American Literature – II (Fiction and Drama)

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

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

14.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini’s Daughter

Young Goodman Brown

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Toni Morrison 

The Bluest Eye

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Bentley, Eric. In Search of Theatre. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1953. Print.

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

Bloom, Harold. Death of a Salesman. New Delhi: Viva Books, 2012. Print.

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

Grewal, Gurleen. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison. Louisiana: Louisinia State University Press, 1998. Print.

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

Academic Year: 
2017-2018