American Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 611
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To enable the students to understand the evolution and development of American Literature

To acquaint the students with major American Literary Movements, trends, poets and their traits

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
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods….

The Most of It

The Gift Outright

Tree at my Window

Provide Provide

The Road not Taken

10.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Arthur Miller   

All My Sons

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Tennessee Williams   

The Glass Menagerie

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

F. Scott Fitzgerald     

The Great Gatsby

8.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Alice Walker  

The Color Purple

Source Books: 
  • Oliver : An Anthology : American Literature 1890-1965
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Boris Ford : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature : American Literature Vol.9
  • Maria Fernkorn:Character Constellation and Characterization in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie
  • Nadja Klopsch: The American Dream in 20th Century American Drama
  • Toni Freidrich: The Roaring Twenties- Historical Circumstances of The Great Gatsby
  • Isabella Wrobel: Racism in Huckelberry Finn
Academic Year: 
2014-2015