THE COURSEBOOK OF INTRODUCTION TO PROSE

Perception Publication, New Delhi, 2022

The book Introduction to English Prose: Texts and Contexts has been designed with a view to keeping in the mind the NEP 2020 common minimum syllabus for the State Universities and Colleges of Uttarakhand for the students of BA 1st Semester. It is an endeavour to meet out the introductory knowledge of the development and significance of literary genres in English. It defines the basic elements such as plot, plot structure, theme, characterization, setting, narrative technique and point of view of the short story to enable students to understand the art of story-telling through short stories of great short story masters O. Henry and Anton Chekhov. The book critically evaluates the style and contributions of some of the greatest short-story writers concentrating on various types of prose and prose styles like Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Travelogue and Essay along with chalking out the important terms pertaining to prose writings, including various stylistic and figurative devices like Point of View, Imagery, Antithesis, Aphorism, Humour and Pathos. Apart from that, it furnishes the comprehensive knowledge to interpret the growth of English essays through the contributions of some of the greatest essayists riveting on the wide variety of subject matters that this genre serves. Each short story and essay has been discussed with the writer’s biographical details, literary achievements, literary contribution, original text, glossary, critical analysis incorporating plot, theme, narrative technique and prose style along with acted explanations of important passages, character sketches and important long and short questions to carry out the university questions paper efficiently.

This is the course outline and lesson plan for a course titled as Introduction to Prose intended for Undergrad students pursuing their Bachelors in English. This course outline and lesson plan is formulated based on the template coordinating with Outcome Based Education (OBE) Curriculum formulated by UGC.

Journal of Education and Practice, 2014

Literature is language in use and is generally seen to play a vital role in language teaching. Literary texts provide us with much aesthetic, intellectual and emotional pleasure in that the writer often seeks to delineate their vision of human experience through a creative, emotive use of language. In essence literature serves to enhance the students' language competence. This paper examines the relationships between language and literature. This is demonstrated with several prose texts with a view to show their pedagogical relevance to students' language needs. In the conclusion, it is emphasized that the link between language and literature which had been ignored in the past should now be exploited for the development of students' performances in the target language.

2015

Volume-2: Issue-2 (February, 2020)

I have been teaching fiction for a number of years and every time I walk into class to teach my students fiction, a short story or a novel, I get embarrassed to find out that my students who have taken courses such as “The Rise of the Novel, or “Introduction to Literature” still do not know to answer basic questions related to such courses. What is literature? What are the major genres of literature? What is fiction? What are the basic elements of fiction? These questions are fundamentals for literature students. Their inability of not answering them will cause big problems for college instructors presuming that students should have known these questions during the time they were students taking these courses above mentioned. These challenges rise when I first meet with my students taking fiction as university requirement. I ask them individually to answer these questions, to which they are unable to answer in good English. They just use words or phrases to answer, which adds a new ...

The present paper attempts to study the various aspects of the novel as a major form of literature. The novel is only one of many possible prose narrative forms. It shares with other narratives, like the epic and the romance. It shares two basic characteristics: a story and a story-teller. The epic tells a traditional story and is an amalgam of myth, history, and fiction. Its heroes are gods and goddesses and extraordinary men and women. The romance also tells stories of larger-than-life characters. It emphasizes adventure and often involves a quest for an ideal or the pursuit of an enemy. The events seem to project in symbolic form the primal desires, hopes, and terrors of the human mind and are, therefore, analogous to the materials of dream, myth, and ritual. But the novel differs from the epic and romance by its realistic treatment of life and manners. Its heroes are men and women like us, and its chief interest is human character as it manifests itself in society.

2018

This paper aimed to describe the need for teaching materials of fictional prose aspects of instructional material structure at FKIP Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. This description was part of the results of the development research aimed at producing the teaching materials model of Fictional Prose-based ADOR-MEVERLEE (advanced organizer-meaningful verbal learning-elaboration) to actualize the complexity of students' literary competence at FKIP Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. The design used was the research and development design, by implementing three main stages. The stages were: theoretical study activities and research, planning, and production. This paper reveals the results of research at the stage of research, namely the requirements analysis phase, namely the needs of students and lecturers with respect to the model of teaching materials Fictional Prose Studies. The teaching materials of the Fictional Prose Study model are prepared by considering six aspects: ...