Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 414
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Apprise themselves with the socio-cultural and political milieu of the age
  • Examine the later trends and techniques of twentieth century prose and fiction
  • Develop a more comprehensive literary and thematic understanding of twentieth century prose and fiction
8.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

E.V. Lucas 

A Funeral

On Finding Things

 

V.S. Pritchett                                                              

The Dean

Gibbon and the Home Guard

7.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

George Orwell                                                           

Shooting an Elephant

A Hanging

Why I Write

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Somerset Maugham                                                

The Mother

 

James Thurber                                                          

The Night the Ghost Got In

The Night the Bed Fell

 

Colin Howard                                                             

Post Haste

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

D.H. Lawrence                                                           

Sons and Lovers

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Aldous Huxley                                                           

Brave New World

Source Books: 

Batra, Shakti & P. S. Sidhu, eds. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. OUP, 2006.

Forms of English Prose: An Anthology of English Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays for B.A. Students (Dept. of English & M.E.L, Lucknow). OUP, 2002.

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

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Booth, W. Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago UP, 1961.

Brander, Lawrence. George Orwell.Longman, 1904.

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

Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and his World. Criterion Books, 1953.

Hollis, Christopher: A Study of George Orwell. Hollis& Carter, 1956.

Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction.Viking, 1921.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022