American Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 611
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
 
7.00
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods….
The Most of It
The Gift Outright
Tree at my Window 
Provide Provide
The Road not Taken
10.00
Arthur Miller
All My Sons 
 
10.00
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie

 

10.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
8.00
Alice Walker
The Color Purple 
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. Maria Fernkorn:Character Constellation and Characterization in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie
  3. Nadja Klopsch: The American Dream in 20th Century American Drama
  4. Toni Freidrich: The Roaring Twenties- Historical Circumstances of The Great Gatsby
  5. Isabella Wrobel: Racism in Huckelberry Finn
 
Academic Year: 
2016-2017