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Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose and Fiction) [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 422
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Familiarize themselves with 20th century literature and its salient features
  • Understand the socio-cultural milieu of the time as well as the  trends and individual style of the representative writers

 

 

10.00
Unit I: 

Aldous Huxley

Selected Snobberies

Non Violence

 

J.B. Priestley

Student Mobs

On Doing Nothing

 

E.V. Lucas

A Funeral

Bores

13.00
Unit II: 

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

12.00
Unit III: 

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

13.00
Unit IV: 

D.H. Lawrence

The Rainbow

12.00
Unit V: 

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Bhatnagar, Manmohan K., ed. Twentieth Century Literature in English. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2000.Print.

Bradbury, Malcolm.The Modern British Novel. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2001. Print.

Ellman, Richard. James Joyce. New York: Viking, 1982. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020 [2]

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