American Literature – II (Fiction and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 423-A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • Compare and contrast texts by diverse authors whose fictional and dramatic works reveal the evolving American experience and character
  • Examine the historical, social and cultural contexts in which they were written

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

  • Evaluate the social, historical, literary and cultural developments in American literature
  • Identify the distinct literary characteristics and sensibility of American literature
  • Analyse the literary trends in fictional and dramatic genres of American literature
  • Critically evaluate the issues of gender, race, class, ethnicity and geography in the prescribed texts

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

 

14.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

 

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini’s Daughter

Young Goodman Brown

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

 

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Toni Morrison 

The Bluest Eye

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Bentley, Eric. In Search of Theatre. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1953.

Bigsby, C.W.E. Modern American Drama. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bloom, Harold. Death of a Salesman. Viva Books, 2012.

Ernory, Eliott, Scott Donaldson, and Elliott Donaldson. New Essays on Farewell to Arms. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Grewal, Gurleen. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of ToniMorrison. Louisinia State University Press, 1998.

Janusz, Semrau. New Essays on the Short Stories of Natheniel Hawthorne. Peter Lang Publishers, 2012.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022