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Reading List for FLLD Ph.D. Candidates
June 2005
ENGLISH ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD AND MIDDLE AGES
| The Battle of Maldon | Beowulf | Seafarer | Wanderer | Dream of the Rood |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | The Second Shepherds Play | Everyman | Noah's Flood | Canterbury Tales |
THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
Poetry (Unless specified, all selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
| Sonnet and sonnet sequence | Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey) | Edmund Spenser: The Shepherd's Calendar | The Faerie Queene (Books I & II) |
| John Milton: Paradise Lost | Christopher Marlowe: Hero & Leander | Sir Thomas Wyatt | John Donne |
| Shakespeare | John Milton |
Prose
Sir Thomas More: Utopia
Drama
| Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus | Ben Jonson: Volpone | John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi |
| William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet | Hamlet | Othello |
| Macbeth | Twelfth Night | King Lear |
THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660-1789)
Poetry
| John Dryden: MacFlecknoe | Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock |
Prose
| Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels | Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Drama
| William Wycherley: The Country Wife | John Dryden: All for Love |
| William Congreve: The Way of the World | Richard B. Sheridan School for Scandal |
Novel
| Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe | Samuel Richardson: Pamela | Henry Fielding: Tom Jones |
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Poetry (All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
| William Blake | William Wordsworth | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Lord Byron |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Keats | Lord Alfred Tennyson | Robert Browning |
| Mathew Arnold | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Elizabeth Barrett |
Novels
| Jane Austin: Pride and Prejudice | Charles Dickens: Great Expectations | Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights |
| George Eliot: Middlemarch | Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre | Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
Drama
| Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest | Lord Byron: Manfred | Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound |
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Poetry (All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
| Thomas Hardy | Philip Larkin | W. H. Auden |
| Dylan Thomas | W. B. Yeats | T. S. Eliot |
Novels
| Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness | Conrad: Lord Jim | E. M. Forster: A Passage to India | Forster: A Room with a View |
| D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love | Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover | Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse | Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway |
| James Joyce: Dubliners | Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter | George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman | Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange | V. S. Naipaul: A Bend in the River | Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children |
| J. M. Coetzee: Life and Times of Michael K |
Drama
| T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral | John Synge: Riders to the Sea | Sean O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock |
| George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara | Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot | Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party |
AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1900
Early American Literature (All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature)
| Anne Bradstreet | Edward Taylor | Jonathan Edwards | Thomas Paine |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
| Washington Irving: "Rip Van Winkle" | James Fenimore Cooper: "The Last of Mohicans" | Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature," "Self-Reliance," "The American Scholar" | Henry David Thoreau: Walden | Walt Whitman: "Song of My Self" |
| Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, "Bartleby the Scrivener" | Emily Dickinson (Selections from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature) | Samuel Clemens: The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn |
| Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady , Daisy Miller | Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter | Jack London: The Call of the Wild |
| Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage | Kate Chopin: The Awakening |
AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER 1900
Poetry (All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature)
| Robert Frost | Ezra Pound | T. S. Eliot | William C. Williams | E. E. Cummings |
| Wallace Stevens | Sylvia Plath | Allen Ginsberg | Anne Sexton | Gary Snyder |
| Robert Lowell | Elizabeth Bishop | Langston Hughes | Adrienne Rich |
Novels
| Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence | Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio | Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises |
| William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! | F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby | John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath |
| Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man | J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye | Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire |
| E. L. Doctorow: The Book of Daniel | Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior | Joy Kogawa: Obasan |
| Silko: Ceremony | Toni Morrison: Beloved |
Drama
| Eugene O' Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night | Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman | Thornton Wilder: Our Town |
| Tennessee Williams: A Street Car Named Desire | Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Criticism and Theory
Classical Criticism and Theory (Selections from Critical Theory since Plato, 1992 ed.)
| Plato: Republic from Book I, from Book II, from Book X | Aristotle: Poetics | Longinus: On the Sublime |
| Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry | John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | David Hume: "Of the Standard of Taste" |
| Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism |
Edmund Burke: from A Philosophical Inquiry into Introduction "Of Taste" |
Immanuel Kant: Critique of Judgment from First Book "Analytic of the Beautiful" from Second Book "Analytic of the Sublime" |
| William Wordsworth: Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: |
Matthew Arnold: Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" from The Study of Poetry |
Modern Criticism and Theory (Selections from The Norton Anthology: Theory and Criticism, unless marked by * )
| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: from The Communist Manifesto | Sigmund Freud: "The Uncanny," "Fetishism" | T.S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" |
| Antonio Gramsci: "The Formation of the Intellectuals" | Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" | Mikhail M. Bakhtin: "Discourse in the Novel" |
| Jacques Lacan: "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience" | Northrop Frye: "The Archetypes of Literature" | Roman Jakobson: "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles" |
| Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author" | *J. Hillis Miller: "The Critic as Host" from Deconstruction and Criticism | Raymond Williams: Marxism and Literature Part 1. Chapter 3 "Literature" |
| Frantz Fanon: "On National Culture" | Gilles Deleuze and FéLix Guattari: Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature from Chapter 3 "What Is a Minor Literature?" | Jean-François Lyotard: "Defining the Postmodern" |
| Michel Foucault: "What Is an Author?" "Truth and Power" | Wolfgang Iser: "Interaction Between Text and Reader" | E. D. Hirsh JR.: "Objective Interpretation" |
| Jean Baudrillard: from The Precession of Simulacra | *Jacques Derrida: "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" from Writing and Difference Trans Alan Bass. London; Routledge, 1978. 278-293. | Fredric Jameson: The Political Unconscious "Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act" |
| Hélène Cixous: "The Laugh of the Medusa" | Julia Kristeva: from Revolution in Poetic Language, Part I. "The Semiotic and the Symbolic" | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "Can the Subaltern Speak?" |
| *Homi K. Bhabha: "Of Mimicry and Man" from The Location of Culture | Judith Bulter: Gender Trouble from Chapter 3. "Subversive Bodily Acts" |