നോവലും ചെറുകഥയും

നോവൽ, ചെറുകഥ എന്നീ സാഹിത്യപ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങൾ 
 
S2/P1C-NOVEL AND SHORT STORY
 
Unit – I: Background of Modern Prose Malayalam Literature- Effects and contact with Western Literatures – Contribution of Keralavarma to the development of Malayalam Prose Literature
Unit – II: Modern Malayalam Fiction: Novel- Beginning- Chandu Menon and the social Novels, C.V. Raman Pillai and the Historical Novels. Period of adaptations and imitations- realism and progressive trends – Thakazhi, Dev, Basheer, Pottakkattu and other Novelists of the Realistic school
Unit – III: Stories in early stage – definition of short story – stages of development – early periods of short stories – early writers – features ––
Unit – IV: From the society to the individual – Uroob, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Kakkanadan, O.V. Vijayan, M. Mukundan, Sethu, Madhavikkutty etc. Short stories in renaissance period - Writers
Unit – V: Postmodern trends – N.S. Madhavan, T.D. Ramakrishanan, T.P. Rajeevan, Benyamin, Subhash Chandran, Sara Joseph, K. R. Meera etc. Short stories in modern age – writers – character, point of view, plot – trends