American Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 611
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

Objectives :

 

  • To enable the students to understand the evolution and development of American Literature.
  • To acquaint the students with major American Literary Movements, trends, writers and their traits.

 

Robert Frost                                                                 

Stopping by Woods….

The Most of It

The Gift Outright

Tree at my Window

Provide Provide

The Road not Taken

 

Arthur Miller                                                                

The Crucible

 

Tennessee Williams                                                 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald                                                     

The Great Gatsby

 

Alice Walker                                                                 

The Color Purple

 

Source Books: 

 Egbert, Oliver,ed. An Anthology: American Literature 1890-1965. New Delhi: Eurasia Publishing , 2002.Print.

Vendler, Helen.ed. The Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. UK: Faber,2003.Print.

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Bloom, Harold. Robert Frost. Philadelphia: Chelsea Publishers,2003.Print.

Gray, Richard. A Brief History of American Literature. UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2011.Print.

Klopsch, Nadja. The American Dream in 20th Century American Drama. Munich: Grin Verlag, 2013.Print.

Prigozy, Ruth. The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott. F. New York: CUP, 2002.Print.

Roulane, Mathew C, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams. Cambridge: CUP, 1977.Print.

Singh, Pramila. Arthur Miller and His Plays. New Delhi: H.K. Publishers, 1990.Print.

 

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