MEG3 British Novel(IGNOU Help book for MEG-3 in English Medium)

MEG-3 British Novel

CONTENTS COVERED

Novel- 1 Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

Unit-1 Some Aspects of ‘Fiction’

Unit-2 As We First Read Tom Jones

Unit-3 Characters as Characterisations

Unit-4 Artistic Unity or Socio-Cultural Concerns

Unit-5 Feminist Concerns in Fielding

Unit-6 Some Critical Opinions on Tom Jones

Unit-7 Narration in Fiction and Third World Preferences

Novel- 2 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Unit-1 The Novel in its Context

Unit-2 Main Themes in pride and Prejudice-1

Unit-3 Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-2

Unit-4 Characters in the Novel

Unit-5 The Narrative of Pride and Prejudice

Unit-6 Critical Perspectives

Novel- 3 Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte

Unit-1 Background to Wuthering Height

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

Novel- 4 Charles Dickens: 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

Novel- 5 George Eliot : Middlemarch

Unit-1 Approaching The Novel

Unit-2 Themes, Characters, Techniques

Unit-3 Philosophical Underpinnings

Unit-4 George Eliot’s Perspectives

Unit-5 The Finale

Novel- 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

Novel- 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

Novel- 8 Edward Morgan Forster: A Passage to India

Unit-1 Passage 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

Novel- 9 Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodies

Unit-1 The English Novel: Modernism and After

Unit-2 Muriel Spark: Her life, her Works, and the Text

Unit-3 Analysing the Text-1

Unit-4 Analysing the Text-2

Unit-5 The English Novel: 1960s and After

QUESTION PAPERS

1. Question Paper - June 2002

2. Question Paper - Dec 2002

3. Question Paper - June 2003

4. Question Paper - Dec 2003

5. Question Paper - June 2005

6. Question Paper - Dec 2005

7. Solution Paper - June 2006

8. Solution Paper - Dec 2006

9. Solution Paper - June 2007

10. Solution Paper - Dec 2007

11. Solution Paper - June 2008

12. Solution Paper - Dec 2008

13. Solution Paper - June 2009

14. Solution Paper - Dec 2009

15. Solution Paper - June 2010

16. Question Paper - Dec 2010

17. Solution Paper - June 2011

18. Question Paper - Dec 2011

19. Solution Paper - June 2012

20. Question Paper - Dec 2012

21. Question Paper - June 2013

22. Question Paper - Dec 2013

23. Question Paper - June 2014

24. Question Paper – Dec 2014

25. Question Paper – June 2015

26. Question Paper – Dec 2015