Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 414
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
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
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

Inside the Whale

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 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.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020