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Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction-I [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 314
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

 

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
UNIT I: 
 

Aldous Huxley                 Selected Snobberies

J.B. Priestley                           On Doing Nothing
                                                    In Crimson Silk

 

8.00
UNIT II: 
Robert Lynd

The Pleasures of Ignorance

On Not Being a Philosopher

The Chocolate Bus

 

10.00
UNIT III: 
Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

 

10.00
UNIT IV: 
Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

 

9.00
UNIT V: 
E. M. Forster

A Passage to India

 

Source Books: 
SOURCE BOOKS: 
  • Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot)
  • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and his World
  • Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
  • W. Booth : Rhetoric of Fiction
  • Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
  • David Daiches : Virginia Woolf
  • K. Allot and M. Farris : The Art of Graham Greene
  • J. Madaube : Graham Greene (Paris, 1949)
  • Joan Bennett : Virginia Woolf – Her Art as a Novelist (Cambridge ,1945)
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
  • The Art of the Essayist by C. H. Lockitt (ed.)
  • Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (Edward Arnold and Co., London. Reprinted by Penguin)
  • A Book of English Essays (Pelican)

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016 [2]

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