B.A. English
4th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-05 : American Literature
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Unit 1: Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
◦Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
◦UK: Penguin UK
Unit 2: Toni Morrison, Beloved
◦Toni Morrison
◦Beloved
◦New York: Penguin Patanam Inc
Unit 3: Short Stories
◦(a) Edgar Allan Poe: The Purloined Letter
◦(b) O
◦Henry: The Last Leaf
◦(c) F
◦Scott Fitzgerald: The Crack-up
◦(d) William Faulkner: Dry September
Unit 4: Poetry
◦(a) Anne Bradstreet: The Prologue
◦(b) Walt Whitman: Selections from Leaves of Grass: O Captain! My Captain! Passage to India (lines1-68)
◦(c) Alexie Sherman Alexie: Crow Testament Evolution
◦(d) Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
◦Stopping by Woods in The Norton Anthology of Poetry
◦Fourth Edition
◦Margaret Ferguson
◦Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy
◦New York: W
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◦Norton and Company, 1996
Reference Books:
- Hector St. John Crevecoeur, 'What is an American', (Letter III) in Letters from an American Farmer, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982. pp.66-105.
- Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982. chaps. 1-7, pp.47-87.
- Henry David Thoreau, 'Battle of the Ants' excerpt from 'Brute Neighbours', in Walden, Oxford: OUP, 1997. chap. 12.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Self Reliance', in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson, New York: The Modern Library, 1964.
- Toni Morrison, 'Romancing the Shadow', in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination, London: Picador, 1993. pp.29-39.
- American Tradition in Literature - George Perkins and Barbara Perkins.
- American Literature of the 19th Century: An Anthology - Fisher Samuelson and Reniger Vaid.
- American Literature 1890-1965: An Anthology - Dr. Egbert S. Oliver, New Delhi: Eurasia Publishing House.
- Concise Anthology of American Literature, Second Edition, Eds: George McMichael, Fredrick Crews, J.C. Lennenson, Leo Marx, David E. Smith
- C.A. Beard and M.R. Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, 2 vols.
- W. Allen, The Urgent West: The American Dream and Man
- J. Martin, Harvests of Change: American Literature, 1865-1914