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Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry and Drama) [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 322
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • Recognise the variety of new poetic voices from the 20th century
  • Examine the historical background including the socio-cultural changes in the aftermath of World War I
  • Identify the literary trends, techniques and issues in British literature in the early 20th century
  • Develop skills to interpret and critique the modernist canon

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

  • Evaluate the various literary and social provocations at work in the texts prescribed, with an enhanced understanding of literary texts and social structures
  • Acquire knowledge of the cultural, political and stylistic protocols of modernism and its various literary movements
  • Critically analyse issues such as politics, history, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender, have been explored in 20th century poetry and drama
  • Evaluate the main characteristics of the Twentieth Century Poetry

 

13.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

W. B. Yeats

Easter 1916

A Bronze Head

Sailing to Byzantium

The Second Coming

Lapis Lazuli

 

11.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

W.H. Auden

Sir, No Man’s Enemy

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

September 1, 1939

O for doors to be open

 

15.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land

 

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

G. B. Shaw

Pygmalion

 

Unit V: 
Unit V

John Osborne

Look Back in Anger

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature.3rd ed. Norton Anthology, 1983.

Woodhead, Chris. Ed. Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturyVerse. NewYork : OUP, 1984. 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and His World. Praeer Publishers, 1964. Print.

Gish, Nancy K. The Wasteland: A Poem of Memory and Desire. Twayne Publishers, 1988.

Routh, H.V. Towards the 20th Century: Essays in the Spiritual History. Macmillan, 1983. Print.

Tomar, Vipin. The 20th Century English Literature: A Survey of Poetry, Drama, Fiction and Criticism. Swastik Publications.2012.

Unwin,Stephen, and Carole Woddis. A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama. Faber, 2001.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022 [2]

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