Elective · 01/ENG/DSE/401T · 2026–27 intake
American Literature
Semester VII · 4 credits · 5 units
Examination scheme & source discrepancies
The source lists 3 hours, 80 end-semester marks and 20 sessional marks.
Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.
See source PDF for the printed marking instructions.
Not present in the owner-supplied 2026–27 PDF (jnvu_ba.pdf), which covers English Major papers only; this paper is retained from the G.D. Memorial College full syllabus copy.
Unit ISong of Myself, sections 1–6 / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and more
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- Song of Myself, sections 1–6Coming soon
- Crossing Brooklyn FerryComing soon
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard BloomedComing soon
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Walt Whitman: ‘Song of Myself ’ (Sections 1-6); ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’; ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.’
Extraction artefacts were removed for readability. The manifest retains the raw transcription; compare the source PDF for exact wording.
Source syllabus · page 121Unit IIThe American Scholar / Mending Wall and more
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- The American ScholarComing soon
- Mending WallComing soon
- BirchesComing soon
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningComing soon
- OnsetComing soon
- Fire and IceComing soon
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The American Scholar (Essay). Robert Frost: ‘Mending Wall’; ‘Birches’; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’; ‘Onset’; ‘Fire and Ice’.
Source syllabus · page 121Unit IIII Taste a Liquor Never Brewed / I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died and more
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- I Taste a Liquor Never BrewedComing soon
- I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I DiedComing soon
- The Soul Selects Her Own SocietyComing soon
- The Last Night that She LivedComing soon
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Emily Dickinson: ‘I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed’; ‘I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died—'; ‘The Soul Selects Her Own Society’; ‘The Last Night that She Lived’;
Source syllabus · page 121Unit IVDeath of a Salesman
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Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman.
Source syllabus · page 122Unit VA Street Car Named Desire
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Unit V: Tennessee Williams: A Street Car Named Desire
Source syllabus · page 122Recommended readings in the source
- Cunliffe , Marcus. The Literature of the United States. Penguin, 1961.
- Bradely and Beatty The American Tradition in Literature (Shorter edition), (ed.) Random House,1988
- Curti, Merle. The Growth of the American Thought. Transaction Publishers;3rd Edition, 1981.
- Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought, Vol. II. University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
- Bigsby, C.W.E. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama: Vol. II. Cambridge University press,1984.