Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 414
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

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: 

Batra, Shakti and P. S. Sidhu, eds. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. New Delhi: OUP, 2006. Print.

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. Print.

Orwell, G. Inside the Whale and Other Essays. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Booth, W. Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1961. Print.

Brander, Lawrence. George Orwell .London: Longman, 1904. Print.

Ford, Boris, Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot) Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. Print.

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

Hollis, Christopher: A Study of George Orwell. London: Hollis and Carter, 1956. Print.

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

 

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