Erasmus Intensive Programme
Writing the Mediterranean
Malta,
24 March-5 April 2013
COMPLETE PROGRAMME AND READING LISTS
(For Students that have chosen SEMINAR B)
Important Preliminary Notes:
Hereafter you will find a detailed Programme and Reading lists.
Lectures, which take place in the morning, will be followed by Question & Answers time.
Seminars take place in the afternoon, and they will be based on the discussion of the set
texts, which you are expected to have read in advance and be prepared to discuss.
Seminar B is coordinated by Prof. Lucia Boldrini (l.boldrini@gold.ac.uk); her presence
throughout the seminar series will help you establish links between sessions; other
lecturers will also participate and contribute additional expertise, However, the Seminar
should be led by YOUR comments and questions.
Short details of the relevant reading (required or recommended) appear in the day-by-day
Programme. Full publication details of the required and recommended texts are given in
the reading lists that follow.
What is marked as Required reading will be discussed in your chosen seminars: you
must read this in advance of the start of the programme, and must be prepared to discuss
it. Whenever possible, PDF files or links to electronic texts will be provided, but you must
obtain your own copy of books to be read in their entirety.
Texts marked as Recommended reading are those that lecturers will refer to in their
lectures. Being familiar with this material will therefore be essential to understanding and
engaging with the lectures: you should read as much of it as you can before the start of
the programme. (Note that some of it coincides with your required seminar reading.)
Whenever possible, PDF files will be made available, but you should obtain your own
copies of books to be read in their entirety.
A secondary reading list will also be made available nearer to the beginning of the
programme (or, for some texts, during the programme).
DO NOT be intimidated by the length of the reading list!!
Full publication details of all texts will be given below, but, in most cases, the
recommended or required reading will only consist of short excerpts (often just a few
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pages). These will be available as PDF files, and the full details are in case you wish to
read more from a particular text.
Programme
Sunday 24 March
Arrival
19.00
Registration and Presentation of the programme
Monday 25 March
9.30-11.00
Prof. Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths) “Introduction: Representations of the
Mediterranean”
11.30-1.00
Prof. Peter Vassallo (Malta), “British Writers and the Experience of Italy”
Recommended reading: Mme de Staël, Corinne: or Italy;
Percy Shelley, “Lines written among the Euganean Hills”, “Ode to
the West Wind”, “Julian and Maddalo”, “Ode to Naples”, “The
Triumph of Life”
[all reading will be provided in PDF files]
2.30-4.30
Seminar B: From the ancient Mediterranean to the postcolonial
Required reading: The Odyssey (focus especially on books 9-13);
Dante, Inferno, canto XXVI of Ulysses;
Derek Walcott, “The Schooner Flight”
[Walcott and Dante will be provided as PDF files]
Tuesday 26 March
9.30-11.00
Prof Fernando Cioni (Florence), “Shakespeare and the Mediterranean”
Recommended reading: Shakespeare, Othello, Antony and
Cleopatra
11.30-1.00
Prof. Daniel Massa (Malta), “Marlowe and Machiavelli: The Jew of Malta
and Tamburlaine”
Recommended reading: Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine;
Machiavelli, excerpts from The Prince
[Excerpts from Machiavelli will be provided as PDF file]
2.30-4.30
Seminar B: Seductions of the South
Required reading: Gide, The Immoralist
Wednesday 27 March
9.30-11.00
Dr. Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths), “The Victorians and Italy”
Recommended reading: Excerpts from: Charles Dickens, Pictures
from Italy;
John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice and Mornings in Florence;
Henry James, Italian Hours and Daisy Miller;
George Eliot, Middlemarch
[all reading will be provided in PDF files]
11.30-1.00
Dr James Corby (Malta), “Forster’s A Room With a View”
Reading: Forster’s A Room With a View
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2.30-4.30
Joint Seminar: British Modernist constructions of Italy
Required reading: Forster, A Room with a View
Thursday 28 March
9.30-11.00
Prof. Stella Borg Barthet (Malta), “Writing Egypt: some contemporary
examples”
Recommended reading: Excerpts from: Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar
Street;
Sonallah Ibrahim, The Committee;
Nawal al-Sadawi, Woman at Point Zero;
Edwar al-Kharrat, Girls of Alexandria;
Leila Ahmed, A Border Passage;
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
[All excerpts will be provided in PDF files]
11.30-1.00
Prof. Ivan Callus (Malta), “Growing Old in the Mediterranean: Some
Considerations on a Short Text by J M Coetzee”
Recommended reading: J. M. Coetzee, “As a Woman Grows
Older”
[Text will be provided in PDF file, or can be read at:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jan/15/as-awoman-grows-older/]
2.30-4.30
Seminar B: Writing Egypt
Required reading: Sonallah Ibrahim, Zaat
Friday 29 March (Good Friday, Public Holiday)
Optional Afternoon Excursion: Visit to significant churches and Good Friday procession
Saturday 30 March
9.30-11.00
Prof. Mauro Pala (Cagliari): “The Reluctant Island: Sardinia and the
Mediterranean”
Recommended reading: Excerpts from: D. H. Lawrence, Sea and
Sardinia
Sergio Atzeni, Bakunin’s Son
Marcello Fois, Memory of the Abyss
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF files]
11.30-1.00
Dr. Norbert Bugeja (Kent), “Mediterranean Blues? Orhan Pamuk's
Istanbul: Memories of a City”
Reading: Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories of a City
2.30-4.30
Joint Seminar: Cities of the Mediterranean
Required reading: Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories of a City
Sunday 31 March (Easter, Public Holiday)
Full Day Excursion to Megalithic temples and other important sites
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Monday 1 April
9.30-11.00
Dr. Jane Stabler (St Andrews), “Boccaccio's Lore”: Byron and the Shelleys
on the Decameron”
Recommended reading: Byron, Don Juan Cantos I-III;
Percy Shelley, “Peter Bell” III;
[Texts will be provided in PDF files]
11.30-1.00
Dr. Carole Sweeney (Goldsmiths), “Fantasia: Writing, Violence, Desire”
Reading: Assia Djebar, Fantasia
2.30-4.30
Seminar B: History, violence and desire in Algeria
Required reading: Assia Djebar, Fantasia
Tuesday 2 April
9.30-11.00
Prof. Peter Dunwoodie (Goldsmiths), “Fictional Representations of the
French presence in the Maghreb”
Recommended reading: Albert Camus, The First Man;
Assia Djebar, Algerian White: A Narrative;
[Excerpts from Dejbar will be provided as PDF file]
11.30-1.00
Dr. Maria Frendo (Malta), “Camus and The Outsider: The Rhetoric of the
Mediterranean Text: Causality, Metaphor, and Irony”
Recommended reading: Camus, The Outsider (also translated as
The Stranger)
2.30-4.30
Seminar B: Growing up in Algeria:
Required reading: Camus, The First Man
Wednesday 3 April
9.30-11.00
Prof. Nicholas Roe (St Andrews), “John Keats’s voyage to Italy and his
journey from Naples to Rome”
Recommended reading: John Keats, letters from 1820; poems: “To
Autumn”, “The Fall of Hyperion”, “The Day is gone”, “To Fanny”, “I
cry your mercy”, ”This living hand”, “Bright star!”, “Ode to Fanny”;
consult a biography and read about Keats’s final year, from 1820 to
his death in February 1821.
[Keats’s poems will be made available in PDF files]
11.30-1.00
Prof. Marijan Dović (Nova Gorica; SRC SAZU), “Nationalism and
Literature in the European Mediterranean”
Recommended reading: Itamar Even-Zohar, “The Role of
Literature in the Making of the Nations of Europe: a Socio-Semiotic
Study”;
Miroslav Hroch, “From National Movement to the Fully-formed
Nation: The Nation-Building Process in Europe”;
Joep Leerssen, “Nationalism and the Cultivation of Culture”;
Marijan Dović, “The Canonization of Cultural Saints: An
Introduction”
[all texts available as PDF files]
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2.30-4.30
Seminar B: Cyclopic Nationalisms
Required reading: Homer, The Odyssey, Book 9 (episode of the
Cyclops);
James Joyce, “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses
[Joyce’s chapter will be made available as PDF file]
Thursday 4 April
9.30-11.00
Prof. Ana Gabriela Macedo (Braga), Visual Representations of the
Mediterranean
Recommended reading: Adrienne Rich, “Notes toward a Politics of
Location”;
Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and
Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”;
Rosi Braidotti, “Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project”;
Griselda Pollock, “The Politics of Theory: Generations and
Geographies in Feminist Theory and the Histories of Art Histories”
[all texts available as PDF files]
11.30-1.00
Joint Seminar: general discussion
2.30—
Screening of film(s) on / set in the Mediterranean
Friday 5 April
Departure
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Writing the Mediterranean
Malta, 24 March-5 April 2013
SEMINAR B
Reading Lists
1) Required reading
NB: Required reading will be discussed in seminars: you must read this in advance of the
start of the programme, and must be prepared to discuss it in the seminar. Whenever
possible, PDF files or links to electronic texts will be provided, but you must obtain your
own copy of books that must be read in their entirety.
(This list is organised alphabetically; for the order and context in which they will be read,
please see the day-by-day programme)
Alighieri, Dante, Inferno, canto XXVI (Dante’s encounter with Ulysses);
[The text will be available as PDF file]
If you want to read more from the Inferno, there are various English translations:
John Sinclair’s (Oxford World’s Classics) is in prose, with facing Italian text
(commentary and notes are good); if you prefer attempts at verse translations, Mark
Musa’s (Penguin), is a good one, with some introduction and annotations; Penguin
has recently issued a new translation by Fitzpatrick. The translation by R. and J.
Hollander (Random House, in verse, published alongside the Italian original) has
very good notes and commentary, but it is somewhat more expensive. The PDF of
canto XXVI will be from this edition. If you can read Dante in the original, do!
Camus, Albert, The First Man
[Please obtain your own copy, e.g. the one translated by D. Hapgood, Penguin,
2001; or, if you can, you may want to read the French original, Le Premier homme]
Djebar, Assia, Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
[Please obtain your own copy: the English translation is published by Heinemann,
1993; or you may read the original French, L’Amour, la fantasia]
Gide, André The Immoralist
[Please obtain your own copy, e.g. the, trans. by D. Watson, Intro by Alan Sheridan
(Penguin, 2000). if you can, you may want to read the French original,
L’Immoraliste. The Dover edition (1996) has the French text and, facing, the
English translation by S. Appelbaum]
Forster, E. M., A Room with a View
[Please obtain your own copy, e.g. the one ed. by O. Stallybrass, Penguin, 2008]
Homer, The Odyssey (read it all if you can, but focus especially on books 9-13);
[Please obtain your own copy, in whatever language (including, if you can and wish,
ancient Greek). If you want to read it in English, Penguin’s most recent translation,
by R. Fagles (1996, 2006), is very readable and easy to find; the previous Penguin
translation, by Rieu (1950, revised and re-issued in 2003), is still in circulation too.
A text with a strong sense of rhythm and energy (rather than strict faithfulness to
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the original) is Stanley Lombardo’s translation, published by Hackett (avoid “The
Essential Odyssey” which is an abridged version). Another good translation is
Robert Fitzgerald’s, published by Vintage (most recent re-issue, 2010)]
Ibrahim, Sonallah, Zaat (read it all, but focus especially on chapters 1-4, 9-14, 18-19)
[Please obtain your own copy: there is only one translation into English, by Anthony
Calderback, published by the American University in Cairo Press, 2001]
Joyce, James, “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses
[This will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read more from the novel, the Penguin edition ed. by D. Kiberd has a
good set of notes and introduction; the Oxford World’s Classics’, ed. by J. Johnson,
has excellent notes and introduction; it reproduces the original 1922 text.
Pamuk, Orhan, Istanbul: Memories of a City
[Please obtain your own copy, e.g.: London: Faber, 2006]
Walcott, Derek, “The Schooner Flight”
[This will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read more of Walcott’s poetry, browse through the Selected Poems
(Faber, 2009) or the Collected Poems 1948-84 (Faber, 1992). For more poetry with
a Homeric theme, read Omeros (Faber, first published in 1990, frequently re-issued
since)
2) Additional recommended reading:
NB: Recommended reading: lecturers will refer to these texts, and being familiar with this
material will be essential to understanding and engaging with the lectures. You should
read as much as you can from this list before the start of the programme. (When the
recommended reading coincides with the required reading for Seminar B, this is not listed
here.) Whenever possible, PDF files will be made available, but you should obtain your
own copy of books to be read in their entirety.
(This list is organised alphabetically; for the order and context in which they will be read,
please see the day-by-day programme)
Ahmed, Leila, A Border Passage: From Cairo to America
[Excerpts will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read more of it, the book is published by Penguin (1999)
Atzeni, Sergio, Bakunin’s Son
[The text or excerpts from it will be made available as PDF file if possible]
The English edition is published by Italica Press (New York, 1996); or, if you can,
you may want to read the Italian original, Il figlio di Bakunin
Braidotti, Rosi, “Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project”, Chapter VIII from
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist
Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)
[The text will be made available as PDF file]
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord, Don Juan Cantos I-III
[The text will be made available as PDF file]
If you wish to read more of Byron’s poetry, see the Oxford World’s Classics edition
by J. McGann (2008)]
Camus, Albert, The Outsider (also translated as The Stranger)
[Please obtain your own copy, e.g. The Outsider, translated by Joseph Laredo and
introduced by Peter Dunwoodie (London: Everyman Classics, 1998); or Penguin,
2000, also translated by Laredo; or The Stranger, trans. by M. Ward (Vintage,
1989); or, if you can, you may want to read the French original, L’Etranger]
Coetzee, J. M., “As a Woman Grows Older”
[The text will be provided in PDF file, or can be read at:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jan/15/as-a-woman-grows-older/]
Djebar, Assia, Algerian White: A Narrative
[Excerpts will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read more of it, there is an English translation by Marjolijn de Jager &
David Kelley (Seven Stories Press, 2003); or you may read the original French, Le
Blanc d’Algérie
Dickens, Charles, Pictures from Italy
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF]
If you want to read or browse through the entire book, it is published by Penguin
(1998), and it can also be found on google books or from Project Gutenberg at:
http://archive.org/details/picturesfromital00650gut
Dović, Marijan, “The Canonization of Cultural Saints: An Introduction”
[The text is in press, and will be provided as PDF file]
Eliot, George, Middlemarch
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF]
If you want to read the entire novel, there are many editions, including Wordsworth
Classics (1993), Penguin (2003), Oxford World’s Classics (2008), kindle, etc.
Even-Zohar, Itamar, “The Role of Literature in the Making of the Nations of Europe: A
Socio-Semiotic Study”, Applied Semiotics 1,1 (1996), pp. 38-59
[The text will be available as a PDF file]
Fois, Marcello, Memory of the Abyss
[Excerpts will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read more, the English edition is published by MacLehose Press
(London, 2012); or, if you can, you may want to read the Italian original, Memoria
del Vuoto.
Haraway, Donna, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in
the Late Twentieth Century”, in Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs and Women:
The Reinvention of Nature (Free Association Books: London, 1991)
[The text will be available as PDF file]
Hroch, Miroslav, “From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation: The NationBuilding Process in Europe”, New Left Review I,198 (1993), pp. 3-20
[The text will be available as PDF file]
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Ibrahim, Sonallah, The Committee
[Excerpts will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read more, the English translation by Mary St Germain and Charlene
Constable is published by Syracuse University Press (2001)
Keats, John, read the letters written towards the end of his life, from 1820
[Please obtain your own copy: e.g. Selected Letters of John Keats, ed. Jon Mee
and Robert Gittings (Oxford World's Classics, 2009)]
Keats, John, “To Autumn”, “The Fall of Hyperion”, “The Day is gone”, “To Fanny”, “I cry
your mercy”, ”This living hand”, “Bright star!”, “Ode to Fanny;
[These poems will be provided in a PDF file]
If you want to read more of the poems, a good edition is Selected Poems, ed. by
John Barnard, (Penguin Classics, 1999). You can also read them here:
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/keats/keats6x9.pdf and here:
http://www.poemhunter.com/john-keats. Check also, for texts and additional
resources: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=1541
[Keats, John], please consult a biography of Keats, focusing on the last year of Keats's
life, i.e. 1820 up to his death on 23 February 1821.
[Please obtain your own copy: e.g. John Keats, by Robert Gittings (Penguin, 1967);
or Andrew Motion, John Keats (Faber, 1997), or Nicholas Roe, John Keats: A New
Life (Yale UP, 2012)]
Kharrat, Edwar, Girls of Alexandria
[Excerpts will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read more, the English translation by Frances Liardet is published by
Quartet Books (1993)
James, Henry, Italian Hours
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF]
If you want to read or browse through the entire book, there are various editions,
including by Penguin (1995),and on kindle; or you can find it online, from Project
Gutenberg, at: http://archive.org/details/italianhours06354gut
James, Henry, Daisy Miller
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF]
If you want to read the entire novella, there are many editions, including
Wordsworth Classics (2006), Penguin (2007, 2012), kindle; or you can read it
online, from Project Gutenberg, at: http://archive.org/details/daisymiller00208gut
Lawrence, D. H. Sea and Sardinia
[Excerpts will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read the entire text, you can find it published by Penguin (most
recent edition, 2010).
Leerssen, Joep, “Nationalism and the Cultivation of Culture”, in Nations and Nationalism
12.4, (2006), pp. 559-78
[The text will be available as PDF file]
Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince
[Excerpts will be made available as PDF file]
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If you want to read more of the book, there are several English editions, e.g. in the
Penguin Classics and the Oxford World’s Classics series; or, if you can, you may
want to read the Italian original, Il Principe.
Mahfouz, Naguib, Sugar Street
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF files]
If you want to read, The Cairo Trilogy is published by Everyman’s Classics (2001),
and the individual novels of the trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar
Street) are published by Black Swan (1994)
Marlowe, Christopher, The Jew of Malta
[Please obtain your own copy; there are various editions, e.g. in Methuen’s New
Mermaids series, ed. by J. R. Slemon (2009); both the Oxford World’s Classics
(Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, ed. by D. Bevington and E. Rasmussen, 2008),
and the New Mermaids (Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays, ed. by B. Gibbons,
2011) also include the other recommended text, Tamburlaine. There is also a
Penguin Complete Plays (1976), but it is currently out of print.]
Marlowe, Christopher, Tamburlaine
[Please obtain your own copy; there are various editions, e.g. in the Methuen New
Mermaids series, ed. by A. B. Dawson (2003); see above for collected editions.]
Pollock, Griselda, “The Politics of Theory: Generations and Geographies in Feminist
Theory and the Histories of Art Histories”, Chapter I from Griselda Pollock,
Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings (London and
New York: Routledge, 1996)
[The text will be available as PDF file]
Rich, Adrienne, “Notes toward a Politics of Location”, in Blood, Bread and Poetry:
Selected Prose, 1979-1985 (New York and London: Norton, 1994)
[The text will be available as PDF file]
Ruskin, John, The Stones of Venice
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF]
If you want to read or browse through the entire book, there are various editions
(e.g. Da Capo Books, 2003; or on kindle); and it can also be found on google books
Ruskin, John, Mornings in Florence
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF]
If you want to read or browse through the entire book, there are various editions
(e.g. Echo Library, 2007; or on kindle); or you can read it online at:
http://archive.org/details/morningsinflore04ruskgoog (click on: “read online”, from
the menu on the left)
Sadawi, Nadal, Woman at Point Zero
[Excerpts will be made available as PDF file]
If you want to read the entire novel, it is published by Zed Books (2nd ed.,2007)
Shakespeare, William, Othello
[Please obtain your own copy; the suggested edition is the one edited by Michael
Neill, Oxford World’s Classics, 2008]
Shakespeare, William, Antony and Cleopatra
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[Please obtain your own copy; the suggested editions are either the one edited by
Michael Neill, Oxford World’s Classics, 1995; or the one edited by John Wilders,
Arden Third Series, 1995]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, “Lines written among the Euganean Hills”, “Ode to the West
Wind”, “Julian and Maddalo”, “Ode to Naples”, “The Triumph of Life”, “Peter Bell” III
[The texts will be available as PDF file]
If you wish to read more, see Shelley’s The Major Works, ed. by Z. Leader (Oxford
World’s Classics, 2003, reissued 2009), or Shelley’s Selected Poetry, ed. by Isabel
Quigly (Penguin Classics, 1985); or the Norton Critical edition of Shelley’s Poetry
and Prose, ed. by D. H. Reiman and N. Fraistat (2nd revised edition, 2002)
Soueif, Ahdaf, The Map of Love [Excerpts will be provided in PDF files]
[Excerpts will be available in a PDF file]
If you want to read the entire novel, it is published by Bloomsbury (2007)
Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise Germaine Necker) Corinne: or Italy
[Excerpts will be provided in PDF].
If you want to read the entire novel, it is published by Oxford University Press in the
Oxford World’s Classics series (trans. Sylvia Raphael; Oxford: OUP, 1998). A 1847
translation by Isabel Hill (London: Bentley, 1847) can be found on google books; or
you can read it at: http://archive.org/details/corinnestoryofit00sta
3) Secondary reading
This will be made available later.
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