Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 414
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
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

E.V. Lucas    
A Funeral
On Finding Things

V.S. Pritchett    
The Dean
 

10.00

George Orwell    
Shooting an Elephant
Inside the Whale

7.00

Somerset Maugham    
The Mother

James Thurber    
The Night the Ghost Got In

Colin Howard    
Post Haste

10.00

D.H. Lawrence     
Sons and Lovers

10.00

Aldous Huxley    
Brave New World
 

Source Books: 
  1. Batra, Shakti and P. S. Sidhu, eds. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. New Delhi: OUP, 2006.
  2. Forms of English Prose: An Anthology of English Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays for B.A. Students (Dept. Of English and M.E.L.Lucknow: OUP.
  3. Orwell, G. Inside the Whale and Other Essays. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984.
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Booth, W. Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1961.
  2. Brander, Lawrence. George Orwell .London: Longman, 1904.
  3. Williams, W.E. Ed. Essays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1942.
  4. Ford, Boris, Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot) Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
  5. Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and his World. New York : Criterion Books, 1953
  6. Hollis, Christopher: A Study of George Orwell. London: Hollis and Carter, 1956.
  7. Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. New York: Viking, 1921
  8. Walker, Hugh: English Essay and Essayists. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017