Paper Title - American Literature
Paper
Code - ENC 105
No. of Credits: 04
No. of Lectures per week: 04
(total - 60 Lectures)
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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 Mk
·
Black
Women’s Writings
·
Questions
of form in American Poetry
Course Content:
Unit
1. Drama [15 contact hours] Tennesse 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 (I.S.A)
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)
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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
· identifyand
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 Literari
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)
Maggi Hum: 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 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.
