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Block 1 - Contexts of American Literature
- Unit 1 – The Puritan Context
- Unit 2 – The Consolidation and Dispersal of the Puritan Utopia
- Unit 3 – The Puritans as Literary Artists
- Unit 4 – Some “Other” Contexts of American Literature
- Unit 5 – Form the Colonial to the Federal: The Contexts of the American Enlightenment
Block 2 - American Fiction-I
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – Reading the Text
- Unit 3 – Characterization
- Unit 4 – Narrative Technique and Structure
- Unit 5 – Critical Perspective
Block 3 -American Fiction-II
- Unit 1 – Background to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Unit 2 – Huckleberry Finn and its Narrative
- Unit 3 – Themes and Characterization in Huckleberry Finn
- Unit 4 – Language in Huckleberry Finn
- Unit 5 – Humour and Other Issues in Huckleberry Finn
Block 4 - American Prose
- Unit 1 – Revolutionary Prose in America
- Unit 2 – American prose in the Period of National Consolidation
- Unit 3 – The ‘Other’ Side of American Romanticism
- Unit 4 – American Prose around the Civil War
- Unit 5 – American Prose in the Post-Civil War Period, 1865-1890
Block 5 - American Poetry-I
- Unit 1 – Background
- Unit 2 – The Text 1: Walt Whitman
- Unit 3 – The Text 2: Emily Dickinson
- Unit 4 – Structure and Style
- Unit 5 – Critical Perspective
Block 6 - American Poetry-II
- Unit-1 The American Short Story
- Unit-2 Hemingway: A Clean, Well- Lighted Place
- Unit-3 William Faulkner: The Bear
- Unit-4 Comparisons and Contrasts
Block 7 - American Short Story
- Unit 1 – Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Unit 2 – Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
- Unit 3 – William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- Unit 4 – Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Unit 5 – Adrienne Rich (1929–)
Block 8 - American Drama
- Unit 1 – American Drama: An introduction
- Unit 2 – The Question of Identity in the Hairy Ape
- Unit 3 – Death of a Salesman as Tragedy
- Unit 4 – The Novel Use of Structure in Death of a Salesman
- Unit 5 – A Comparison between Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller
Block 9 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Unit 1 – The Bluest Eye: Background
- Unit 2 – A Brief View of African American Literature
- Unit 3 – The Bluest Eye and its Narrative
- Unit 4 – The Dangerous Idea of Physical Beauty in the Bluest eye
- Unit 5 – Sex and Love in The Bluest Eye
- Unit 6 – Conclusion
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