III – Semester
OPTIONAL ENGLISH SYLLABUS
American Literature (Paper III)
Unit I A brief introduction to American Literature (10 hours)
• Transcendentalism
• African American Literature (Harlem Renaissance)
• Jewish-American Literature
• Expressionism/Realism Etc
Unit II(8 Hours)
Prose
1. Chief Seattle: The End of Living and the beginning of Survival
2. Bernard Malamud: The German Refugee
Unit III (20 hours)
Poetry
1. Walt Whitman: The Great City
2. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
3. Langston Hughes: The Negro speaks of Rivers
Unit IV (11 hours)
Drama
1. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (Extract-Act Two)
Unit V (11 hours)
Novel
1. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (An Extract)
External References/ Readings
1. A Glossary of Literary Terms by M H Abrams
2. Contemporary American Literature
3. Norton Anthology of American Literature
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