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. G. Orwell : Inside the Whale and Other Essays
  2. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today ed.by Shakti Batra and P. S. Sidhu (OUP)
  3. 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 Univ., OUP)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot)
  2. G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and his World
  3. Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
  4. W. Booth : Rhetoric of Fiction
  5. Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
  6. Lawrence Brander : George Orwell (London 1904)
  7. Christopher Hollis : A Study of George Orwell (London 1956)
  8. Essays (ed.) W.E. Williams