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
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rappaccini’s Daughter
Young Goodman Brown
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
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.