Syllabus MEG-11

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MEG-11 AMERICAN Novel

Block-1 James F. Cooper : the Last of the Mohicans


Unit -1 The Beginnings
Unit -2 The Man, The Milieu and the moment
Unit -3 The Last of the Mohicans : An Analysis
Unit -4 Perspectives of the Novel-I
Unit -5 Perspectives of the Novel-II

Block-2 Theodore Dreiser : Sister Carrie


Unit -1 Literary Context
Unit -2 Theodore Dreiser : The Man and the Writer
Unit -3 Sister Carrie : A Critical Summary
Unit -4 Sister Carrie : A Critical Study of the major themes

Block-3 F.Scott Fitzgerald : The Great Gatsby


Unit -1 The Man, The Milieu and the moment
Unit -2 The Plot and the Self- Improvement Hero
Unit -3 The Great Gatsby and Fable, Symbol and Allegory
Unit -4 The Great Gatsby : The Narrative Technique
Unit -5 Critics and Criticism: An Overview

Block-4 William Faulkner : Light in the August


Unit -1 American Fiction in 1920s and 1930s
Unit -2 The Novel in the South
Unit -3 Light in the August: Structure and Narrative Strategies
Unit -4 Characterization and Critical Approaches

Block-5 Henary Miller : Black Spring


Unit -1 Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature
Unit -2 The Great Tradition
Unit -3 The Outsider
Unit -4 The Indelible Impact
Unit -5 Miller's Work : Black Spring
Unit -6 Critical Approaches

Block-6 J.D. Salinger : The Catcher in The Rye


Unit -1 The Author and the Plot
Unit -2 The main Themes and Characters
Unit -3 The Language in The Catcher in The Rye
Unit -4 Critical Interpretations
Block-7 John Barth : Floating Opera
Unit -1 The Post-war American Novel
Unit -2 The Experimental Novel
Unit -3 The Floating Opera : An Analysis of the Text
Unit -4 Philosophic Formulations and the farce of reason
Unit -5 From Modernity to Postmodernity

Block-8 Scott Mamaday : a House Made of Dawn


Unit -1 Native American Literature
Unit -2 Native American Fiction
Unit -3 The Making of Mamaday
Unit -4 A House Made of Dawn : An Analysis
Unit -5 Critical Perspectives

Block-9 Alice Walker : The Color Purple


Unit -1 The Woman, The moment and the Milieu-I

Unit -2 The Woman, The moment and the Milieu-II


Unit -3 The Color Purple and its Structure
Unit -4 Analysis of Celie's Letters-I
Unit -5 Analysis of Celie's Letters-II
Unit -6 Themes Emerging from Celie's Letters

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