'Twentieth Century American Literature' is an elective course, which can be opted in Eight / Ninth / Tenth Semester, offered in B. A. (Bachelor of Arts) English Language and Literature program at the School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus.
To create an awareness about the major trends and movements in American literature in the 20th century; to expose the students to the various genres of literature and the literary outputs of the writers in this period; to enable them to understand the culture and to appreciate the modern trends and their effects on literature.
Unit 1
Poetry [All Detailed]
Robert Frost: “Mending Walls”, “After Apple Picking”.
Wallace Stevens:“The Sunday Morning”.
E.A. Robinson: “Miniver Cheevy”.
Ezra Pound: “An Immortality”.
Unit 2
Drama
Eugene O Neil: Emperor Jones [Detailed].
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman [Non-Detailed].
Unit 3
Fiction [All Non-detailed]
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea.
Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby.
Saul Bellow: Herzog.
Unit 4
Short Stories [All Non-detailed]
O Henry: “Last Leaf”.
John Updike: “Pigeon Feathers”.
Unit 5
Prose [All Non-detailed]
Ezra Pound: “Imagism”.
Robert Frost: “The Figure a Poem Makes”.