MEG-06 American Literature Block 1 - Contexts of American Literature The Puritan Context The Consolidation and Dispersal of the Puritan Utopia The Puritans as Literary Artists Some "Other" Contexts of American Literature Form the Colonial to the Federal: The Contexts of the American Enlightenment Block 2 - American Fiction-I Background Reading the Text Characterization Narrative Technique and Structure Critical Perspective Block 3 - American Fiction-II Background to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn and its Narrative Themes and Characterization in Huckleberry Finn Language in Huckleberry Finn Humour and Other Issues in Huckleberry Finn Block 4 - American Prose Revolutionary Prose in America American prose in the Period of National Consolidation The 'Other' Side of American Romanticism American Prose around the Civil War American Prose in the Post-Civil War Period, 1865-1890 Block 5 - American Poetry-I Background The Text 1: Walt Whitman The Text 2: Emily Dickinson Structure and Style Critical Perspective Block 6 - American Poetry-II Robert Frost (1874-1963) Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Adrienne Rich (1929) Block 7 - American Short Story The American Short Story Hemingway: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place William Faulkner: The Bear Comparisons and Contrasts Block 8 - American Drama American Drama: An introduction The Question of Identity in the Hairy Ape Death of a Salesman as Tragedy The Novel Use of Structure in Death of a Salesman A Comparison between Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller Block 9 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye: Background A Brief View of African American Literature The Bluest Eye and its Narrative The Dangerous Idea of Physical Beauty in the Bluest eye Sex and Love in The Bluest Eye Conclusion Total-27, Solved-15, Unsolved-12 June (2007-2020) December (2008-2020)