The Course will enable the students to identify significant and culturally diverse examples of American literature between the 17th and mid-19th centuries, recognise different literary concepts, gain an insight into American Culture, Theory and Renaissance and appreciate the major genres and modes employed by the writers of the period.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
Each and All
Walt Whitman
Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
Birches
The Road Not Taken
Wallace Stevens
Of Modern Poetry
Sunday Morning
Anecdote of the Jar
Amy Lowell
The Captured Goddess
September, 1918
Madonna of the Evening Flowers
Sylvia Plath
Ariel
Lady Lazarus
The Colossus
Egbert, Oliver. ed. Anthology of American Literature1890-1965. S. Chand, 2012.
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
The students will: CO85. Analyse the study of poetical works and prose-writings in relation to the historical and cultural contexts of American literature CO86. Validate the issues, conflicts, themes and preoccupations of American writers in their works CO87. Examine how gender, race, class, ethnicity and geography, have shaped the formation of such literature CO88. Evaluate the literary trends in the literature of the age CO89. 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 CO90. Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction. |