American Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 511
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To enable the students to understand the evolution and development of American Literature
  2. To acquaint the students with major American Literary Movements, trends, poets and their traits. 
  3. To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
 
12.00
R.W. Emerson 
The American Scholar 
8.00
Walt Whitman 
Passage to India 
On the Beach at Night 
10.00
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
10.00
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
10.00
Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat 
Emily Dickinson
Because I Could not Stop for Death 
Hope is the Thing with Feathers 
The Soul Selects her Own Society 
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed 
I Died for Beauty…. 
Source Books: 
  1. Oliver : An Anthology : American Literature 1890-1965
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Boris Ford : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature : American Literature Vol.9
  2. J.D. Harg  ed. : The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 1983
  3. John Jacob : History of American Literature
  4. Harold Bloom : Eugene O’Neill (New York : Chelsea, 1987)
  5. F.O. Mathiesson : American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New Delhi : OUP, 1973.
  6. Harold Bloom: The Scarlet Letter(Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations) (2007)
 
Academic Year: 
2016-2017