MEG-03 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
- Unit 1 – Some Aspects of Fiction
- Unit 2 – As we First Read Tom Jones
- Unit 3 – Important Thematic Areas in Tom Jones
- Unit 4 – Characters as Characterisations
- Unit 5 – Artistic Unity or Socio-Cultural Concerns?
- Unit 6 – Feminist Concerns in Fielding
- Unit 7 – Some Critical Opinions on Tom Jones
- Unit 8 – Narration in Fiction and Third World Preferences
Block 2 – Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Unit 1 – The Novel in its Context
- Unit 2 – Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-I
- Unit 3 – Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-II
- Unit 4 – Characters in the Novel
- Unit 5 – The Narrative of Pride and Prejudice
- Unit 6 – Critical Perspectives
Block 3 – Wuthering Heights
- Unit 1 – Background to Wuthering Heights
- Unit 2 – The Problem of Narrative
- Unit 3 – ‘Gift of God’: Heathcliff
- Unit 4 – ‘You Look Like A Lady Now’: Significance of Catherine
- Unit 5 – Wuthering Heights: One Hundred and Fifty Years
Block 4 – Charles Dicknens: Great Expectations
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – Great Expectations and Self-Improvement
- Unit 3 – Improvement or Disintegration?
- Unit 4 – Great Expectations and The Fairytale
- Unit 5 – Crime and Respectability
Block 5 – George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Unit 1 – Approaching the Novel
- Unit 2 – Themes, Characters, Techniques
- Unit 3 – Philosophical Underpinnings
- Unit 4 – Eliot’s Perspectives
- Unit 5 – The Finale
Block 6 – Joseph Conrad: Heart of darkness
- Unit 1 – His Story and History
- Unit 2 – Literary Analysis-I
- Unit 3 – Literary Analysis-II
- Unit 4 – Race, Empire, Gender in Heart of Darkness
- Unit 5 – The Lengthening Shadow
Block 7 – James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Unit 1 – Contexts
- Unit 2 – Genre, Overall Structure and Point of View
- Unit 3 – Stephen’s Growth and Personality
- Unit 4 – Technique
- Unit 5 – Critical Perspectives: A Brief Selective Overview
Block 8 – Edward Morgan Forester: A Passage to India
- Unit 1 – Passages to India
- Unit 2 – Representations of India (A): Approaches to the Novel
- Unit 3 – History and A Passage to India
- Unit 4 – Race Class and Gender in a Passage to India
- Unit 5 – Representations of India (B): Religions in the Novel
- Unit 6 – Passages from India
Block 9 – Muriel Sprak: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Unit 1 – The English Novel: Modernism and After
- Unit 2 – Muriel Spark: Her life, her Works, and the Text
- Unit 3 – Analysing the Text-I
- Unit 4 – Analysing the Text-II
- Unit 5 – The English Novel: 1960s and After