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Contemporary British Literature – I (Poetry and Drama) [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 514
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Objective :

•     To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain.

 

9.00
UNIT I: 
Philip Larkin

Church Going

 Toads

Wants

 Toads Revisited

At Grass

 

11.00
UNIT II: 
Seamus Heaney

Dedicatory Poem form Wintering Out

Mid-Term Break

Digging

At a Potato Digging

Follower

 

10.00
UNIT III: 
Ted Hughes

Pike

View of a Pig

Hawk Roosting

Thistles

The Thought-Fox

 

10.00
UNIT IV: 
John Osborne

Look Back in Anger

 

5.00
UNIT V: 
Harold Pinter

The Caretaker

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Chatterjee, Sisir Kumar. Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers, 2006.Print.

Gifford, Terry and Neil Roberts: Ted Hughes: A Critical Study. London: Faber & Faber, 1981.Print.

Lidstrom,Subanna. Nature, Environment and Poetry: Ecocriticism and Poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.  London: Routledge, 1985.Print.

Scolnicov, Hanna. The Experimental Plays of Harold Pinter. New York : University of D. Press, 2012. Print.

Academic Year: 
2015-2016 [2]

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