British and American Literature

1. Beowulf  (Heaney translation)
2. Everyman
3. Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Geoffrey Chaucer.  General prologue to The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” “The Pardoner’s Tale,” “The Franklin's Tale”
5. William Shakespeare.  King Lear, Richard III
6. John Donne.  “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God,” “The Canonization,” “The Flea”
7. John Milton.  Samson Agonistes
8. Aphra Behn.  Oroonoko
9. Anne Bradstreet.  “The Author to Her Book,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment,” “Upon the Burning of Our House July 10^th, 1666”
10. Alexander Pope.  The Rape of the Lock
11. Jonathan Swift.  Gulliver’s Travels, parts 1-2
12. Jane Austen.  Persuasion
13. William Wordsworth.  “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” “Tintern Abbey”
14. John Keats.  “To Autumn,” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles.”
15. Charlotte Brontë.   Jane Eyre
16. Robert Browning.  “My Last Duchess,” “Andrea del Sarto,” “An Epistle…of Karshish, the Arab Physician”
17. Charles Dickens.  Great Expectations
18. Gerard Manley Hopkins.  “The Windhover,” “God’s Grandeur,” “Binsey Poplars.”
19. Rebecca Harding Davis.  Life in the Iron Mills
20. Nathaniel Hawthorne.  The House of the Seven Gables
21. Herman Melville.  “Benito Cereno,” “Bartleby, The Scrivener”
22. Harriet Jacobs.  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
23. Christina Rossetti. Goblin Market
24. Henry David Thoreau.  Walden
25. Walt Whitman.  “Song of Myself”
26. Emily Dickinson.  Poems 258 (“There's a certain Slant of light”), 435 (“Much Madness is Divinest Sense”), 449 (“I died for beauty, but was scarce”), 712 (“Because I could not stop for Death”), 754 (“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun”), 1732 (“My life closed twice before its close”)
27. Joseph Conrad.  The Secret Agent
28. Stephen Crane.  “The Blue Hotel,” “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
29. Edith Wharton.  The House of Mirth
30. T. S. Eliot.  The Waste Land, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
31. James Joyce.  “The Dead,” “Araby”
32. Virginia Woolf.  To the Lighthouse, “A Room of One’s Own”
33. William Faulkner.  “The Bear”
34. William Butler Yeats.  “Sailing to Byzantium,” “The Second Coming,” “Byzantium,” “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
35. William Carlos Williams.  “The Young Housewife,” “This Is Just to Say,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “Spring and All”
36. Langston Hughes.  “I, Too,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”
37. Tom Stoppard. Arcadia
38. Zora Neale Hurston.  Their Eyes Were Watching God
39. Flannery O’Connor.  “Good Country People,” “The Artificial Nigger”
40. Adrienne Rich.  “Diving into the Wreck,” “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
41. Jean Rhys.  Wide Sargasso Sea
42. Iris Murdoch.  A Severed Head
43. Eugene O’Neill. Long Day’s Journey into Night
44. Leslie Marmon Silko. Ceremony
45. Toni Morrison.  Beloved
46. Brian Friel.  Dancing at Lughnasa

World Literature

1. Job, Song of Songs (King James Bible)
2. Euripides. Medea
3. Christine de Pizan. The Book of the City of Ladies
4. François Voltaire.  Candide
5. Fyodor Dostoevsky.  Notes from the Underground
6. Thomas Mann.  Death in Venice
7. Henrik Ibsen.  A Doll's House
8. Gabriel García Márquez.  “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
9. Wole Soyinka. Death and the King’s Horseman
10. Milan Kundera.  The Farewell Waltz
11. Janet Frame.  Living in the Maniototo
12. Salman Rushdie.  Midnight's Children
13. Lloyd Jones.  Mister Pip

Literary Theory*

1. Roland Barthes.  “The Death of the Author”
2. Hélène Cixous.  “The Laugh of the Medusa”
3. Miklail Bakhtin.  “Heteroglossia in the Novel from Discourse in the Novel”
4. Gilbert & Gubar.  “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship”
5. Edward Said.  Orientalism (excerpts)
6. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.  Between Men (excerpts)
7. Frederic Jameson. “The Political Unconscious”
8. Janice Radway.  “The Act of Reading the Romance”
9. Michel Foucault. The History of Sexuality Vol. 1
10. Judith Butler. Gender Trouble Chapter 3

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