Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assassin.UK:Hatchet,2009

6. Duttani, Mahesh, “Collected Plays”, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2000.

18EN2007 AMERICAN, COMMONWEALTH AND CANADIAN LITERATURE Credits: 3:1:0 Course Objectives:

1. To learn about the socio-cultural and literary background of the American, Commonwealth and Canadian literary tradition 2. To acquire the skills to appreciate the aesthetic sense through literary works. 3. To learn to appreciate the artistry of key American, Commonwealth and Canadian writers

Course Outcomes:

The students will be able to: 1. appreciate literary themes of American, Commonwealth and Canadian literature 2. understand the styles and techniques of American, Commonwealth and Canadian literature 3. know different genres of American, Commonwealth and Canadian literature 4. exhibit an appropriate level of expertise in literary history- literary theory- and rhetoric. 5. demonstrate critical and analytical skills in the interpretation and evaluation of literary texts. 6. Examine major texts and traditions of American, Commonwealth and Canadian literature in their social- cultural and historical context

Module I: Major Literary movements

Historical background of American, Commonwealth and Canadian literature- Major Literary MovementsDark Romanticism-Transcendentalism-Realism- Beat Generation-Modernism-The Lost GenerationStridentism- Confessional Poetry - Confederation Poets- Montreal Group- The Song Fishermen- Southern Ontario Gothic- Quebec Movement

Module II: Poetry

Frost : Mending Wall - Emily Dickinson - Because I could not Stop for Death - Tagore – GitanjaliWhere the mind - Wole Soyinka- Telephone Conversation

Module III: Short Stories

O Henry: The Ransom of the Red Chief - Edgar Allan Poe: The Purloined Letter - R. K. Narayan: An Astrologer's Day

Module IV : Drama

Vijay Tendulkar : Silence, The Court is in Session - Eugene O’ Neil : The Hairy Ape

Module V: Novel

Harper Lee : To Kill a Mocking Bird - Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart

Reference Books:

1. Gopal Mallik. Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session Paperback, 2013 2. Harper Lee,Cornerstone. To Kill A Mockingbird, Digital Enhanced Edition, 2014 3. O''Neill Eugene. The Hairy Ape; Anna Christie; The First Man, , Hardpress Publishing, 2013 4. Paul, S. K. The Complete Poems of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali: Texts & Critical Evaluation.,Sarup & Sons,2006 5. Ganguli, Swati. Rabindranath Tagore & the Nation.,Punaschat Publisher,2012 Lall, Ramji. Gitanjali- Critical Study. Surjeet Publications, 2nd edition,2012. 6. Tagore, Rabindranath. Gitanjali, Embassy book,2011 7. Hart, James David. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. New York: Oxford UP,1983. 8. Ross, Donald. Companion to American Literature: Historical and Cultural Background. New York:Peter Lang, 2000. 9. Bradley, Sculley, Richmond C. Beatty, and E H. Long. The American Tradition in Literature. New York: Norton, 1997.

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