American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry)

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

The course will enable the students to:

  • Familiarize themselves with some significant and culturally diverse examples, both canonical and non-canonical, of American literature between the 17th and mid-19th centuries
  • Get introduced to different concepts like Transcendentalism, Puritanism and American Romanticism, along with glimpses of American culture, theory and Renaissance
  • Appreciate some of the major genres and modes employed by the writers of the period

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance

Each and All

12.00
Unit II: 

Walt Whitman

Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

12.00
Unit III: 

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
Unit IV: 

Robert Frost

Mending Wall

Birches

The Road Not Taken

Wallace Stevens

 Of Modern Poetry

Sunday Morning

Anecdote of the Jar

12.00
Unit V: 

Amy Lowell

The Capture Goddess

September, 1918

Madonna of the Evening Flowers

Sylvia Plath

Ariel

Lady Lazarus

The Colossus

Source Books: 

Egbert, Oliver. ed. Anthology of American Literature1890-1965.New Delhi: S.Chand, 2012 .Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Dauben, Miriam. Emily Dickinson: The Death Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Munich: GRIN Verlag, 2013. Print.
  • Ford, Boris.Ed.The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature (Vol.9).Harmondsworth: Penguin Books,1991. Print.
  • John Jacob : History of America Literature .Jaipur: Sublime Publication,2005.Print.
  • Martin,Linda Wagner.Critical Essays on Sylia Plath. Boston: G.K.Hall,1984.Print.
  •      Matthiessen, Francis Otto. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman .Oxford: OUP, 1943.Print
Academic Year: 
2019-2020