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Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-II
The course will enable the students to:
- Acquaint themselves with the socio-cultural and political milieu of the age
- Be familiar with the later trends and techniques of twentieth century prose and fiction
- Gain a more comprehensive literary and thematic understanding of twentieth century prose and fiction
E.V. Lucas
A Funeral
On Finding Things
V.S. Pritchett
The Dean
Gibbon and the Home Guard
George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant
A Hanging
Why I Write
Somerset Maugham
The Mother
James Thurber
The Night the Ghost Got In
The Night the Bed Fell
Colin Howard
Post Haste
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
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.