READING LISTS FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE MODULES IN SEMESTER TWO
2007-8
LEVEL I
EX123 Stages of Drama
Semester Two (Single Module)
Essential Reading
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, tr. Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics), £7.99.
Sophocles, The Theban Plays, tr. Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics), £6.99.
William Shakespeare, Richard III (any edition)
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, ed. Roma Gill (New Mermaids), £5.99.
Ibsen, A Doll's House (Cambridge University Press), £4.99
Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Methuen Student Edition), £8.99.
Recommended background reading:
Homer, The Iliad (Penguin Classics).
Mary Beard and John Henderson, Classics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford
University Press).
Peter Easterling, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge U.P.)
A. R Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway, eds, The Cambridge Companion to English
Renaissance Drama (Cambridge University Press)
James McFarlane, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen (Cambridge University
Press)
Peter Thompson and Glendyr Sacks, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Brecht
(Cambridge University Press)
EX124 Tall Tales &Short Stories
Semester Two (Single Module)
The books for this course are:
V.S. Pritchett (ed) The Oxford Book of Short Stories, (Oxford University Press).
Hermione Lee, ed., The Secret Self (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, ISBN 1857993519)
EX125
Voice and Verse: Experiencing Poetry
Semester Two (Single Module)
Ferguson, et al (eds) The Norton Anthology of Poetry ( Fifth Edition)
Thomas Carper and Derek Attridge, Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm
in Poetry (Routledge, 2003)
LEVEL II
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EX209 Contemporary Fiction: Writing Back to History
Semester Two (Single Module)
List in order of the texts studied.
Graham Swift, Waterland (1983), Picador
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (1981), Virago
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (1985), Black Swan
J.M. Coetzee, Foe (1986), Penguin
Michèle Roberts, Daughters of the House (1993), Virago
Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998), Virago
EX213 Renaissance, Revolution, Restoration: Literature 1580 – 1700
Reading List distributed by Module Tutor
EX214 Restoration to the Romantics: The Long Eighteenth Century
Reading List distributed by Module Tutor
EX215
Psychoanalysis, Sexuality and Writing
Semester Two (Single Module)
S Saguaro Psychoanalysis and Woman
S Freud The Schreber Case
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
EX218 Nineteenth-century American Writing
(Double module)
Please refer to your Course Handout
EX219 Crime Fiction
The following texts will comprise the first few weeks on the module:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles
Dorothy Sayers Strong Poison
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep
James Ellroy The Black Dahlia
For subsequent readings, please see module handout
EX298 Independent Study
Semester Two (Single Module)
Please check your e-mail – details of the module will be sent to your university e-mail
address.
Reading will be determined by the individual project.
LEVEL III
Most of the course information for Level III double modules is distributed by the
Course team. Please consult the Module Tutor if you have not received this
information.
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EX302
Modern Literary Theory
Reading List distributed by Module Tutor
EX311
Postcolonial Literature
Reading List distributed by Module Tutor
EX314
English Literature 1830 – 1910
The required texts for this semester are:
Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders (Oxford World’s Classics, or other good edition)
George Gissing, The Odd Women (Oxford World’s Classics, or other good edition)
Thomas Hardy, Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
Menie Muriel Dowie, Gallia (Everyman)
F.M. Mayor, The Third Miss Symons (Virago Modern Classics)
Robert Louis Stevenson, South Sea Tales (Oxford World’s Classics)
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (Dover or Penguin)
EX315 American Literature Since 1900
(Double module)
Please refer to your Course Handout
EX316 Fiction and Poetry Since 1900
For Option Group reading lists in Semester two, please consult your option handouts
EX324 Postmodernism:Subject to Sex
Virgina Woolf Orlando
Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry
J G Ballard Crash
Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve
Chuck Palanuik Fight Club
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
EX398 Independent Study
Please check your e-mail account – details of this module will be sent to your
e-mail address.
PLEASE NOTE : MOST OF THESE BOOKS WILL BE STOCKED BY
WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP, CHELTENHAM
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