American Literature – II (Fiction and Drama)

Paper Code: 
24ENG423(A)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to compare and contrast texts by diverse authors whose fictional and dramatic works reveal the evolving American experience and character and examine the historical, social and cultural contexts in which they were written.

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

 

12.00
Unit II: 

Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini’s Daughter

Young Goodman Brown

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

 

12.00
Unit V: 

Toni Morrison 

The Bluest Eye

 
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Bentley, Eric. In Search of Theatre. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1953.

Bigsby, C.W.E. Modern American Drama. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bloom, Harold. Death of a Salesman. Viva Books, 2012.

Ernory, Eliott, Scott Donaldson, and Elliott Donaldson. New Essays on Farewell to Arms. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Grewal, Gurleen. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of ToniMorrison. Louisinia State University Press, 1998.

Janusz, Semrau. New Essays on the Short Stories of Natheniel Hawthorne. Peter Lang Publishers, 2012.

Journals:

American Literature by Duke University Press

 

E-resources:

http://www.infocobuild.com/education/audio-video-courses/literature/AmericanLiterature-Culture-IIT-Madras/lecture-19.html by Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO121.  Evaluate the social, historical, literary and cultural developments in American literature

CO122. Identify the distinct literary characteristics and sensibility of American literature

CO123. Analyse the literary trends in fictional and dramatic genres of American literature

CO124. Examine the issues of gender, race, class, ethnicity and geography in the prescribed texts

CO125. Develop an understanding of comparing the American writers with the writers of the other literatures, resulting in the deeper comprehension of literature in general
CO126.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.