Department of English
ENGL 494 Advanced Literary Survey Reading List
OPTION ONE
NB: Selections prefaced by an asterisk are currently in the process of being compiled by faculty. Copies will be made available in the English Department office by December 30, 2005
British (All MA candidates):
Chaucer: from The Canterbury Tales: "General Prologue" and tales
told by the Wife of
Bath, the Pardoner, and the Nun's Priest
Shakespeare: Othello, Merchant of Venice
Spenser: Book I of Fairie Queene
Milton: Books 1, 2, and 9 from Paradise Lost
Swift: from Gulliver's Travels, Book 4: "Voyage to the Country of
the
Houyhnhnms"
Pope: Epistle I from "An Essay on Man"
Austen: Emma
Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Shelley: Frankenstein
Keats: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "On Sitting Down to Read
King Lear"
Wordswoth: "Tintern Abbey" and "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"
Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind" and "Defense of Poetry"
Browning: "Andrea Del Sarto"
Rossetti: "In an Artist's Studio" and "Winter my Secret"
C. M. Hopkins: "God's Grandeur" and "Pied Beauty"
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
American (All MA candidates):
*selected poetry: Bradstreet, "The Prologue To Her Book," "Here
Follows Some Verses
Upon the Burning of our House," "The Flesh and the Spirit,"
"The Author to Her
Book" and Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America,"
"To his Excellency
G. Washington," "On Imagination"
Dickinson: selections (numbers as listed in Johnson, ed., The Complete
Poems of ED):
49, 106, 165, 173, 178, 181, 216, 255, 258, 371, 426, 974, 985, 994, 84,
106, 175, 184, 185, 193, 204, 216, 280, 299, 1036, 1071, 1056, 1116, 70,
124, 185, 186, 230, 252, 284, 302, 319, 521, 1184, 1219
Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Thoreau: Walden, "Resistance to Civil Government"
Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown," "Rappacini's Daughter,"
"The Birth-mark"
Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Melville: The Piazza Tales
Roth: Call It Sleep
Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom
Ellison: Invisible Man
*selected poetry, modern and contemporary
For students in creative writing:
Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Marjorie Perloff, Poetic License
Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Non-fiction. Published
by Longman (any edition will do)
*selected essays, creative nonfiction
For students in rhetoric/pedagogy/literacy:
Aristotle, excerpts from On Rhetoric available in Matsen, Rollinson, &
Sousa, eds.,
Readings from Classical Rhetoric)
Victor Villanueva, ed., Cross-Talk in Composition Theory
Cushman, Ellen et al, eds., Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook
Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination
Deborah Brandt, Literacy as Involvement
For students in literary criticism:
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
John Guillory, Cultural Capital
Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction
Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Luis Urrea, any two chapters from By the Lake of Sleeping Children
*Kerwin Lee Klein, "On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse,"
in
Representations, Winter 2000