PROSE AND FICTION
Learning Objectives of the Course: The Course is designed to enhance the students’
knowledge on genre of prose and fiction including English as well as Indian writers.
PRESCRIBED TEXTS:
Unit-1: Reference to Context from prescribed Essays and Short Stories.
Unit-2: Following Essays from Essays of Yesterday, ed. E.V. Paul (OUP)
Sir Richard Steele: The Trumpet Club
Joseph Addison: Meditations in Westminster Abbey
Oliver Goldsmith: A City Night-Piece
William Hazlitt: The Fight
Alfred George Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road
Sir Max Beerbohm: Seeing People Off
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: On Running after One’s Hat
John Boynton Priestley: On Travel by Train
Unit-3: Following stories from Short Stories of Yesterday and Today, ed. Shiv K. Kumar
(OUP)
Oscar Wilde: The Model Millionaire
Katherine Mansfield: A Cup of Tea
Somerset Maugham: The Mother
Joyce Cary: Growing Up
Mulk Raj Anand: The Gold Watch
Raja Rao: A Client
Khushwant Singh: Karma
Manohar Malgonkar: Upper Division Love
Unit-4: Novel: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Unit-5 Literary Background