READING LIST: HISTORIA LITERARIA VII* 2011-2
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
The Exploded Form
Essays
H. James (1843-1916): ‘The Art of Fiction’
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): ‘Composition as Explanation’
Toni Morrison (1931-): ‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature’
Susan Sontag (1933-2004): ‘Against Interpretation’ (1966)
Alice Walker (1944-): ‘In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens’
Narrative Fiction
H. James: The Aspern Papers/ The Turn of the Screw
Kate Chopin (1851-1904): The Awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), ‘A Jury of Her Peers’
Edith Wharton (1862-1937): ‘Ethan Frome’
Willa Cather (1873-1947): ‘Neighbor Rosicky’
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): ‘The Good Anna’
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941): ‘Queer’
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980): ‘Old Mortality’
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960): ‘The Gilded Six-Bits’ and an essay
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’
William Faulkner (1897-1962): As I Lay Dying
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): Extracts from In Our Times
Carson McCullers (1917-1967): The Ballad of the Sad Café
Toni Morrison (1931-): Sula
Charles Johnson (1948-): Middle Passage
The Necessary Angel: Modern American Poetry (selection from the Norton Anthology)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): ‘The Snow Man’/ ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’/ ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’/ ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’
W.C. Williams (1883-1963): ‘Queen-Ann’s-Lace’/ ‘The Term’/ ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’/ extracts from ‘Paterson’
E. Pound (1885-1972): ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts’/The Cantos (I)
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886-1961): ‘Oread’/ ‘The Walls Do Not Fall’
M. Moore (1887-1972): ‘The Past is the Present’/ ‘The Fish’/ ‘To a Snail’/ ‘Poetry’/ ‘The Student’/ ‘Bird-Witted
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
e.e. cummings (1894-1962): ‘Buffalo Bill’ and others
Langston Hughes (1902-1967): ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’/ ‘Mother to Son’/ ‘Mulatto’/ ‘Young Gal’s Blues’
Charles Olson (1910-1970): Selections from The Maximus Poems
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Denise Levertov (1923-1997), Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), John Ashbery (1927-), Adrienne Rich (1929-), Gary Snyder (1930-), Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Rita Dove (1952-).
Please make sure to have The Norton Anthology for this course. See Biblio. on blog.
* This list may be changed depending on the students’ participation and input, but these texts should be read before the semester begins.
