IGNOU MEG-17
- American Drama,
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MEG-17 English Topics Covered

Block 1 - American Drama: An Introduction

• Unit 1 - The Beginning of American Drama
• Unit 2 - Influences
• Unit 3 - Emergence of forms in American Drama

Block 2 - Musicals and Farce

• Unit 1 - What is a Musical?
• Unit 2 - Key Elements of Musical
• Unit 3 - The Necessity of Musicals
• Unit 4 - Royall Tyler’s The Contrast As A Farce
• Unit 5 - What is a Farce?
• Unit 6 - William Dean Howells’ Self-Sacrifice As A Farce

Block 3 - Naturalism/ Realism

• Unit 1 - Naturalism/Realism: The Concept
• Unit 2 - Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the Sun As A Realist Play
• Unit 3 - Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the Sun As A Marxist Play

Block 4 - The Twentieth Century Poetic Drama

• Unit 1 - Origin of Poetic Drama in the Early Twentieth Century
• Unit 2 - T.S.Eliot’s Contribution to Poetic Drama
• Unit 3 - T.S. Eliot’s A Family Reunion as a Poetic Drama
• Unit 4 - Modernism in T.S. Eliot’s A Family Reunion (Ms. Pritha Banerjee)

Block 5 - Absurd Drama

• Unit 1 - The Idea of the Absurd Drama
• Unit 2 - Absurd Drama: Technique
• Unit 3 - Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Contextualizing the Text
• Unit 4 - Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf as an Absurd drama

Block 6 - Expressionism

• Unit 1 - Expressionism: The Concept
• Unit 2 - The Technique of Expressionism
• Unit 3 - Eugene O Neill’s The Emperor Jones as an Exposition of Expressionism
• Unit 4 - Eugene O Neill as a Pioneer of Psycho`logical Drama

Block 7 - Avant Gardism

• Unit 1 - The Idea of Avant Garde
• Unit 2 - Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie as an Avant Garde Play
• Unit 3 - Theme of Social Protest in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menageri

Previous Year Solved Question Papers Included

MEG-17 English (Total-4, Solved-4, Unsolved-0)

• Sample Paper-I
• Sample Paper-II
• June (2023)
• December (2022)

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