Post-War Literature: Course Content

UNIT 1

• Salient features of Post-war literature

UNIT 2

• Dylan Thomas as a poet

UNIT 3                                  

• Detailed reading with critical analysis of any 3 of the following poems:
•  A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child in London
•  By Fire
• Of a Child in London
• Poem in October
• Over Sir John’s Hill
• There was a Saviour
• Author’s Prologue

UNIT 4

• Philip Larkin as a poet

UNIT 5

• Detailed reading with critical analysis of any 3 the following poems:

•  Dockery and Son
•  Mr. Bleaney
• At Grass
• Church Going

UNIT 5

• Graham Greene as a novelist

UNIT 6

•   The Tenth Man: its detailed reading and critical analysis

UNIT 7

• Absurd Drama and Pinter’s contribution to this new genre
• The Caretaker: its detailed reading with critical analysis

UNIT 8

• Amis Kingsley as a novelist
• Lucky Jim: its detailed reading with critical analysis