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MEG-06 AMERICAN LITERAURE

Block-1 Context of American Literature


Unit -1 The Puritan Context
Unit -2 The Consolidation and Dispersal of the Puritan Utopia
Unit -3 The Puritans as Literary Artists
Unit -4 Some other contexts of American Literature
Unit -5 From the Colonaial to the Federal: The contexts of American
Enlightenment

Block-2 American Fiction-I


Unit -6 Background
Unit -7 Reading the Text
Unit -8 Characterization
Unit -9 Narrative Technique & Structure
Unit -10 Critical Perspective

Block-3 American Fiction-II


Unit -11 Background to the Advetures of Huckleberry Finn
Unit -12 Huckleberry Finn and its Narrative
Unit -13 Themes and Characterization in Huckleberry Finn
Unit -14 Language in Huckleberry Finn
Unit -15 Humour and other issues in Huckleberry Finn

Block-4 American Prose


Unit -1 Revolutionary Prose in America
Unit -2 American Prose in the period of National Consolidation
Unit -3 The 'Other ' side of American Romanticism
Unit -4 American Prose around the Civil War
Unit -5 American Prose in the Post-Civil War Period, 1865-1890

Block-5 American Poetry-I


Unit -1 Background
Unit -2 The Text 1- Walt Whitman
Unit -3 The Text 2- Emily Dickinson
Unit -4 Structure and Style
Unit -5 Critical Perspective
Block-6 American Poetry-II
Unit -26 Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Unit -27 Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Unit -28 William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Unit -29 Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Unit -30 Adrienne Rich (1929 - …… )

Block-7 American Short Story


Unit -1 The American Short Story
Unit -2 Hemingway : A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Unit -3 William Faulkner : The Bear
Unit -4 Comparisons & Contrasts - i) Hemingway & Faulkner /
ii) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place & The Bear

Block-8 American Drama


Unit -1 American Drama : An Introduction
Unit -2 The Question of Identity in the Hairy Ape
Unit -3 Death of A Salesman as Tragedy
Unit -4 The Novel use of structure in Death of A Salesman
Unit -5 A Comparisons between Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller

Block-9 The Bluest eye by Toni Morrison


Unit -1 The Bluest Eye : Background
Unit -2 A Brief View of African American Literature
Unit -3 The Bluest Eye and its Narrative
Unit -4 The Dangerous Idea of Physical Beauty in The Bluest Eye
Unit -5 Sex & Love in The Bluest Eye
Unit -6 Conclusions

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