This 16-week course plan covers modern fiction through detailed readings and analyses of 5 novels: Heart of Darkness, A Passage to India, To the Lighthouse, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Lord of the Flies. Key topics to be discussed include postcolonial and feminist themes, stream of consciousness technique, characters and their significance, and exploring each work as representative of its time period.
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BS English 5th Semester Syllabus Division
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16 week plan of Modern Fiction ENGL-3113 BS English 5th Semester (1)
This 16-week course plan covers modern fiction through detailed readings and analyses of 5 novels: Heart of Darkness, A Passage to India, To the Lighthouse, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Lord of the Flies. Key topics to be discussed include postcolonial and feminist themes, stream of consciousness technique, characters and their significance, and exploring each work as representative of its time period.
This 16-week course plan covers modern fiction through detailed readings and analyses of 5 novels: Heart of Darkness, A Passage to India, To the Lighthouse, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Lord of the Flies. Key topics to be discussed include postcolonial and feminist themes, stream of consciousness technique, characters and their significance, and exploring each work as representative of its time period.
16 weeks plan of BS English 5thSemester Modern Fiction ENGL-3113 Time Course Content period Week 1 Heart of Darkness :its detailed reading with critical analysis Week 2 Heart of Darkness :its detailed reading with critical analysis Week 3 Heart of Darkness as a Postcolonial novel Satire on Imperialism Marlowe as a narrator Kurtz: a hero or a villain Week 4 A Passage to India :its detailed reading with critical analysis Week 5 A Passage to India :its detailed reading with critical analysis Week 6 Forster’s depiction of racial relations Character of Dr. Aziz Mrs. Moore’s mystic experience Week 7 To the Lighthouse: its detailed study with critical analysis Week 8 To the Lighthouse: its detailed study with critical analysis Week 9 To the Lighthouse as a Stream of Consciousness novel Conflict between Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay Mrs. Ramsay as a unifying character
Week 10 Symbolism in the novel
Feminist approach of Virginia Woolf Week 11 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: itsdetailed study and analysis Week 12 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: itsdetailed study and analysis Week 13 Stream of Consciousness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man As an Autobiographical novel Complexity of technique Week 14 Lord of the Flies :its detailed study with critical analysis Week 15 Lord of the Flies :its detailed study with critical analysis Week 16 Golding as a Modern novelist Atavism Significance of the Title Failure of democracy