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Reading Prose and Fiction [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 202
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will be able to:

  1. Develop creative expression through a variety of prose and fictional works
  2. Evaluate and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
  3. Determine the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language
  4. Interpret various styles of essays with reference to representative works
  5. Discriminate between styles of short story writing with reference to representative works

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

 

 

9.00

Jonathan Swift

On Style

 

Oliver Goldsmith

National Prejudices

 

9.00

Charles Lamb

Dream Children: A Reverie

 

William Hazlitt       

Common Sense

9.00

Nathaniel Hawthorne    

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment 

 

John Galsworthy

Quality

 

H. G. Wells

The Apple

 

8.00

O. Henry  

 The Gift of the Magi

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Dying Detective

 

H.H. Munro  

 The Open Window

 

10.00

George Eliot

Silas Marner

 

Source Books: 

Source Books:

English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1.Macmillan, 1893.

Popular Short Stories. OUP, 2002.

Kumar, Shashi and Paul Gunshekhar. An Anthology of Short Stories. Orient Longman, 2003.

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

 

Suggested Readings:

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

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

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

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVBKSgGlMN8 [2]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ncTQck-EfZw [3]

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023 [4]

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Links:
[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/reading-prose-and-fiction-50
[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVBKSgGlMN8
[3] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ncTQck-EfZw
[4] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2022-2023