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Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 314
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  • To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
     
8.00

Aldous Huxley    
Selected Snobberies

J.B. Priestley    
On Doing Nothing
In Crimson Silk
 

8.00

Robert Lynd    
The Pleasures of Ignorance
On Not Being a Philosopher
The Chocolate Bus
 

10.00

Graham Greene      
The Power and the Glory 

10.00

Virginia Woolf    
To the Lighthouse

9.00

E. M. Forster    
A Passage to India

Source Books: 
  1. Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist: London: Longman, 1949.
  2. Williams, Emrys William. Ed. A Book of English Essays. London: Pelican, 1970.
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Abrams, M. H.  A Glossary of Literary Terms.  7th ed.  Boston:  Heinle, 1999.
  2. Allot, K. and M. Farris. The Art of Graham Greene. London: Columbia University Press, 1966.
  3. Bennett, Joan. Virginia Woolf – Her Art as a Novelist. Cambridge: CUP, 1945.
  4. Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1961.
  5. Daiches, David. Virginia Woolf. Norfolk: New Directions, 1942.
  6. Ford, Boris. Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot)
  7. Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1962.
  8. Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and his World: New York: Criterion Books, 1953.
  9. Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. New York: Viking, 1921.
  10. Meyers, Jeffrey. Joseph Conard: A Biography. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001
  11. Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1965.
  12. Said, Edward. Joseph Conard and the Fiction of Autobiography. London: Columbia University Press, 2008.
  13. Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.
  14. Walter Earnest, Allen. Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from Twenties to our time. London: Hogarth Press, 1986.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017 [2]

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