American Literature – II (Fiction and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 423-A
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO 121.  Evaluate the social, historical, literary and cultural developments in American literature 

CO 122. Identify the distinct literary characteristics and sensibility of American literature

CO 123. Analyse the literary trends in fictional and dramatic genres of American literature

CO 124. Critically evaluate the issues of gender, race, class, ethnicity and geography in the prescribed texts

CO 125. Develop an understanding to compare the American writers with the writers of the other literatures resulting in the deeper comprehension of literature in general

 
12.00
Unit I: 

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

 
14.00
Unit II: 

Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

 
11.00
Unit III: 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini’s Daughter

Young Goodman Brown

 
12.00
Unit IV: 

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

 
11.00

Toni Morrison  

The Bluest Eye

 
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. 

 

Journals: 

American Literature by Duke University Press

 

E-resources:

http://www.infocobuild.com/education/audio-video-courses/literature/AmericanLiterature-Culture-IIT-Madras/lecture-19.html by Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024