Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 102
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To enable students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works
  • To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, , point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language
10.00
Unit I: 

Francis Bacon

Of Youth and Age

Of Studies

 

Abraham Cowley    

Of Solitude     

9.00
Unit II: 

 Joseph Addison

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

 

Richard Steele

The Art of Conversation

 

Samuel Johnson

 Praises of Solitud

7.00
Unit III: 

Washington Irving      

Adventures of the German Student

           

Edgar Allan Poe

Some Words with a Mummy

 

Guy de Maupassant

The Necklace

7.00
Unit IV: 

Leo Tolstoy

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

Anton Chekhov    

A Work of Art

 

Oscar Wilde        

The Model Millionaire     

              

12.00
Unit V: 
Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice    

Source Books: 

English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1. Macmillan, 1993.

Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today. OUP, 1998.

Popular Short Stories. OUP, 2002.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP, 2008.

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.

Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020