English Fiction: Modern

To expose the learners to the intricacies and complexities of modem fiction focusing on its themes and techniques; to enable them to evaluate modem social and cultural movements and appreciate changing literary tastes and fashions; to inspire them to read modem classics and thus re-sensitize themselves.

Unit 1

Introducing modem fiction-themes and concerns-movements-styles and techniques.

Unit 2

[All Non-Detailed]

Virginia Woolf. Orlando
James Joyce. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

Unit 3

[All Non-Detailed]

Aldous Huxley.Brave New World. 
Wilkie Collins. No Name.

Unit 4

[All Non-Detailed]

George Orwell. The Animal Farm. 
Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter.

Unit 5

[All Non-Detailed]

Kingsley Amis. Lucky
Jim D H Lawrence. Sons and Lovers.

1. Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. UK: OUP, 2015.
2. Collins, Wilkie. No Name. Penguin Classics, 1995.
3. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. London:Chatto & Windus,1932.
4. Orwell, George. The Animal Farm. London:Seeker & Warbufl1,1945.
5. Joyce, James. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
6. Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter. Penguin Classics, 2004.
7. Kingsley Amis. Lucky Jim. NYRB Classics, 2012.
8. Lawrence, D H. Sons and Lovers. Wordsworth Editions Ltd; Reprint edition, 1992.

1. Beach, J.W, The Twentieth Century Novel, Studies in Technique. Ludhiana: Lyall, 1960.
2. Matz, Jesse. The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004.
3. Caserio, Robert L. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature).UK: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition, 2009.
4. Fish, James. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. London: Blackwell, 2006.
5. Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction. Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
6. Bradbury, Malcolm. The Social Context of Modern English Literature. New York: Schocken, 1971.
7. Levenson, Michael. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: CUP, 2009.
8. Tew, Philip. The Contemporary British Novel. London: Continuum, 2011.
9. Waugh, Patricia. Ed. Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature. London: Arnold, 1997.
10. Schoene, Berthold. The Cosmopolitan Novel. Edinburgh: EUP, 2009.