·         General Objective:

By the end of this course, learners will be able to analyze different American literary texts using various literary terminologies relevant to several literary movements from early to postmodern period.

·         Specific Objectives:

1-  Recognize the different aspects of American colonial literature.

2-  Identify the main aspects of a birth of nation in American literature.

3-  Distinguish the features of the rise of  American national literature.

4-  Identify the prominent characteristics of American Romanticism   

5-  Distinguish the essential theoretical aspects of American Transcendentalism

6-  Illustrate the various aspects of Gilded Age

7-  Describe the main aspects of American Realism

8-  Demonstrate the characteristics of Naturalism

9-  Explain the main features of Modernism

10-Demonstrate the aspects of Postmodernism

11-Use the theoretical aspects of Romanticism in relation to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher

12-Apply the main features of American Realism in Kate Chopin’s  The Story of an Hour

13-Examine the main characteristics of Modernism in  T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

14-Analyze Don Delillo’s postmodern novel White Noise.