B.Tech

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.