M.A. IN ENGLISH: ISSUES IN MODERN CULTURE 2015-16
AUTHORS AND CONTEXTS READING LIST
AUTHORS – TERM 1 – AUTUMN 2015
1. Flaubert
Michael Sayeau
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary trans. Geoffrey Wall (Penguin) (Please make sure that you obtain
the Wall translation – it’s the best one and it’s important, when dealing with a text in translation,
that we all have the same version.)
Further Reading
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Flaubert, Sentimental Education
Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas
Flaubert, Selected Letters
Marder, Dead Time
Culler, Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty
2. Walter Pater
Matthew Beaumont
o Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance, ed. Matthew Beaumont (OUP, 2010),
esp. the Preface, the Conclusion, the chapters on Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo and
Winckelmann, and the Appendices on Giorgione and ‘Diapheneite’.
o Walter Pater, ‘Style’ [will be made available on Moodle ahead of the seminar)
Further Reading
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Laurel Brake, Walter Pater (Northcote House, 1994)
L. Brake & I. Small, eds, Pater in the 1990s (ELT, 1991)
L. Brake et al, eds, Walter Pater: The Transparencies of Desire (ELT, 2002)
Denis Donohue, Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (Knopf, 1995)
F.C. McGrath, The Sensible Spirit: Walter Pater and the Modernist Paradigm (UP of Florida,
1986)
3. Henry James
Philip Horne
o Henry James, In the Cage, in Selected Tales, ed. John Lyon, Penguin, 2001
o The Turn of the Screw, in The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories, ed. T. J. Lustig, OUP, 1998
Further Reading
o John Carlos Rowe, Henry James and the Other
o Philip Horne. Ed. Henry James: A Life in Letters
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4. Mansfield
Hugh Stevens
o Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, ed. Angela Smith (Oxford University Press, 2002), and
especially the following stories: ‘The Woman at the Store’, ‘How Pearl Button Was
Kidnapped’, ‘Millie’, ‘Prelude’, ‘The Wind Blows’, ‘At the Bay’, ‘The Garden Party’, ‘The Doll’s
House’
Further Reading
o Undiscovered Country: The New Zealand Stories of Katherine Mansfield, ed. Ian A. Gordon
(London: Longman, 1974)
o Katherine Mansfield, The Urewera Notebook, ed., Ian A. Gordon (London: Oxford University
Press, 1978)
o Katherine Mansfield: Selected Letters, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989)
o The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, ed. Margaret Scott (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2002)
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5. Pound
Peter Swaab
o Collected Shorter Poems (Faber), especially the poems in Cathay, Homage to Sextus
Propertius, and a selection from Lustra
o The Cantos (Faber), especially Cantos I-XXX and LXXIV-LXXVI
o Ezra Pound selected by Thom Gunn (Faber Poet To Poet series, 2000)
o Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations (Library of America, 2003)
o Selected Poems 1908-1959 is good, and its selection from The Cantos preferable to Pound’s
own volume of Selected Cantos.
Further Reading
By Pound:
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Literary Essays, ed. T.S. Eliot
Selected Prose 1909-65, ed. William Cookson
Patria Mia (1912)
Gaudier-Brzeska (1916)
By Others:
o Ezra Pound and Music, ed. R.M.Schaefer (1977)
o Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts, ed. Harriet Zines (1980)
o Donald Davie, Studies in Ezra Pound (1991)
o Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (1973)
o David Moody, Ezra Pound: Poet, Vol 1 1885-1920 (2007)
o Ezra Pound: Poet, the Epic Years 1921-1939 (2014)
o Ezra Pound: Penguin Critical Anthology, ed. J.P.Sullivan (1969)
o James Longenbach, Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats and Modernism (1991)
o Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, ed. Ira B. Nadel
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Peter Brooker, Student’s Guide to Ezra Pound
Peter Makin, Pound’s Cantos
Ezra Pound and China, ed. Zhaoming Qian (2003)
Zhaoming Qian, Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams
(1995).
6. Bowen
Greg Dart
o The Heat of the Day (1948)
Additional Primary Reading
o ‘In the Square’, ‘The Demon Lover’, and ‘Mysterious Kor’ from Collected Stories, ed. Angus
Wilson (London: Vintage, 1999).
o ‘London, 1940’, ‘Coming to London’, ‘Postscript to The Demon Lover’, 'Review of the People's
War' from The Mulberry Tree, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).
Further Reading
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Hermione Lee, Elizabeth Bowen (Vintage 1999)
Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow across the Page (Edinburgh, 2003)
Gill Plain, Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (Edinburgh, 1996)
Angus Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (Jonathan Cape, 1991)
7. D.H. Lawrence
Hugh Stevens
o D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, ed. Mark Kinkead-Weekes (Penguin, 2000)
Further Reading
o Anne Fernihough, ed., The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence (2000)
o Morag Shiach, Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
(2004)
o Hilary Simpson, D. H. Lawrence and Feminism (1982)
o Peter Widdowson, ed., D. H. Lawrence (1992)
o John Worthen, D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005)
8. Willa Cather
Peter Swaab
o Willa Cather, Death Comes for Archbishop (1927)
Further Reading
o Will Cather, My Ántonia (1918)
o Willa Cather, ‘Coming, Aphrodite!’ (1920)
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Willa Cather, A Lost Lady (1923)
Willa Cather, The Professor’s House (1925)
Jonathan Goldberg, Willa Cather and Others (2001)
Hermione Lee, Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up (1989)
Marilee Lindemann, Willa Cather: Queering America (1999)
Guy Reynolds, ‘The Ideology of Cather's Catholic Progressivism in Death Comes for the
Archbishop’, Cather Studies 3 (1996)
Website
The Willa Cather Archive http://cather.unl.edu/ has a good deal of useful material, including
electronic versions of the scholarly editions of some of Cather’s novels published by the University
of Nebraska Press. It also includes the full run of the biennial journal Cather Studies, first published
in 1990 (http://cather.unl.edu/index.cs.html).
9. James Joyce
Michael Sayeau
James Joyce, Ulysses, ed. Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior (New York:
Random House, 1986) – available as a Vintage reprint.
Further Reading
Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, Epiphanies (Handout)
Blamires, The New Bloomsday Book (guide to Ulysses)
Kenner, Joyce's Voices
Moretti, 'The Long Goodbye. Ulysses and the End of Liberal Capitalism', Signs Taken for
Wonders
o Attridge, Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History
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10. Alfred Hitchcock
Phil Horne
Films
o Alfred Hitchcock (dir.), Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
o Alfred Hitchcock (dir.), Rear Window (1954)
Further Viewing
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Rebecca (1940)
Spellbound (1945); Notorious (1946)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
The Wrong Man (1957)
Vertigo (1958);
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North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)
Reading
o Richard Allen & S. Ishi Gonzalès, Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays (bfi Publishing, London
1999).
o Charles Barr, English Hitchcock (A Movie Book: Cameron and Hollis, Moffat (Scotland),
1999).
o Jonathan Coe, James Stewart, Leading Man (Bloomsbury: London, 1994).
o Raymond Durgnat, The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (Faber: London, 1974)
o Sidney Gottlieb (ed.), Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews (University
of California Press: London, 1995).
o Patrick McGilligan, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003)
o Tania Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (Methuen:
London & New York, 1988)
o Eric Rohmer & Claude Chabrol, Hitchcock: The First Forty-Four Films (Ungar: New York,
1979; first published as Hitchcock (Presses Universitaires: Paris, 1957))
o Donald Spoto, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock (W.H. Allen: London, 1977)
o Donald Spoto, Alfred Hitchcock: The Dark Side of Genius (Collins: London, 1983)
o John Russell Taylor, The Life and Work of Alfred Hitchcock (Faber: London, 1978)
o François Truffaut, Hitchcock [1968](Granada, 1978)
o Robin Wood, Hitchcock’s Films Revisited [a revision of the 1965 book Hitchcock’s Films]
(Columbia University Press, 1989)
Websites
o ‘The MacGuffin’ webpage, ed. Ken Mogg (‘Alfred Hitchcock Scholars Meet Here!’): links to
many sources: http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/
o The Internet Movie Data Base, of course: www.imdb.com
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AUTHORS – TERM 2 – SPRING 2016
1. Virginia Woolf
Scarlett Baron
o Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
o Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
Further Reading
o Rachel Bowlby, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh,
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Julia Briggs, Reading Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh, 2006)
Hermione Lee, The Novels of Virginia Woolf (Methuen, 1977)
Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (Chatto & Windus, 1997)
Sue Roe and Susan Sellers (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge,
2000)
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: Autobiographical Writings, ed. Jeanne Schulkind, revd by
Hermione Lee (Pimlico, 2002)
2. Laforgue and Eliot
Neil Rennie
o A photocopied handout of material for consideration (Laforgue, Symons, Eliot) will be
provided before the seminar.
Further reading
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Jules Laforgue, Selected Poems, ed. and trans. Graham Dunstan Martin (Penguin, 1998)
T.S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare, ed. Christopher Ricks (Faber, 1996)
Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)
Lyndall Gordon, Eliot’s Early Years (1977)
3. Rhys
o Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930; Penguin, 2000)
o Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (1934; Penguin, 2000)
Nick Shepley
Further Reading
Jean Rhys, Quartet (1928; Penguin, 2000)
Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight (1939; Penguin, 2000)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966; Penguin, 2000)
Jean Rhys, Smile Please: an unfinished autobiography (Andre Deutsch, 1979 or Penguin,
1981)
o Carole Angier, Jean Rhys (Penguin, 1992)
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4. Samuel Beckett
Peter Swaab
o Samuel Beckett, Watt, ed. C.J. Ackerley (Faber, 2009). See also: C.J. Ackerley, Obscure Locks,
Simple Keys: The Annotated Watt. Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2005 (Edinburgh
University Press, 2010)
o Samuel Beckett, Happy Days / Oh les beaux jours: A Bilingual edition, ed. James Knowlson
(Faber, 1978). See also Happy Days: Samuel Beckett’s Production Notebook, ed. James
Knowlson (Faber and Faber, 1985).
Further Reading
o Samuel Beckett, The Letters of Samuel Beckett. Vol. 1, 1929-40 and Vol. 2, 1941-56, ed.
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George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck (Cambridge, 2009,
2011)
Peter Boxall, Since Beckett. Continuum, 2009.
Steven Connor, Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory and Text. Blackwell, 1988
John P. Harrington, The Irish Beckett. Syracuse University Press, 1991
Sean Kennedy, (ed.), Beckett and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, 2010
Hugh Kenner, A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett. Thames and Hudson, 1973
Hugh Kenner, Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study. University of California Press, 1968
James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. Bloomsbury, 1996
Eoin O’Brien, The Beckett Country. Black Cat Press, 1986
Adam Piette, Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett
(Clarendon Press, 1996)
Otto Rauschbauer, (ed.), Ancestral Voices: The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature (1992)
Christopher Ricks, Beckett's Dying Words (Clarendon, 1990)
5. Elizabeth Bishop
Mark Ford
o The Complete Poems 1927-1979 (Chatto and Windus & Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1983)
Please read widely in Bishop's poetry, including these poems: The Map – The Fish – A Cold
Spring – Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance – The Bight – At the
Fishhouses – Brazil, January 1, 1502 – Questions of Travel – First Death in Nova Scotia –
Filling Station – Manuelzinho – The Riverman – In the Waiting Room – Crusoe in England –
Poem – One Art – The End of March – Five Flights Up – North Haven – Sonnet.
o The Collected Prose (Chatto and Windus & Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1984)
o One Art: Letters of Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux (Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux, 1994)
o Exchanging Hats: Paintings, edited by William Benton (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996)
o Edgar Allen Poe and the Jukebox: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments, edited by Alice
Quinn (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006)
o Words in Air: the Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell,
edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton (Faber, 2008)
o Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence, edited by Joelle Bielle
(FSG, 2011)
Websites
These four websites are a very good place to start. They include critical debate on poems,
biographical and other information, links to Bishop reading and being interviewed, and more
detailed bibliographical matter.
o http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/bishop.htm
o http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/us_poetry/Bishop/
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o http://www.uvm.edu/~sgutman/Bishop.html
o http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=420
Further Reading
o David Bromwich, Skeptical Music (2001)
o Anne Colwell, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
o Bonnie Costello, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1991.
o Lorrie Goldensohn, Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1991)
o David Kalstone, Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell.
(revised edition, 1989)
o Lionel Kelly (ed.), Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on John Ashbery and Elizabeth
Bishop (Rodopi, 2000)
o Marilyn May Lombardi, The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1995)
o Lombardi, Marilyn May, editor. The Geography of Gender (University Press of Virginia, 1993)
(See especially the essay on ‘In the Waiting Room’ by Lee Edelman)
o Essays on Elizabeth Bishop From The 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference At WPI (New York:
Peter Lang, 1999)
o George Monteiro (ed.), Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop (Jackson: University of
Mississippi Press, 1996)
o Anne Stevenson, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop (1998)
o Thomas Travisano, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development (1988)
o Thomas Travisano, Modernist Quartet (2000)
o Helen Vendler, ‘The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop', Critical Inquiry, Vol. 13 (1987), 825-838
6. Bob Dylan
Philip Horne
Albums
o Blonde on Blonde (1966)
o Blood on the Tracks (1975)
Further Listening
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Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Oh Mercy (1989)
Love and Theft (2001)
Biograph (1985)
The Bootleg Series Vols 1-3 (1991) are good compilations
Reading
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John Bauldie (ed.), Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan (1992)
Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (2004)
Michael Gray, Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan (2000)
Michael Gray & John Bauldie (eds), All Across the Telegraph: A Bob Dylan Handbook (1987)
Clinton Heylin, Behind the Shades Revisited (2001)
Christopher Ricks, Dylan’s Visions of Sin (2003)
7. Morrison
Nick Shepley
o Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987; Vintage, 2007)
Further Reading
o Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction 134 in The Paris Review:
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1888/the-art-of-fiction-no-134-toni-morrison
o Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970; Vintage, 1999)
o Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992; Vintage, 2001)
o Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998; Vintage, 1999)
o The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison, ed. Justine Tally (Cambridge UP, 2008)
8. Pynchon
Julia Jordan
o Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (1997)
Further Reading
o Hanjo Berressem, ‘Coda: How to Read Pynchon’, in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas
Pynchon, Ed. Inger H. Dalsaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2012). 168–177
o Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds, ed. The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (Rochester,
N.Y.: Camden House, 2005)
o Kathryn Hume, ‘Mason & Dixon’, in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon, ed. Inger
H. Dalsaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
59–70
o Stefan Mattessich, Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of
Thomas Pynchon (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002)
o Michael Wood, ‘Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon’ Raritan 17.4 (1998): 120–130
9. Wallace
Michael Sayeau
o David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
o David Foster Wallace, ‘This is Water’ (2009)
Further Reading
o David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999)
o D.T. Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (2012)
o Cohen and Konstantinou, (eds), The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (2012)
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o Stephen Burn (ed.), Conversations with David Foster Wallace (2012)
10. Houellebecq
Scarlett Baron
o Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory (2010, trans. Gavin Bowd 2012)
o Houellebecq, Submission (2015, trans. Lorin Stein – available from 10 September 2015)
Further Reading and Viewing
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Houellebecq, Whatever (1994, trans. Paul Hammond 1998)
Houellebecq, Atomized (1998, trans. Frank Wynne 2000)
Houellebecq, Platform (2001, trans. Frank Wynne 2002)
Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island (2005, trans. Gavin Bowd 2006)
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, dir. Guillaume Nicloux (2010).
o Delphine Grass, Michel Houellebecq: Literature and Aesthetics in the Era of Globalization
(Oxford: Peter Lang, forthcoming 2015).
o John McCann, Michel Houellebecq: Author of our Times (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010).
o Douglas Morrey, Michel Houellebecq: Humanity and its Aftermath (Liverpool: Liverpool
University Press, 2013).
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CONTEXTS: MODERNITY AND THE CITY – TERM 1 – AUTUMN 2015
1. Urban Forms: Baudelaire and Modern Metropolitan Art
Greg Dart
o Charles Baudelaire, ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ in The Painter of Modern Life and other
essays (London: Phaidon, 2001).
o Charles Baudelaire, ‘Tableaux Parisiens’ (Poems LXXXVI-CIII) from Les Fleurs du Mal, ed. by
E. Starkie (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1959). English/French parallel text available in Selected
Poems ed. Carol Clark (Penguin).
o Charles Baudelaire, Petits Poemes en prose (Le Spleen de Paris), ed. by R. Kopp (Paris:
Gallimard, 1973) also available in English as Paris Spleen 1869, trans. by L. Varèse (New
York: New Directions, 1970).
Background Reading
o Walter Benjamin, ‘The Flaneur’ from Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High
Capitalism (London: Verso Books).
o Ross Chambers, ‘Baudelaire’s Paris’ in The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire (Cambridge,
2005).
Further Reading
o Charles Baudelaire, ‘The Poem of Hashish’ and ‘An Opium-Eater’ from Les Paradis Artificiels,
ed. by Claude Pichois (Paris: Gallimard, 1961). The sections on wine and hashish are
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available in Baudelaire, On Wine and Hashish, ed. by M. Drabble (London: Hesperus, 2002).
o J. A. Hiddleston, ‘Art and its Representation’ Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire.
2. Epiphany and the Everyday
Nick Shepley
o Roland Barthes, ‘The Reality Effect’ (1967) in The Rustle of Language (1984), trans. Richard
Howard (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), 141-149
o Maurice Blanchot, ‘Everyday Speech’ in The Infinite Conversation (1969), trans. Susan
Hanson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 238-245
o Henri Lefebvre, ‘The Theory of Moments’ in Critique of Everyday Life (Volume II):
Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday (1967), trans. John Moore (London: Verso, 2008),
340-358
Further Reading
o Maurice Blanchot, ‘Literature and the Right to Death’ in The Work of Fire (Stanford, 1995)
o Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (1984), trans. Stephen Rendall (Berkeley,
1988)
o Michael Sheringham, Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present
(Oxford, 2006)
3. City Symphonies
Matthew Beaumont
There will be a screening of Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera before the seminar (time and place
to be confirmed), and readings (from Vertov, Eisenstein, Trotsky, and others) will be distributed.
Further Reading
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Peter Burger, Theory of the Avant Garde (University of Minnesota Press, 1984)
Christopher Butler, Early Modernism (OUP, 1994)
Steve Edwards and Paul Wood (eds), Art of the Avant-Gardes (Yale UP, 2004)
Susan McCabe, Cinematic Modernism (CUP, 2005)
Graham Roberts, The Man with a Movie Camera (IB Tauris, 2000)
4. The American Scene
Philip Horne
o Henry James, ‘London’ (1888) in English Hours
o Henry James, The American Scene (1907) (New York chapters) (Out of print; but plenty of
copies can be found at $15 or less at www.bookfinder.com, a useful site; or the whole text is
available online: http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/americanscene.html.)
Further Reading
o Charles Baudelaire, ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ in The Painter of Modern Life and Other
Essays (Phaidon, 2001)
o Walter Benjamin, ‘The Flaneur’, in Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism,
trans. Harry Zohn (Verso, 1976)
o Georg Simmel, ‘The Metropolis and Modern Life’, in David Frisby (ed.), Simmel on Culture
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5. Documenting the City
Michael McCluskey
o John Grierson, ‘First Principles of Documentary’ (1932) in Grierson on Documentary, ed.
Forsyth Hardy (Collins, 1946), 78-90
o William Empson, ‘Proletarian Literature’ (1935) in Some Versions of Pastoral (Penguin,
1995), 11-25
o David Lyon, ‘Introduction’ to Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life (Buckingham:
Open University Press, 2001), 1-11
Further Reading
o Brian Winston, Claiming the Real II, Documentary: Grierson and Beyond (Basingstoke: BFI
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Chapters 2,3,9 and 10
o David Lyon, ‘Chapter Four: Surveillant Sorting in the City’ in Surveillance Society: Monitoring
everyday life (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001), 51-68
o Giuliana Bruno, ‘Motion and Emotion: Film and the Urban Fabric’ in Cities in Transition: The
Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis, eds. Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson (London:
Wallflower Press, 2008), 14-28
6. Graphic Cities
Nick Shepley
o Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, From Hell (Knockabout, 2000)
o Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Jonathan Cape, 2001)
Further Reading
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Will Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art (W.W. Norton, 2008)
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Harper Perennial, 2001)
Chris Ware, Building Stories (Jonathan Cape, 2012)
Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vols I & II) (DC
Comics 2011)
7. Filming New York
Philip Horne
Films by Martin Scorcese
o Mean Streets (1974)
o Taxi Driver (1976)
Further Scorcese Viewing
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Italianamerican (1974)
New York, New York (1977)
Raging Bull (1980)
The King of Comedy (1983)
After Hours (1985)
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o GoodFellas (1990)
o Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Reading
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Peter Brunette (ed.), Martin Scorsese Interviews (Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1999)
Ian Christie and David Thompson (eds), Scorsese on Scorsese (Faber, 2003)
Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver, screenplay (Faber, 1990)
Paul Schrader, Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Berkeley: University of
California, 1972)
Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through
American Movies (Faber 1999; book of excellent long documentary)
Martin Scorsese & Nicholas Pileggi, Goodfellas (script), Faber
Amy Taubin, Taxi Driver (London: British Film Institute, 2000)
Michael Henry Wilson, Scorsese on Scorsese (Cahiers du Cinéma, 2011)
Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver (script) (Faber)
Amy Taubin, Taxi Driver (BFI Modern Classics)
Paul A. Woods (ed.), Scorsese: A Journey through the American Psyche (Plexus)
For early script for The King of Comedy, see http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=king_of_comedy
8. Suburbia
Beci Dobbin
o George and Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody (1892)
o Elizabeth Bowen, ‘Attractive Modern Homes’ [1941] in The Collected Stories of Elizabeth
Bowen (Vintage, 1999)
o Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (1961)
Further Reading
o David Trotter, ‘Inside Suburbia’, The English Novel in History, 1895-1920 (1993)
o Kate Flint, ‘Fictional Suburbia’ in Popular Fictions: Essays in Literature and History, ed. Peter
Humm, Peter Widdowson & Peter Stigant (1986)
o Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1989)
9. Psychogeography
Michael McCluskey
o Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Chapter Two: ‘The Uses of
Sidewalks’
o Iain Sinclair, Lights Out for the Territory – Chapter 1, Parts 1 and 2 (pp. 1-33)
10. Queer Fictions and the City
Hugh Stevens
Extracts will be made available from:
o Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar (1948)
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o Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance (1978)
o Oscar Moore, A Matter of Life and Sex (1991)
o Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony (1997)
Further Reading
o Les Brookes, Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics (New York:
Routledge, 2009)
o Guy Davidson, Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay
and Lesbian Subcultures (New York: Palgrave, 2012)
o Stevens, Hugh, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing (Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2011).
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