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Reading Prose and Fiction [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 102
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To enable students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works.
  • To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction & short stories, viz. structure, dialogue, mood, setting, scenes, language, etc.

 

9.00
Unit I: 

Francis Bacon

Of Youth and Age

Of Studies

 

Abraham Cowley    

Of Solitude     

8.00
Unit II: 

Joseph Addison

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

 

Richard Steele

The Art of Conversation

 

Samuel Johnson

 Praises of Solitude

8.00
Unit III: 

Washington Irving      

Adventures of the German Student

           

Edgar Allan Poe

Some Words with a Mummy

 

Guy de Maupassant

The Necklace

8.00
Unit IV: 

Leo Tolstoy

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

Anton Chekhov    

A Work of Art

 

Oscar Wilde        

The Model Millionaire     

              

Unit V: 

Jane Austen     

Pride and Prejudice    

Source Books: 
  • English Prose Selections for B.A. Part - 1.Macmillan: London, 1893. Print.
  • Popular Short Stories. Oxford UP : London, 2002.Print.
  • Kumar, Shiv K. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today.OUP: UK, 1998. Print.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP: UK, 2008. Print.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning: Boston, 2014. Print .
  • Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017 [2]

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