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Volume 04 · Semester IV

Twentieth Century Literature

Modern literature, identity and freedom

Chief Editor: Professor Avinash Jodha
Course: BA English Literature, Semester IV
Publisher: Surya Prakashan Mandir
Volume Overview

Reading with context and care

This volume explores twentieth-century literature through questions of identity, conscience and freedom. Poetry, fiction, drama and reflective writing illuminate the relationship between individual lives and a changing world. Golding and Shaw are studied alongside Gandhi, Bharati and Tagore, bringing literary imagination into conversation with ethical and social concerns. Literary foundations and critical explanations guide reading, while detailed summaries, glossaries, passage explanations and answered practice support revision.

Curriculum Focus

Selected coverage

Twentieth-century poetry, Golding and Shaw; Gandhi, Bharati and Tagore.

Key authors, foundational essays, dramatic masterworks, and classical devotional poetry aligned with the MGSU BA English curriculum.
Pedagogical Apparatus

Study support

Literary foundations, critical study, detailed summaries, glossaries, passage explanations, answered questions and MCQs.

Modernist angst, alienation and social critique
Dramatic realism and allegory (Shaw & Golding)
National awakening & ethical vision (Gandhi, Bharati, Tagore)
Textual analyses contextualized with 20th-century history
Glossaries of modernist concepts and political references
Comprehensive question banks with model solutions

Volume details & academic credits

CourseBA English Literature, Semester IV
UniversityMaharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner
Chief EditorProfessor Avinash Jodha
Co-editorsDr. Manish Maharshi, Dr. Sunita Nain and Dr. Neetu Bissa
PublisherSurya Prakashan Mandir, Bikaner
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