American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry)

Paper Code: 
ENG 323-A
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

The students will:

CO 71. Analyse the study of poetical works and prose-writings in relation to the historical and cultural contexts of American literature

CO 72. Recognise the issues, conflicts, themes and preoccupations of American writers in their works

CO 73. Acquire knowledge of how gender, race, class, ethnicity and geography, have shaped the formation of such literature

CO 74. Evaluate the literary trends in the literature of the age

CO 75. Develop an understanding of the development of American poetry from transcendentalism to the Modern period, focusing on transition in forms and styles of expression during each era

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Report-writing, Seminar-presentation

Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce

 

12.00

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance

Each and All

 

 

 

12.00

Walt Whitman

Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

 

 

 

12.00

Emily Dickinson

I Felt a Funeral

A Bird Came Down the Walk

I Heard a Fly Buzz

 

Langston Hughes

Mother to Son

I, Too

Democracy                 

 

 

12.00
Robert Frost
 
Mending Wall
Birches
The Road Not Taken
 
Wallace Stevens
 
Of Modern Poetry
Sunday Morning
Anecdote of the Jar
12.00
 
 
Amy Lowell 
 
The Capture Goddess 
September, 1918
Madonna of the Evening Flowers 
 
Sylvia Plath
 
Ariel
Lady Lazarus
The Colossus
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Book:

Egbert, Oliver. ed. Anthology of American Literature 1890-1965. S. Chand, 2012.

 

Suggested Readings

Dauben, Miriam. Emily Dickinson: The Death Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. GRIN Verlag, 2013.

Ford, Boris.Ed.The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature (Vol.9) Penguin Books, 1991.

John Jacob :History of America Literature . Sublime Publication, 2005.

Martin,Linda Wagner. Critical Essays on Sylvia Plath. G.K. Hall, 1984.

Matthiessen, Francis Otto. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman . OUP, 1943.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkdFMw0pmk (Emerson)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qwCEnkb2_E (Frost)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWl8ZIgCHk (Plath)

 

Journals:

Literary Journals ASLE

English and American Literature

 

Academic Year: