MEG-03 British Novel

Block 1 - Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Some Aspects of Fiction
As we First Read Tom Jones
Important Thematic Areas in Tom Jones
Characters as Characterisations
Artistic Unity or Socio-Cultural Concerns?
Feminist Concerns in Fielding
Some Critical Opinions on Tom Jones
Narration in Fiction and Third World Preferences
Block 2 - Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
The Novel in its Context
Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-I
Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-II
Characters in the Novel
The Narrative of Pride and Prejudice
Critical Perspectives
Block 3 - Wuthering Heights
Background to Wuthering Heights
The Problem of Narrative
'Gift of God': Heathcliff
'You Look Like A Lady Now': Significance of Catherine
Wuthering Heights: One Hundred and Fifty Years
Block 4 - Charles Dicknens: Great Expectations
Background
Great Expectations and Self-Improvement
Improvement or Disintegration?
Great Expectations and The Fairytale
Crime and Respectability
Block 5 - George Eliot: Middlemarch
Approaching the Novel
Themes, Characters, Techniques
Philosophical Underpinnings
Eliot's Perspectives
The Finale
Block 6 - Joseph Conrad: Heart of darkness
His Story and History
Literary Analysis-I
Literary Analysis-II
Race, Empire, Gender in Heart of Darkness
The Lengthening Shadow
Block 7 - James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Contexts
Genre, Overall Structure and Point of View
Stephen's Growth and Personality
Technique
Critical Perspectives: A Brief Selective Overview
Block 8 - Edward Morgan Forester: A Passage to India
Passages to India
Representations of India (A): Approaches to the Novel
History and A Passage to India
Race Class and Gender in a Passage to India
Representations of India (B): Religions in the Novel
Passages from India
Block 9 - Muriel Sprak: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The English Novel: Modernism and After
Muriel Spark: Her life, her Works, and the Text
Analysing the Text-I
Analysing the Text-II
The English Novel: 1960s and After


Total-37, Solved-18, Unsolved-19
June (2002-2003, 2005-2020)
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