Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-II

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

The students will:

CO93.  Appraise the socio-cultural and political milieu of the age

CO94.  Investigate the later trends and techniques of 20th century British prose and fiction

CO95.  Develop a more comprehensive literary and thematic understanding of age and representative texts

CO96.  Demonstrate critical skills to trace the ideas of the 'modern' mindset and the cultural transition

CO97. Apply the aesthetic and utilitarian handling of prose in the hands of 20th century writers

8.00
Unit I: 

E.V. Lucas

A Funeral

On Finding Things

 

V.S. Pritchett                                                 

The Dean

Gibbon and the Home Guard

 

7.00
Unit II: 

George Orwell                                               

Shooting an Elephant

A Hanging

Why I Write

 

10.00
Unit III: 

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: 

D.H. Lawrence                                               

Sons and Lovers

10.00
Unit V: 

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.

 

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: 
2023-2024