New IGNOU MEG-06 Help Book American Literature in English – MA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

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