American Literature: A Retrospect And Structural English For Communication
This Subject Includes
Course No:
HS 108
Course:
B.Tech
Semester:
III
Title:
American Literature: A Retrospect And Structural English For Communication
Stream:
English
Description:
The American Dream: Transcendentalism in the poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Pastoral in Robert Frost; The American Paradox; naturalism in John Steinbeck & existentialism in Ernest Hemingway; Self liberation in Mark Twain & Societal values in Arthur Miller; English for communication integrating structural, functional and situational skills.
Text:
E. Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Scribner, 1961.^$^J. Steinbeck, The Red Pony, Mandarin Classics, 1993.^$^M. Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Penguin, 1998.^$^A. Miller, A View from the Bridge, 1987.
Course References:
J. H. Richards, Interchange English for international communication, Cambridge University Press, 1998.