MODULE TEXTS

1. Henry James – The Art of Fiction

2. V. Woolf – Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
3. E.M. Forster – Flat and Round Characters
4. Bakhtin – Theory of the Novel
5. Lionel Trilling – Manners, Morals and the Novel
6. Roland Barthes – Writing and the Novel
7. Wayne Booth – Rhetoric of Fiction
(from Distance and Point-of-View)
I THEORY 8. Lukacs – Marxist Aesthetics and Literary Criticism
9. Short Note on Narratology:
a. Gerard Genette
b. Todorov (Reading as Construction)
c. Rhizome (Deluze and Guattari)
10. D. Lodge – Mimesis and Digesis in Modern Fiction
11. Peter Brook – Reading for the Plot
12. Linda Hutchion – The Pastime of Past Time
II ORIGIN Origin of the Novel
Moll Flanders || Robinson Crusoe
III 18th
CENTURY Tom Jones || Joseph Andrews
Tristram Shandy
William Godwin || Thomas Love Peacock
IV ROMANTIC Jane Austen || Walter Scott
AGE
Emma || Waverly Novels
V GOTHIC Frankenstein – Detailed Summary
1. Growth of the Novel
 Double-decker Novel
 Circulating Library
VI VICTORIAN
 Victorian Readership
Great Expectations || Bleak House
Jane Eyre || Wuthering Heights
Tess of the d'Urbervilles || Jude the Obscure
H.G. Wells || Arnold Benett || E.M. Forster
VII EDWARDIAN
A Passage to India (Episodes: Marabar Cave & Trial)
 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
VIII STREAM OF
CONSCIOUSNESS To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers || The Rainbow
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
IX MODERNIST
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Graham Green Power and the Glory
POST-WAR
X NOVELS
THE The Scarlet Letter
GREAT
XI AMERICAN
The Great Gatsby
NOVELS Moby Dick
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
POST
XII MODERN
NOVELS

XIII EUROPEAN Anna Karenina || The Stranger

XIV ENGLISH
NOVELS Commonwealth and etc.