Unit 1
Introduction: Differences between novel and short stories – origin and development of short stories – Rabindranath
Tagore: Kabuliwallah; Mulk Raj Anand: The Gold Watch.
| Course Name | Indian Short Stories in English |
| Course Code | 23ENG234 |
| Credits | 2 |
| Campus | Amritapuri ,Coimbatore,Bengaluru, Amaravati, Chennai |
Introduction: Differences between novel and short stories – origin and development of short stories – Rabindranath
Tagore: Kabuliwallah; Mulk Raj Anand: The Gold Watch.
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar: The Curds-Seller; Manohar Malgonkar: Upper Division Love; Romila Thapar: The Spell; Premchand: The Voice of God.
OBJECTIVES:
To help the students learn the fine art of story writing; to help them learn the techniques of story telling; to help them study fiction relating it to the socio- cultural aspects of the age; to familiarize them with different strategies of reading short stories; to make them familiar with the morals and values held in high esteem by the ideals of Indianness.
Evaluation Pattern
| Assessment | Internal | End Semester |
| Periodical 1 (P1) | 15 | |
| Periodical 2 (P2) | 15 | |
| *Continuous Assessment (CA) | 20 | |
| End Semester | 50 |
*CA – Can be Quizzes, Assignment, Projects, and Reports.
TEXT:
REFERENCE:
Mohan Ramanan (Ed), English and the Indian Short Story: Essays in Criticism, Hyderabad, Orient Black Swan, 2000.
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