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 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance Each and All
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Walt Whitman Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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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 |
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