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Modern Prose: Course Content

ENG 425

Aims & Objectives

To produce the students with the genre of prose and essay written in the modern time.
To emphasize the significance of style in prose writing.
To familiarize the students with some of the most prominent prose writers of the time.

Course Outline

Forster, E.M.

From Abinger Harvest
Notes on the English Character
The Mind of the Indian Native State

Huxley, Aldous

Knowledge and Understanding
Liberty, Quality, Machinery

Russell, Bertrand (Any 8 of the following at the most)

From Unpopular Essays
Future of Mankind
The Function of a Teacher
On Being Modern Minded
From The Conquest of Happiness
What Makes People Unhappy?
Byronic Unhappiness
The Sense of Sin
Fear of Public Opinion
The Happy Man
Culture and Imperialism (Introduction)
Islam as News
The Politics of Knowledge

Recommended Books

he Achievement of Forster
Beer, J. B.The Achievement of Forster. London, 1962.
A Reading of E, M. Forster
Cavaliero Glen. A Reading of E, M. Forster. London, 1979.
Human Exploration
Das, G.K. and Beer, John. (ed) E.M. Forster: A Human Exploration, London, 1979.
Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley
Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley, 2 vols. London, 1973-4.
The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell.
Schlipp, P. (ed.) The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell.
Edward Said and the Work
Bove, Paul A. (ed.) Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power. Durham, 2000.

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Recommended Readings

The Dark Historical Page
Baker, R. S. The Dark Historical Page: Social Satire and Historicism in the Novels of Aldous Huxley, 1921-39. London, 1982.
Huxley’s Letters,
Huxley’s Letters, ed. Grover Smith. 1969.
Philosopher of the Century
Schoeman, R. (ed.) Bertrand Russell, Philosopher of the Century
Philosopher and Humanist
Leavis, John. Bertrand Russell, Philosopher and Humanist
Bertrand Russell: An Introduction.
Carr, Brian. Bertrand Russell: An Introduction.
Edward Said: A Critical Reader. Oxford,
Sprinker, Michael. (ed.) Edward Said: A Critical Reader. Oxford, 1992.
Ashcroft, Bill and ahluwalia
Ashcroft, Bill and ahluwalia, Pal. Edward Said: Routledge Critical Thinker. London, 2001.