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Reading Prose and Fiction [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 602
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Course Outcomes: 

The students will be able to:

CO51. Develop creative expression through a variety of prose and fictional works

CO52. Evaluate and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works

CO53. Analyse the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language

CO54. Interpret various styles of Indian essays in English with reference to representative works

CO55. Discriminate between styles of Indian English short story writing with reference to representative works
 

 

8.00
Unit I: 

C. SubrahmanyaBharathi

The Place of Woman

 

S. Radhakrishnan

 Democracy

 

Raja Rao

Narsiga

 

8.00
Unit II: 

Jim Corbett                                               

A Shot in the Dark

 

NabaneetaDevSen

 “Women Writing in India at the Turn of the Century”                                

 (fromGrowing up as a Woman Writer)

 

9.00
Unit III: 

Kartar Singh Duggal                               

 Miracle

 

ManoharMalgonkar

Two Red Roosters

 

Rudyard Kipling                                       

Rikki – Tikki – Tavi

 

 

9.00
Unit IV: 

MunshiPremchand

The Child

 

BhishamSahni

The Boss Came to Dinner

 

Prabhat K. Mukhopadhyay

The Muscular Son-in-Law

 

11.00
Unit V: 

Kamala Markandaya

The Nowhere Man

 
 

 

Source Books: 

Batra, Shakti and P.S. Sidhu., ed. A Choice of Short Stories, OUP, 2006.

Chatterjee, D. and S. K. Prasad. A Choice of Prose, OUP. K. G. Saur, 1996.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Agnes, Flavia. Law and Gender inequality: The Politics of Women’s rights in India. Oxford University Press. 1999.

Barnabas, Sarla. Recent Commonwealth Literature. Prestige Books. 1989.

Chakravarti, Uma. Patriarchy. Stree Publishers, 2006.

Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa. Indian Writing in English. Sterling Publishers, 1984.

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtpEz5GRc [2]

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025 [3]

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[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtpEz5GRc
[3] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2024-2025