American Literature : Course Outline

American Literature : An introduction

Critical Theory: An overview

• Emily Dickinson as a poetess (Any 3 poems)
• Obsession with death in Dickenson’s poetry
• Transcendentalism
• Feminism

Detailed study with critical analysis of ANY 3 of  the following poems:

• Success is Counted Sweetest
• A Light Exists in Spring
• Because I could not Stop for Death
• I Felt a Funeral in my Brain
• A Route of Evanescence
• A bird Came Down the Walk

Robert Frost as a Modern American poet

Sylvia Plath: Critical appreciation of any 3 of her poems

Ted Hughes: Critical appreciation of the following poems:

•  The Road Not Taken
• Crow
• Hawk Roosting

The Glass Menagerie

• Gender Roles
• Behavior Characteristics
• Communication Patterns
• Sources of Power
• Physical Appearance