Syllabus of MA IV Sem. English (Paper IV- American Literature) - 2022-23

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MA IV Sem. English (Paper IV- American Literature)

UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Prose)
i. Emerson: American Scholar
ii. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
UNIT- III (Poetry)
i. Emily Dickinson: Because I Could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, A Light Exists in Spring, This is My Letter to the World.
ii. Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting
UNIT- IV (Drama)
i. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
ii. Edward Albee: The Zoo Story
UNIT-V (Fiction)
i. Earnest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
ii. Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Location: B-37, City Homes Colony, Jawahar Nagar, Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India

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