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Reading Prose and Fiction [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 202
Credits: 
3
Objective: 

1.    To enable the students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works as avenues of creativity

To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction & short stories, viz. structure, dialogue, mood, setting, scenes, language, etc

Jonathan Swift                 On Style

Oliver Goldsmith             National Prejudices 

 

Charles Lamb             Dream Children: A Reverie 

William Hazlitt            Common Sense 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne                 Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment 

John Galsworthy                          Quality

H. G. Wells                                  The Apple

 

O. Henry                               The Gift of the Magi

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle           The Dying Detective

H.H. Munro                           The Open Window

 

George Eliot                               Silas Marner

Source Books: 
  • English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1. Oxford UP.
  • Popular Short Stories. Oxford UP.
  • An Anthology of Short Stories. University of Allahabad: OUP.
  • Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

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

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

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