

Aldous Huxley                                                             

Selected Snobberies

 

J.B. Priestley                                                                 

On Doing Nothing

In Crimson Silk

8.00
Unit II: 

Robert Lynd                                                                  

The Pleasures of Ignorance

On Not Being a Philosopher

The Chocolate Bus

10.00
Unit III: 

Graham Greene                                                           

The Power and the Glory 

10.00
Unit IV: 

Virginia Woolf                                                             

To the Lighthouse

9.00
Unit V: 

 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.
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