American Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 511
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1.   Understand the cultural history of America
  2. Examinethe literary trends in the literature of the age
  3. Critically analyse the representative works of eminent American writers, for their themes and issues, style and treatment
  4. Be exposed to a thorough and integrated study of literature with a deep, broad, diverse and transdisciplinary perspective and understanding
  5. Recognise and summarize impact and intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality.
  6. Examine the influence of historical context on the formation of local, national and global, political as well as social narratives.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, presentations

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

 

9.00

R.W. Emerson          

The American Scholar

 

 

 

9.00

Walt Whitman         

Passage to India

On the Beach at Night

 

 

 

9.00

Nathaniel Hawthorne          

The Scarlet Letter

 

 

 

9.00

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

 

 

 

9.00

Edgar Allan Poe       

The Black Cat

The Tell Tale Heart

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

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Book:

Egbert, S. Oliver. An Anthology: American Literature 1890-1965. Eurasia Publishing House, 1984.

 

Suggested Readings:

Bloom Harold. The Scarlet Letter Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2007.

Ford, Boris. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature Vol.9. Penguin, 1983.

Jacob, John. History of American Literature. Sublime Publications, 2005.

Mathiesson, F.O. American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. OUP, 1973.

 

e-resources

https://americanliterature.com/books

http://www.emilydickinson.org/

 

Journals

Studies in American Fiction

 

Academic Year: