Major elective · English · Semester 6 · TY BA · 4 credits · 100 marks · 60 hours
Module 1: Background Topics
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Expressionism in American Drama
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Confessional Poetry
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Harem Renaissance
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African American fiction
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Native American
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American dream
Module 2: Drama
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The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill
Module 3: Novel
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Module 4: Poetry
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Sylvia Plath: The Rivals and Mirror
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Langston Hughes: A Dream Deferred and I too sing America
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Sherman Alexie : Evolution and The Powwow at the End of the World
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Adrienne Rich: Diving into the wreck and Living in sin
Reference Books
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Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms 2015 India: Cengage India.
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Robert M. Dowling- Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts
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Travis Bogard - Contour in Time: The plays of Eugene O’Neill
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner, 2004.
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Matthew J.Bruccoli – Some Sort of Epic Grandeur : The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Chase, Richard. The American Novel and Its Tradition. Johns Hopkins UP, 1957.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Valerie Smith, editors. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. 3rd ed., W.W. Norton, 2014.
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Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. Routledge, 1988.
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Hughes, Langston. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, Vintage Classics, 1995.
