IGNOU MEG-03
- British Novel,
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MEG-03 English Topics Covered

Block 1 - Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

• Unit 1 - Some Aspects of Fiction
• Unit 2 - As we First Read Tom Jones
• Unit 3 - Important Thematic Areas in Tom Jones
• Unit 4 - Characters as Characterisations
• Unit 5 - Artistic Unity or Socio-Cultural Concerns?
• Unit 6 - Feminist Concerns in Fielding
• Unit 7 - Some Critical Opinions on Tom Jones
• Unit 8 - Narration in Fiction and Third World Preferences

Block 2 - Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

• Unit 1 - The Novel in its Context
• Unit 2 - Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-I
• Unit 3 - Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-II
• Unit 4 - Characters in the Novel
• Unit 5 - The Narrative of Pride and Prejudice
• Unit 6 - Critical Perspectives

Block 3 - Wuthering Heights

• Unit 1 - Background to Wuthering Heights
• 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

Block 4 - Charles Dicknens: 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

Block 5 - George Eliot: Middlemarch

• Unit 1 - Approaching the Novel
• Unit 2 - Themes, Characters, Techniques
• Unit 3 - Philosophical Underpinnings
• Unit 4 - Eliot’s Perspectives
• Unit 5 - The Finale

Block 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

Block 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

Block 8 - Edward Morgan Forester: A Passage to India

• Unit 1 - Passages 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

Block 9 - Muriel Sprak: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

• Unit 1 - The English Novel: Modernism and After
• Unit 2 - Muriel Spark: Her life, her Works, and the Text
• Unit 3 - Analysing the Text-I
• Unit 4 - Analysing the Text-II
• Unit 5 - The English Novel: 1960s and After

Previous Year Solved Question Papers Included

MEG-03 English (Total-41, Solved-24, Unsolved-17)

• June (2002-2003, 2005-2023)
• December (2002-2003, 2005-2019, 2022)
• February (2021)

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