Level: BA Major English, Paper III
Full Marks: 100
Year: Second
Contact hours: 150
Course
Title: Prose: Essays and Short Stories
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Course Code: ENGL 423
1. The General Form of Prose
2. The Word: Vocabulary
3. The Sentence: Grammar and Idiom
4. The Sentence: Written and Spoken Prose
5. The Paragraph
6. Prose Rhythm
7. Individual and Common Style
8. Common Style and Cheap Style
9. Simplicity and Ornamentation
10. Subdivisions (Objective and Subjective & Abstract and Concrete)
11. Subdivisions (Realism, Romance and Unreality, Some Special Conventions & Prose for Its Own Sake)
12. The Historical Approach
13. The Science Of Rhetoric
14. A Word about Writing Prose
Unit 2: Selected Essays Contact hours: 60
15. “Of Truth” (Sir Francis Bacon)
16. “A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick” (Jonathan Swift)
17. “Thoughts in Westminster Abbey” (Joseph Addison)
18. “On Recollections of Childhood” (Sir Richard Steele)
19. “The Conservative” (Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “Night and Moonlight” (Henry David Thoreau)
21. “Thoughts of God” (Mark Twain)
22. “On Being Modern-Minded” (Bertrand Russell)
23. “My Own Centenary” (E.M. Forster)
24. “The Death of the Moth” (Virginia Woolf)
25. “Insouciance” (D.H. Lawrence)
26. “The Sterner Sex” (Rebecca West)
27. “On Being the Right Size” (J.B.S. Haldane)
28. “Meditation on the Moon” (Aldous Huxley)
29. “Reflections on Gandhi” (George Orwell)
30. “Adams at Ease” (Lionel Trilling)
31. “The Facts of Budhha” (Sir William Empson)
32. “Columbus and Crusoe” (V.S. Naipaul )
33. “The Bankrupt Man” (John Updike )
34. “At the Dam” (Joan Didion)
Unit 3 Short Stories on Intimate Relationships Contact hours: 36
35. “Can-can”( Arturo Vivante)
36. “The Story of an Hour” (Kate Chopin)
37. “Epicac” (Kurt Vonnegut)
38. “The Legacy” (Virginia Woolf)
39. “The Kugelmass Episode” (Woody Allen)
40. “An Intruder” (Nadine Gordimer)
41. “Powder” (Tobias Wolff)
42. “Mother” (Grace Paley)
43. “A Short Digest of a Long Novel” (Budd Schulberg)
44. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” (D. H. Lawrence)
45. “The Boarding House” (James Joyce)
46. “My Oedipus Complex” (Frank O’ Connor)
Unit 4: Short Stories on Loneliness and Alienation Contact hours: 12
47. “The Model” (Bernard Malamud)
48. “Disappearing”google.com, pub-6793489967138871, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 (Monica Wood)
49. “Miss Brill” (Katherine Mansfield)
50. “Teenage Wasteland” (Anne Tyler)
Unit 5: Short Stories on Social Change and Injustice Contact hours: 12
51. “Like a Winding Sheet”(Anne Petry)
52. “The Lily-White Boys” (William Maxwell)
53. “The Catbird Seat” (James Thurber)
54. “Everyday Use” (Alice Walker)
Evaluation Scheme Internal: 30% (Portfolio Mandatory 15%) google.com, pub-6793489967138871, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 External: 70%
Prescribed Books
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Prose. London: Routledge, 2013.
Gross, John J. The Oxford Book of Essays. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
Marcus, Sybil. A World of Fiction: Twenty Timeless Short Stories. New York: Pearson, 2014.
