BEGE-141 Understanding Prose : Syllabus

 

Block 1 

Prose and Poetry

1.2.1 Difference Between Prose and Poetry

1.2.2 Denotation and Connotation

1.3 Varieties of Prose

1.3.1 Descriptive Prose

1.3.2 Narrative Prose

1.3.3 Expository Prose

1.4 Forms of Prose

1.4.1 Short Story

1.4.2 Novel

1.4.3 Essay

1.4.4 Biography and Autobiography

1.4.5 Diary, Speeches, Letters and Travelogues

1.5 Figures of Speech

Block 2 

FORMS OF PROSE: SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS

UNIT 1

‘Misery’ – Anton Chekhov 

UNIT 2

‘Mother’ – Judah Waten 

UNIT 3

‘Shooting an Elephant’– George Orwell 

UNIT 4

‘On Seeing England for the First Time’– Jamaica Kincaid 

Block 3 Biography and Autobiography

UNIT 2

Gandhi: Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

UNIT 3

Bertrand Russells’s Autobiography 

UNIT 4

Lytton Strachey’s –Queen Victoria 

Block 4 

DIARY, SPEECH, LETTERS, TRAVELOGUES

UNIT 1

Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl 

UNIT 2

Margaret Laurence’s My Final Hour 

UNIT 3

Nehru’s Letters to Indira Gandhi: ‘The Quest of Man’ 

UNIT 4

Travelogue: Travels by a Lesser Line — Bill Aitken