Part I – One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)
Black Rain (Ibuse)
Like Water For Chocolate (Esquivel)
Part II - Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Poetry – Donne, Browning, Frost, Eliot
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Part III - House of the Spirits (Allende)
The Stone Angel (Laurence)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood)
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
Part IV - Poetry – Yeats, Heaney, Carson, Atwood, Cummings
Brave New World (Huxley)
Theban Plays (Sophocles)
Non- Fiction Articles – Barthes, Deane, Derrida, Graff, Jehlen, Mitchell
Poetry (Part 4):
W. B. Yeats An Irish Airman Forsees his Death
September 1913
Easter 1916
Seamus Heaney - Tollund Man
Digging
The Toome Road
Ciaran Carson - Belfast Confetti
Bloody Hand
Tib's Eve
Catmint Tea
Margaret Atwood - Spelling
Bored
Siren Song
Sekmet, The Lion-Headed Goddess of War
ee cummings - Humanity I Love You
but why should
Buffalo Bill’s
Non-fiction:
Barthes, Roland. “The Death of The Author”.
Deane, Seamus. “Imperialism/Nationalism”.
Derrida, Jacques. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”.
Graff, Gerald. “Disliking Books at an Early Age”.
Jehlen, Myra. “Gender”.
Mitchell, W. J. T. “Representation”
Part I - Medea (Euripedes)
A Doll’s House (Ibsen)
Death and the Maiden (Dorfman)
Part II - Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Poetry – Donne, Browning, Frost, Eliot
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Part III - House of the Spirits (Allende)
The Stone Angel (Laurence)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood)
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
Part IV – 1984 (Orwell)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Suskind)
Poetry - Roethke, Plath, Sexton, Millay, Cummings
Non-fiction - Swift, Mitchell, Barthes, Jehlen, Derrida
Poetry (Part 4):
Roethke – The Geranium
My Papa’s Waltz
Plath – Metaphors
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Sexton – The Fury of Overshoes
You, Doctor Martin
Lullaby
Millay – First Fig
I shall forget you presently, my dear
I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed
Cummings – plato told
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
mr youse needn’t be so spry
may I feel
Buffalo Bill’s
Non-fiction:
Barthes, Roland. “The Death of The Author”.
Derrida, Jacques. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”.
Jehlen, Myra. “Gender”.
Mitchell, W. J. T. “Representation”
Swift, Jonathon. “A Modest Proposal”
Poetry (Part 2):
John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Death, Be Not Proud
Batter My Heart
Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star
Song: Sweetest Love I Do Not Go
The Flea
The Good-Morrow
The Sun Rising
Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
Incident of the French Camp
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Andrea del Sorto
Robert Frost -
Home Burial
After Apple Picking
Mending Wall
“Out, out—“
Birches
TS Eliot -
The Hollow Men
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock