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Kulkarni Prof. Prakash Mahanwar  \nProVice-Chancellor, Director,  \nUniversity of Mumbai, IDOL, University of Mumbai,  \nProgram Co-ordinator : Dr. Santosh Rathod  \nProfessor of English, Head of Interdisciplinary Program, IDOL, University of Mumbai, Mumbai.  \nCourse Co-ordinator : Dr. Deepak G. Nair  \n& Editor Assistant Professor, Department of English,  \nIDOL, University of Mumbai, Mumbai  \nCourse Writer : Dr. Deepak G. Nair  \nAssistant Professor, Department of English, IDOL, University of Mumbai, Mumbai  \n: Dr. Radhika SubhankarMukherjee  \nDepartment of English,  \nSatish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College, Dnyana sadhana marg, ThaneWest  \n: Dr. Anita Ubale  \nDepartment of English,  \nUniversity of Mumbai, Vidya Nagari, Kalina, Santacruz East, Mumbai.  \n: Dr. Zeba Siddiqui  \nA3AEvershineAvenue, Flat No. 303, Wing C, Global City Virar West.  \nMay 2022, Print-1  \nPublished by : Director,  \nInstitute of Distance and Open Learning , University of Mumbai,  \nVidyanagari, Mumbai-400 098.  \nDTP Composed & : Mumbai University Press,  \nPrinted by Vidyanagari, Santacruz (E), Mumbai  \nUnit No.  \nTitle  \nPage No.  \n1. Terms/Concepts Background Topics PartI 01  \n2. Terms/Concepts Background Topics Part II 18  \n3. Critical Study of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger Part I 36  \n4. Critical Study of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger Part II 45  \n5. Critical Study of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan PartI 53  \n6. Critical Study of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan Part II 63  \n7. Critical Analysis ofT.S. Eliot’s ‘The Hippopotamus’and ‘Portrait of a Lady’ & W.B. Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming’ and ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’ 68  \n8. CriticalAnalysis ofW.H.Auden’s ‘The Shield of Achilles’and ‘In Memory ofW.B. Yeats’& Wilfred Owen’s ‘Insensibility’and ‘Strange Meeting’ 84  \n􀀁􀀁􀀁􀀁  \nTYBA  \nSemester V  \nEnglish Paper VIII 20th Century British Literature Syllabus  \nUnit 1: Background Topics  \n1. Modernism  \n2. Imagism  \n3. Symbolism  \n4. War Poetry  \n5. Movement Poets  \n6. Poetic Drama  \n7. Social Realism and its impact on English Drama  \n8. The Theatre of the Absurd  \nUnit 2: Drama  \nA. JOHN OSBORNE: Look Back in Anger (1956) OR  \nB. BERNARD SHAW: Saint Joan (1923)  \nUnit 3: Poetry  \n1. T.S. ELIOT: i)‘The Hippopotamus’ ii) ‘Portrait of a Lady’  \n2. W. B. YEATS: i) ‘The Second Coming’ ii)‘A Prayer for My Daughter’  \n3. W.H. AUDEN : i) ‘The Shield of Achilles’ ii) ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’  \n4. WILFRED OWEN : i) ‘Insensibility’ ii)‘Strange Meeting’Recommended Reading:  \n􀀁 Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 1978. Madras: Macmillan, 1988.Print .  \n􀀁 Bayley, John. An Elegy for Iris. New York : St. Martins's Press, 1999. Print.  \n􀀁 Berst, Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the Art of Drama. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. Print.  \n􀀁 Billington, Michael. State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945. London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Print.  \n􀀁 Bloom, Harold (ed.). George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.Print.  \n􀀁 Bove, Cheryl K. Understanding Iris Murdoch. Columbia (South Carolina): University of South Carolina Press, 1993. Print.  \n􀀁 Burton, Richard. Iris Murdoch. Writers and their Work. Essex: Longman Group Ltd., 1976 Print  \n􀀁 Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London: Secker and Warburg, 1993. Print.  \n􀀁 Bradbury, Malcolm. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories. London: Penguin (UK), 1988. Print.  \n􀀁 Byatt, A.S. Degrees of Freedom: The Novels of Iris Murdoch. London: Chatto and Windus, 1975. Print.  \n􀀁 Chinitz, David. A Companion to T.S. Eliot (Volume 62 of the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). Chicago: John Wiley and Sons, 2009. Print.  \n􀀁 Connor, Steven. The English Novel in History: 1950 – 1995. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Pri","cbCaish3uuqICdgw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaish3uuqICdgw","pdf",4785605,107,"English","# Unit 1: Background Topics\n## Modernism\n## Imagism\n## Symbolism\n## War Poetry\n## Movement Poets\n## Poetic Drama\n## Social Realism and its impact on English Drama\n## The Theatre of the Absurd\n# Unit 2: Drama\n## John Osborne: Look Back in Anger (1956)\n## Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan (1923)\n# Unit 3: Poetry\n## T.S. Eliot: The Hippopotamus; Portrait of a Lady\n## W.B. 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