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COURSE OBJECTIVES:

· The course aims at exposing the students of English language and literature to different literary and cultural canons of the English speaking world.
· Through the wide scope of reading, the course aims at giving the students an ample opportunity to trace the development of American literature being dependent on the English literature to be a real independent and even influential in it.
· The course aims at exposing the students to the intercultural nature of the American literature.
· One of the main objectives of the course is to develop the student's literary taste and analytical and critical skills.


TEX TBOOKS

Murphy, F, H. Parker et. Al. eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1. New York & London: Norton & Co. (recent edition

Bayn, Nina, et. al. eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 2. New York & London: Norton & Co. (recent edition

Abrams, M.H. et.al. eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. 1.London & New York: Norton & Company. (Recent Edition

Emerson, Everett (Editor), Major Writers of Early American Literature
Various Internet Website

Week Topic

Week One General and Brief Introduction to American Literature
Week Two Colonial Literature
Week Three Romanticism
Week Four Realism
Week Five Naturalism
Week Six Modernism
Week Seven Harlem Renaissance
Week Eight Poetry: Because I Could Not Stop for Death &
Hope is the Thing with Feathers by EmilyDickinson
Week Nine Fiction: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Week Ten Fiction: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Week Eleve Fiction: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Week TwelveFiction: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Week Thirteen Drama: Trifles by Susan Glaspell's
Week Fourteen Course Revision