New IGNOU BEGE-105 Help Book Understanding Prose in English – BA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Descriptive Prose
‘Understanding Prose’: An Introduction
Descriptive Prose-1
Descriptive Prose-2
Descriptive Prose-3

Block 2 – Narrative Prose
Narrative Prose-1
Narrative Prose-2
Narrative Prose-3

Block 3 – Expository Prose
Expository Prose-1
Expository Prose-2
Expository Prose-3
Expository Prose-4

Block 4 – Forms of Prose: Short Story
Introduction to the Short Story
‘Mother’ by Judah Waten
‘Misery’ by Anton Chekhov
‘The Other Woman’ by Dina Mehta
‘The Legac’ by Virginia Woolf

Block 5 – The Novel: The Binding Vine
General Introduction to the Indian English Novel
The Binding Vine by Shashi Deshpande: Plot
Themes
Characterization
Technique

Block 6 – Non-Fictional Prose-I: Essays, Letters, Travelogues
Francis Bacon: “Of Great Place”
Jamaica Kincaid: “On Seeing England for the First Time”
Charles Lamb: “A Dissertation upon Roast Pig”
Jawaharlal Nehru: Letter to Indira Gandhi-‘The Quest of Man’
Bill Aitken: Travels by a Lesser Line ‘Last Resort in the South’ and ‘The Poetic Diction of Steam’

Block 7 – Non-Fictional Prose-II: Biography, Autobiography, Diary and Speeches
Boswell’s: Life of Johnson
M.K. Gandhi’s: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Anne Frank’s: The Diary of a Young Girl
Margaret Laurence’s: “My Final Hour”