Unit 1
The short story and its craft
Unit 2
The Indian story-telling traditions
Unit 3
Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – Themes
Unit 4
Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – Characterization
Unit 5
Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – Narrative technique and structure
Reading List
Stories from Anand, Mulk Raj. Greatest Short Stories. Mumbai: Jaico, 1999.
· “The Lost Child”
· “Lajwanti”
· “The Cobbler and the machine ”
· “The Power of Darkness”
· “A Kashmir Idyll”
· “A Pair of Mustachios”
· “The Liar”
· “The Tamarind Tree”
· “The Thief”
Garimella, Annapurna (Editor). Mulk Raj Anand: Shaping the Indian Modern. Mumbai: Marg Publications. 2005. 124pp.
Naik, M. K.(Ed.). “Introduction” to Mulk Raj Anand: Greatest Short Stories.
Ramanan, Mohan and P. Sailaja. English and the Indian Short Story. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2000.
Reid, Ian. The Short Story. (The Critical Idiom). London: Routledge, 197
Links:
[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/mulk-raj-anand-craft-short-story-writing-3
[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2018-2019