INTERNATIONAL MODERNISMS, 1840 – PRESENT
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Vacation Reading List
MA Module, 2015-2016
Sara Crangle, Arts B 239
skcrangle@gmail.com
Please be sure to purchase the specific copies identified, as we are working with translated
editions in most instances, and will not be able to have class discussion with varying texts.
Please note that this list is not inclusive, but will give you a good start on required texts:
additional authors studied will likely include Hugo Ball, Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven,
Mayakovsky, Lorca, Césaire, and Borges.
Nikolay Gogol, Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories (Trans. Maguire,
Penguin Classics)
Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (Trans. McGowan, Oxford World’s Classics)
Stéphane Mallarmé, Collected poems and Other Verse (Trans. Blackmore, Oxford’s World Classics)
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet (Trans. Polizzotti; Dalkey Archive Press)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (Trans. Hollingdale; Penguin)
F.T. Marinetti, Mafarka the Futurist: An African Novel (Trans. Diethe and Cox; Middlesex UP)
Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. (Ed. Scott W. Klein. Oxford World Classics)
Mina Loy, Insel. (Ed. Elizabeth Arnold and Sarah Hayden, Melville House Books)
Kathy Acker, Don Quixote, which was a Dream (any edition you can find is fine in this instance)