• 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.
Ted Hughes
Apprehensions
St. Botolph’s
Full Moon and Little Frieda
Seamus Heaney
Whatever you say, say nothing
Punishment
Casualty
Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings
Maiden Name
I Remember, I Remember
Thom Gunn
On The Move
Autumn Chapter
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Harold Pinter
The Homecoming
Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Chaterjee, Sisir. Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 1999. Print.
Draper, Ronald P, ed. The Literature of Region and Nation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989. Print.
Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Print.
Marwick, Arthur. British Society since 1945. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982. Print.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. London: Faber & Faber, 1994. Print.
Quigley, Austin.The Modern Stage and Other Words. London: Routledge, 2014. Print.
Scigaj, Leonard M. Critical Essays on Ted Hughes. New York : G.K. Hall, 2000. Print.
Links:
[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/contemporary-british-literature-5
[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2017-2018