Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 414
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will:

  1. Appraise the socio-cultural and political milieu of the age
  2. Investigate the later trends and techniques of 20th century British prose and fiction
  3. Develop a more comprehensive literary and thematic understanding of age and representative texts
  4. Demonstrate critical skills to trace the ideas of the 'modern' mindset and the cultural transition
  5. Apply the aesthetic and utilitarian handling of prose in the hands of 20th century writers

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, presentations

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

 

 

 

  

 

8.00

E.V. Lucas                                                    

A Funeral

On Finding Things

 

V.S. Pritchett                                                

The Dean

Gibbon and the Home Guard

 
 

 

7.00

George Orwell                                              

Shooting an Elephant

A Hanging

Why I Write

 
 

 

10.00

Somerset Maugham                                     

The Mother

 

James Thurber                                             

The Night the Ghost Got In

The Night the Bed Fell

 

Colin Howard                                               

Post Haste

 
 

 

10.00

D.H. Lawrence                                             

Sons and Lovers

 
 

 

10.00

Aldous Huxley                                              

Brave New World

 
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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.

 

 

e-Resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVVQkHrscw (The Modernist Movement)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy3buTgZuLg (Sons and Lovers)

 

Journals:

Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures

Annals of Language and Literature

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023