BEGE-105 English Topics Covered
BEGE-105 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – Descriptive Prose
- Unit 1 – ‘Understanding Prose’: An Introduction
- Unit 2 – Descriptive Prose-1
- Unit 3 – Descriptive Prose-2
- Unit 4 – Descriptive Prose-3
Block 2 – Narrative Prose
- Unit 1 – Narrative Prose-1
- Unit 2 – Narrative Prose-2
- Unit 3 – Narrative Prose-3
Block 3 – Expository Prose
- Unit 1 – Expository Prose-1
- Unit 2 – Expository Prose-2
- Unit 3 – Expository Prose-3
- Unit 4 – Expository Prose-4
Block 4 – Forms of Prose: Short Story
- Unit 1 – Introduction to the Short Story
- Unit 2 – ‘Mother’ by Judah Waten
- Unit 3 – ‘Misery’ by Anton Chekhov
- Unit 4 – ‘The Other Woman’ by Dina Mehta
- Unit 5 – ‘The Legac’ by Virginia Woolf
Block 5 – The Novel: The Binding Vine
- Unit 1 – General Introduction to the Indian English Novel
- Unit 2 – The Binding Vine by Shashi Deshpande: Plot
- Unit 3 – Themes
- Unit 4 – Characterization
- Unit 5 – Technique
Block 6 – Non-Fictional Prose-I: Essays, Letters, Travelogues
- Unit 1 – Francis Bacon: “Of Great Place”
- Unit 2 – Jamaica Kincaid: “On Seeing England for the First Time”
- Unit 3 – Charles Lamb: “A Dissertation upon Roast Pig”
- Unit 4 – Jawaharlal Nehru: Letter to Indira Gandhi-‘The Quest of Man’
- Unit 5 – Bill Aitken: Travels by a Lesser Line ‘Last Resort in the South’ and ‘The Poetic Diction of Steam’
Block 7 – Non-Fictional Prose-II: Biography, Autobiography, Diary and Speeches
- Unit 1 – Boswell’s: Life of Johnson
- Unit 2 – M.K. Gandhi’s: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Unit 3 – Anne Frank’s: The Diary of a Young Girl
- Unit 4 – Margaret Laurence’s: “My Final Hour”