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Reading Prose and Fiction [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 202
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 
Objectives
1. To enable the students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works as avenues of creativity
2. To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction & short stories, viz. structure, dialogue, mood, setting, scenes, language, etc.
 
8.00
Unit I: 
Unit I
Oliver Goldsmith Natural Prejudices 
William Hazlitt Common Sense
Gilbert Highet Wonders are Many 
8.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
Bertrand Russell                                              Machines and Emotions
R.L. Stevenson                                                El Dorado
8.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
William Somerset Maugham The Ant and the Grasshopper
Guy de Maupassant The Necklace
H. G. Wells The Apple
8.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV
Liam O’ Flaherty The Reaping Race
Ernest Hemingway Old Man at the Bridge
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dying Detective
 
13.00
Unit V: 
Unit V
George Eliot                                                    Silas Marner
 
Source Books: 
1. English Prose Selections for B. A. Part-I  (OUP)
2. Popular Short Stories (OUP)
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
1. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms
2. A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams
3. The Anatomy of Prose by Marjorie Boulton 
Academic Year: 
2014-2015 [2]

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