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Reading Prose and Fiction [1]

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

The course will enable the students to:

  • Assess and critically appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works
  • Evaluate the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
  • Evaluate the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language

 

 

C. SubrahmanyaBharathi

The Place of Woman

 

S. Radhakrishnan

 Democracy

 

Jawaharlal Nehru                                      

Testament

Jim Corbett                                               

A Shot in the Dark

 

NabaneetaDevSen

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

 (fromGrowing up as a Woman Writer)

Kartar Singh Duggal                               

 Miracle

 

ManoharMalgonkar

Two Red Roosters

 

Rudyard Kipling                                       

Rikki – Tikki – Tavi

MunshiPremchand

The Child

 

BhishamSahni

The Boss Came to Dinner

 

Prabhat K. Mukhopadhyay

The Muscular Son-in-Law

Kamala Markandaya

The Nowhere Man

Source Books: 

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: 

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.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021 [2]

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