Course

OPEN ELECTIVES-UG (Arts , Humanities and Commerce)

Unit 1

Introduction to Campus Novel/Academic Novels – growth and development of Campus Novel.

Unit 2

The Bachelor of Arts – R. K. Narayan

Atom and the Serpent – Prema Nandakumar

Unit 3

The Drunk Tantra – Ranga Rao

Unit 4

Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

Unit 5

Chemistry – Weiki Wang

CORE READING:

1. K. Narayan – The Bachelor of Arts – Indian Thought Publication
2. Ranga Rao – The Drunk Tantra – Penguin Books
3. Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim – Penguin Books
4. Prema Nandakumar – Atom and the Serpent -Affiliated East-West Press
5. Weike Wang – Chemistry: A Novel – Knopf Publication

Course Objectives:

To familiarise the students to the genre of Campus/Academic novels To understand the socio-political background of academia.

To initiate discussions on the growth of Campus novels. To critically analyse the past and present academic novels. Course Outcomes:

CO 1: Identify genre specific elements of Campus Novels

CO2: Analyse the socio-political background of academic novels.

CO3: Compare and contrast different works to identify trends and shifts from past to present campus novels.

CO4: Critically analyse the role of academics in the transformation of society.

CO – PO MAPPING:

Evaluation Pattern:

SUGGESTED READING:

1. Elaine Showalter – Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents – Oxford University Press
2. Jenny Stringer – The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English – Oxford University Press
3. Janice Rossen – The University in Modern Fiction: When Power is Academic – Palgrave Macmillan
4. Mark Bosco, Kimberly Rae Connor – Academic Novels as Satire: Critical Studies of an Emerging Genre –

Edwin Mellen Press

5. Mortimer Proctor – The English university novel – University of California Press
6. Kenneth Womack – Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community – Palgrave Macmillan