English syllabus - Gauhati University

10SEMESTER IVPAPER 7The Social and Literary Context: Modernism and AfterMarks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8This paper will acquaint students with the circumstances that shaped the processes of literaryproduction from the twentieth century to the present. Students will answer 4 questions of 14 markseach (14×4=56) and 4 questions of 6 marks each (6×4=24) on literary trends, cultural movementsand significant figures and events.Fiction: Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence and James JoyceThe Little MagazinesThe Poetry of WB Yeats, T.S. Eliot and the Auden CircleThe ‘Rise of English’: Scrutiny and its influenceThe New Theatre: John Osborne, Christopher Fry, Samuel Beckett, John Arden, ArnoldWeskerPoetry from the Sixties: Ted Hughes and Seamus HeaneyThemes and issues in Post-colonial literature: nation, identity, culturePostmodernism: Globalisation and Popular CultureRecommended Reading:Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature, Basingstoke Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000Birch, Dinah ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford: OUP, 2009Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: OUP, 2004Widdowson, Peter . The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts 1500-2000, BasingstokeHampshire:Palgrave Macmillan, 2004