IGNOU MEG 6 : American Literature Syllabus

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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