IGNOU MEG-06
- American Literature,
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MEG-06 English Topics Covered

Block 1 - Contexts of American Literature

• Unit 1 - The Puritan Context
• Unit 2 - The Consolidation and Dispersal of the Puritan Utopia
• Unit 3 - The Puritans as Literary Artists
• Unit 4 - Some “Other” Contexts of American Literature
• Unit 5 - Form the Colonial to the Federal: The Contexts of the American Enlightenment

Block 2 - American Fiction-I

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - Reading the Text
• Unit 3 - Characterization
• Unit 4 - Narrative Technique and Structure
• Unit 5 - Critical Perspective

Block 3 - American Fiction-II

• Unit 1 - Background to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Unit 2 - Huckleberry Finn and its Narrative
• Unit 3 - Themes and Characterization in Huckleberry Finn
• Unit 4 - Language in Huckleberry Finn
• Unit 5 - Humour and Other Issues in Huckleberry Finn

Block 4 - American Prose

• Unit 1 - Revolutionary Prose in America
• Unit 2 - American prose in the Period of National Consolidation
• Unit 3 - The ‘Other’ Side of American Romanticism
• Unit 4 - American Prose around the Civil War
• Unit 5 - American Prose in the Post-Civil War Period, 1865-1890

Block 5 - American Poetry-I

• Unit 1 - Background
• Unit 2 - The Text 1: Walt Whitman
• Unit 3 - The Text 2: Emily Dickinson
• Unit 4 - Structure and Style
• Unit 5 - Critical Perspective

Block 6 - American Poetry-II

• Unit 1 - Robert Frost (1874-1963)
• Unit 2 - Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
• Unit 3 - William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
• Unit 4 - Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
• Unit 5 - Adrienne Rich (1929--)

Block 7 - American Short Story

• Unit 1 - The American Short Story
• Unit 2 - Hemingway: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
• Unit 3 - William Faulkner: The Bear
• Unit 4 - Comparisons and Contrasts

Block 8 - American Drama

• Unit 1 - American Drama: An introduction
• Unit 2 - The Question of Identity in the Hairy Ape
• Unit 3 - Death of a Salesman as Tragedy
• Unit 4 - The Novel Use of Structure in Death of a Salesman
• Unit 5 - A Comparison between Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller

Block 9 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Unit 1 - The Bluest Eye: Background
• Unit 2 - A Brief View of African American Literature
• Unit 3 - The Bluest Eye and its Narrative
• Unit 4 - The Dangerous Idea of Physical Beauty in the Bluest eye
• Unit 5 - Sex and Love in The Bluest Eye
• Unit 6 - Conclusion

Previous Year Solved Question Papers Included

MEG-06 English (Total-38, Solved-22, Unsolved-16)

• June (2003, 2005-2023)
• December (2003, 2005-2022)

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