Reading list 2013-2

Hi, everyone,

Here's the reading list for this semester. Lorena will have a calendar made out for us next class, and we'll upload that too.

See you all next class,
JC

Recommended listening: Moby Dick Big Read, Peninsula Arts with Plymouth University.

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’
Joan Didiot (1934), essay to be determined
Alice Walker (1944-). ‘In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens’

Narrative Fiction
H. James. The Aspern Papers
Kate Chopin (1851-1904). The Awakening
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

Cormac McCarthy. The Road

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). "The Big Two-Hearted River"
Carson McCullers (1917-1967). The Ballad of the Sad Café
Toni Morrison (1931-). Sula

Cormac McCarthy (1933). The Road
Charles Johnson (1948-): Middle Passage

Jhumpa Lahiri: one of her stories.
The Necessary Angel: Modern American Poetry (selection from the Norton Anthology)
Robert Frost (1874-1963). Choose 2 poems from the Anthology
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). Choose 2 poems from the Anthology.
e.e. cummings (1894-1962): ‘Buffalo Bill’ and another short poems.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967). ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’/ ‘Mother to Son’/ ‘Mulatto’/ ‘Young Gal’s Blues’
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) 

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) "Howl", Howl (film) [I´ll distribute copies of the film]

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

Bibliography of Useful Sources

Alter, Robert. 1975. Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

The American Transcendentalists. 1957. Ed. Percy Miller. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc.

Autores contemporáneos de Quebec. Breve antología. 1993. Ed. Louis Jolicoeur. México: Dirección de Literatura, UNAM

Bennett, Paula. 1990. My Life a Loaded Gun. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Beyond the Borders. American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory. 2003. Ed. Deborah L. Madsen. London: Pluto Press.

Bigsby, Christopher and Temperley, Howard. 2005. A New Introduction to American Studies. London: Longman

_______________. 2006. Remembering Arthur Miller. London: Methuen

Booth, Wayne. 1961. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Borges, Jorge Luis. 1971. An Introduction to American Literature. Lexington: Lexington University Press of Kentucky.

Bradbury, Malcolm. 1992. The Modern American Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brinnin, John Malcolm. 1987. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World. Foreword John Ashbery. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Inc.

Brooke-Rose, Christine. 1981. A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative & Structure, Especially of the Fantastic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. 1998. Ed. Robert S. Levine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture. 2006. Ed. Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cawelti, John G. 1976. Adventure, Mystery, and Romance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press..

Cunliffe, Marcus. 1967. The Literature of the United States. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.

Chase, Richard. 1957. The American Novel and its Tradition. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.

Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory. 1993. Ed. and Intro. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd

Culler, Jonathan. 1983.  On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. London: Routledge.

_____________. 1981. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

DuPlessis, Rachael Blau. 1990. The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall Inc.

Eagleton, Terry. 1983. Literary Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd.

Eliot, T.S. 1960 (1932). Selected Essays of T.S. Eliot. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World Inc.

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. 1989. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin. London/New York: Routledge

Feminism/Postmodernism. 1990. Ed. Linda J. Nicholson. London: Routledge.

Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship. 1987. Ed. Shari Benstock. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Fender, Stephen. 1983. American Literature in Context I: 1620-1830.  London/New York: Methuen.

Fiedler, Leslie. 1966. Love and Death in the American Novel. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd. (Revised edition).

___________.  1967. Waiting for the End. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.

Friedan, Betty. 1963. The Feminist Mystique. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Inc.

Frye, Northrop. 1967. Anatomy of Criticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

____________. 1963.  Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World Inc.

Geismar, Maxwell. 1971. Writers in Crisis: The American Novel 1925-1940. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc.

The Gender of Modernism. A Critical Anthology. 1990. Ed. Bonnie Kim Scott & Mary Lynn Broe.  Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan. 1979. The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven/London: Yale University Press.

___________________________________, No Man’s Land. The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, 3 Vols. 1987. New Haven/London: Yale University Press.

hooks, bell. 1985. Ain’t I a Woman. Black Women and Feminism. London: Pluto Press.

________ . 1989. Talking Back: thinking feminist, thinking black. Boston: South End Press.

Howe, Irving. 1970. Decline of the New. New York: Horizon Press.

Hutcheon, Linda. 1988. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York/London: Routledge.

_____________.  1989. The Politics of Postmodernism. New York/London: Routledge.

_____________.  1994. Irony’s Edge. The Theory and Politics of Irony. New York/London: Routledge.

Jablon, Madelyn. 1997. Black Metafiction. Self-Consciousness in African American Literature. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press

Kraditor, Aileen S. 1968. Up from the Pedestal. Selected Writings in the History of American Feminism. New York: Quadrangle.

Lewis, R.W.B. 1955. The American Adam. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Major Writers of Early American Literature. 1972. Ed. Everett Emerson.  Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.

Marx, Leo. 1964. The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mellard, James M. 1980. The Exploded Form. The Modernist Novel in America. Urbana/Chicago/London: University of Illinois Press

Michel, Alfredo. 1993. El teatro norteamericano. Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora.

Mills, Nicolaus. 1973. American and English Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. An Antigenre Critique and Comparison. Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press.

Millett, Kate. 1977. Sexual Politics. London: Virago.

Modern Poetry. Essays in Criticism. 1968. Ed. John Hollander. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Moers, Ellen. 1976. Literary Women. The Great Writers. New York: Doubleday.

Moi, Toril. 1985. Sexual/Textual Politics. Feminist Literary Theory. London: Routledge.

Moore, Marianne. 1961.  A Marianne Moore Reader. New York: The Viking Press.

The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 9. 1983. Ed. Boris Ford. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.

Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing. 2001. Ed. Dale M. Bauer and Philip Gould. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Olsen, Tillie. 1980.  Silences. London: Virago.

Ostriker, Alice. 1987. Stealing the Language. London: The Woman’s Press.

Patán, Federico. 1994.  El cine norteamericano. Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora.

The Poetics of Gender. 1986. Ed. Nancy Miller. New York:  Columbia University Press.

‘Race’, Writing and Difference. 1986. Ed. Henry Louis Gates. Chicago/London: University of Chicago.

Reynolds, Guy. 1999. Twentieth-Century American Women’s Fiction. A Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd.

Rich, Adrienne. 1993. What Is Found There. Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Rodríguez, Argentina. 1994. EUA: sus novelas. Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora.

Rose, Jacqueline. 1992. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. London: Virago.

Russell, Sandi. 1990. Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present. London: Pandora Press.

Said, Edward W. 1983. The World, the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Showalter, Elaine. 1991. Sister’s Choice. Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Spears, Monroe K. 1970. Dionysus and the City. New York: Oxford University Press.

Stevens, Wallace. 1984 (1960). The Necessary Angel. Essays on Reality and the Imagination. London: Faber and Faber Ltd.

Tanner, Tony. 1971. City of Words. American Fiction 1950-1970. New York: Harper and Row.

The Theory of the Novel. 1967. Ed. Philip Stevik. New York: The Free Press.

Toni Morrison. 1990. Ed. and Intro. Harold Bloom.  New York/Philadelphia: Chelsea House.

Tytell, John. 1987. Ezra Pound. The Solitary Volcano. London: Bloomsbury.

Wilson, Edmund. The Shock of Recognition. Modern Library.

______________, 1977. Patriotic Gore. Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. New York: The Noonday Press.

Wolff, Janet. 1990. Feminine Sentences. Essays on Women and Culture. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Wolstenholme, Susan. 1993. Gothic (Re)Visions. Writing Woman as Readers. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Zamora, Lois Parkinson. 1989. Writing the Apocalypse. Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.