Question 1) Attempt the following questions:
a) Trace the main tenets of American Enlightment focusing on respective positions of any one author prescribed in your course.
b) Hawthrone’s imagination creates in The Scarlet Letter, a “neutral territory where both the Actual and the imaginary meet and interpenetrate.”
Question 2) Write brief notes on the following:
a) Emergence of Preritamism as the hegemonic American ideology.
b) Themes of Huckelberry fuin.
c) American Prose in Era of Nation Formation
d) American Romanticism
Question 3) Attempt the following questions:
a) Trace the elements of American Transcendentalism focusing on the prose of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
b) Write down Hemuginay’s contribution of symbolism and irony as reflected through his writings, citing examples of a text prescribed in yours course.
Question 4) Attempt the following questions.
a) Edward Taylor and his contribution to colonial poetry of America.
b) Ralph Waldo Emerson and his poetry / or Influence of wall Whitman on American poetry.
c) Major themes in Robert Frost’s Poetry.
d) American Drama.