T.Y.B.A Syllabus 2020-21 (Semester V )

Paper Title - American Literature
Paper Code - ENC 105
No. of Credits: 04
No. of Lectures per week: 04 (total - 60 Lectures)

Objectives:
• To comprehend the history and culture of America with the help of prescribed texts
• To understand the idea and the implications of the American Dream
• To grasp the ethos of Black America including folklore elements
• To appreciate the quintessential American poetry

Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course, the students would be acquainted with the historical, political, social and cultural aspects of America from its early beginnings to the
modern contemporary times.

-The American Dream
- Social Realism and the American Novel
- Folklore and the American Novel
- Black Women’s Writings
 -Questions of form in American Poetry

Course Content:
Unit 1. Drama                                                           [15 contact hours]
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie     

Unit 2. Novel                                                             [15 contact hours]
Toni Morrison: Beloved        

                               
Unit 3. Short Story                                                  [15 contact hours]
1. Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Purloined Letter'
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'The Crack-up'
3. William Faulkner 'Dry September'

Unit 4. Poetry                                                           [15 contact hours]
1. Anne Bradstreet: 'The Prologue'
2. Walt Whitman: Selections from Leaves of Grass:
i. 'O Captain, My Captain'
ii. 'Passage to India' (lines 1–68)

3. Sherman Alexie:
i. 'Crow Testament'

ii. 'Evolution'

Exam Pattern:
INTRA-SEMESTER ASSESSMENT (ISA) 20 Marks
1. Written Test – 10 Marks
2. Any other mode – 10 Marks

SEMESTER END EXAMINATION (SEE) 80 Marks
Question 1 – Short Notes – any 4 out of 6 from Unit 1 and Unit 2 (4x4=16)
Question 2 – Short Notes – any 4 out of 6 from Unit 3 and Unit 4 (4x4=16)
Q. 3 to Q. 6 – Essay Type Questions with either/or option on each Unit (12 Marks each)

References:
1. Brown, John Russell, editor. American Theatre. Edward Arnold, 1967.
2. Brown, John Russell. American Poetry. Edward Arnold.
3. Cambon, Glauco. The Inclusive Flame Studies in Modern American Poetry. Popular Prakashan,1969.
4. Chase, Richard. The American Novel and its Tradition, Double Day, 1957.
5. Crevecouer, Hector St John. “What is an American” (Letter III) in Letters from an American Farmer, Penguin, 1982, pp. 66–105.
6. Douglass, Frederick. A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, Penguin, 1982, chaps. 1–7,pp. 47–87.
7. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Self Reliance”, in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson. The Modern Library, 1964.
8. Gould, Jean. Modern American Playwrights. Popular Prakashan, 1969.
9. Horton, Rod, editor. Background of American Literary Thought. Prentice Hall, 1974.
10. Hoffman, Daniel, editor. Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Oxford University Press, 1979.
11. Matthiessen, F. O.. American Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 1941.
12. Morrison, Toni. “Romancing the Shadow”, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination. Picador, 1993, pp. 29–39.
13. Pearce, Roy H. The Continuity of American Poetry. Princeton University Press, 1979.

14. Thoreau, Henry David. “Battle of the Ants” excerpt from “Brute Neighbours”, in Walden OUP, 1997 chap. 12.
15. Weinberg, Helen, The New Novel in America-The Kafkan Mode in Contemporary Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1970

Paper Title –Literary Criticism
Paper Code - END 101
No. of Credits: 04
No. of Lectures per week: 04 (total - 60 Lectures)

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the significant schools of literary criticism
• To get familiarized with western critics and their literary theoretical perspectives
• To acquire knowledge of basic concepts underlying select literary theories

. To understand literature through the application of critical inquiry

Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course, students will
• identify and explain major trends in literary critical thought.
• acquire skills of summarizing, critiquing, reading, interpreting and citing from critics’
  interpretation.
• identify and explain concepts like point of view, plot and setting.

Course Content:
Unit 1:                                                       [15 Contact Hours]
William Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1802)
S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria. Chapters IV, XIII and XIV

Unit 2:                                                     [15 Contact Hours]
Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction

T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

The Function of Criticism (1920)

Unit 3:                                                       [15 Contact Hours]
I.A. Richards: Principles of Literary Criticism Chapters 1, 2 and 34, 1924

 and Practical Criticism, 1929

Unit 4:                                                          [15 Contact Hours]
Cleanth Brooks: “The Heresy of Paraphrase”, and “The Language of Paradox” in

The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)

Maggie Humm: Practising Feminist Criticism: An Introduction. London 1995.

Exam Pattern:
INTRA-SEMESTER ASSESSMENT (ISA) 20 Marks
Written Test – 10 Marks
Any other mode – 10 Marks
SEMESTER END EXAMINATION (SEE) 80 Marks
Question 1 – Short Notes – any 4 out of 6 from Unit 1 and Unit 2 (4x4=16)
Question 2 – Short Notes – any 4 out of 6 from Unit 3 and Unit 4 (4x4=16)
Q. 3 to Q. 6 – Essay Type Questions with either/or option on each Unit (12 Marks each)

References:
1. Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp. Oxford UP, 1971.
2. Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royce. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, Routledge, 2016.
3. Lewis, C. S. Introduction. An Experiment in Criticism. Cambridge UP. 1992.
4. Wellek, Rene, and Stephen G. Nicholas. Concepts of Criticism. Yale U, 1963