Stellen Sie sich Ihr Studium wie eine Pyramide vor. Ohne ein vernünftiges Fundament keine
schwindelerregenden Höhen. Oder auf unsere Disziplin angewandt: Ohne eine
Minimalkenntnis der Geschichte der amerikanischen Literatur und ihrer wichtigsten Texte
keine Spezialisierung. Letzterer ist vor allem das Hauptstudium gewidmet, die Grundlagen
legen Sie im Grundstudium. In der Zwischenprüfung können Sie dann nachweisen, wie gut
Sie sich auf unserem Feld auskennen. Zur Unterstützung haben wir eine Literaturliste
vorbereitet, aus der Sie eine Auswahl treffen können. Nebenfachmagisterstudenten sind
verpflichtet, bis zur Zwischenprüfung 12 Texte aus dieser Liste zu lesen, Lehramtsstudenten
und Hauptfachmagisterstudenten müssen 14 Titel lesen. (Beachten Sie bitte, daß in der
englischen Literatur die gleiche Anforderung auf Sie zukommt.)
Hier nun unser Angebot:
Colonial Period
Novel
Charles Brockden Brown
(1771-1810)
Wieland (1798)
Nineteenth Century I (through the Civil War)
Poetry
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)
“To Helen” (1831)
“The City in the Sea” (1831)
“The Raven” (1845)
“The Bells” (1845)
(alles zusammen = 1 Text)
Prose
James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851)
The Pioneers (1823)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
“Nature” (1836)
“The American Scholar” (1837)
“Self-Reliance” (1841)
“The Poet” (1844)
(alles zusammen = 1 Text)
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
Walden (1854)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
(1811-1896)
Nineteenth Century II (through World War I)
Fiction
Kate Chopin
(1851-1904)
The Awakening (1899)
William Dean Howells
(1837-1920)
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Stephen Crane
(1871-1900)
Maggie. A Girl of the Streets (1893)
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Theodore Dreiser
(1871-1945)
Sister Carrie (1900)
Frank Norris
(1870-1902)
McTeague (1899)
Jack London
(1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild (1903)
Martin Eden (1909)
Henry James
(1843-1916)
“Daisy Miller: A Study” (1898)
Upton Sinclair
(1878-1968)
The Jungle (1906)
Twentieth Century I (through World War II)
Fiction
Sherwood Anderson
(1876-1941)
Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Sinclair Lewis
(1885-1951)
Main Street (1920)
e.e. cummings
(1894-1962)
The Enormous Room (1922)
John Dos Passos
(1896-1970)
Manhattan Transfer (1925)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Djuna Barnes
(1892-1982)
Nightwood (1936)
William Faulkner
(1897-1962)
Light in August (1932)
John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Nathaniel West
(1903-1940)
The Day of the Locust (1939)
Michael Gold
(1893-1967)
Jews Without Money (1930)
Zora Neale Hurston
(1891-1960)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Richard Wright
(1908-1960)
Native Son (1940)
Drama
Eugene O’Neill
(1888-1953)
Emperor Jones (1920)
The Hairy Ape (1922)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)
The Iceman Cometh (1946)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1956)
(ein Drama nach Auswahl)
Tennessee Williams
(1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
(ein Drama nach Auswahl)
Arthur Miller
(*1915)
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Poetry
T.S. Eliot
(1888-1965)
The Waste Land (1922)
Twentieth Century II
Fiction
Vladimir Nabokov
(1899-1977)
Lolita (1955)
Jerome D. Salinger
(*1919)
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Jack Kerouac
(1922-1969)
On the Road (1957)
Ken Kesey
(*1935)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Truman Capote
(1924-1984)
In Cold Blood (1966)
Thomas Pynchon
(*1937)
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
E.L. Doctorow
(*1931)
Ragtime (1975)
Paul Auster
(*1947)
The New York Trilogy (1988)
John Updike
(*1932)
Rabbit, Run (1960)
Margaret Atwood
(*1939)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Raymond Carver
(1938-1988)
Cathedral (1983)
Michael Herr
(*1940)
Dispatches (1977)
Carol Shields
(*1935)
The Stone Diaries (1993)
Richard Ford
(*1944)
Independence Day (1995)
Ralph Ellison
(1914-1994)
The Invisible Man (1952)
James Baldwin
(1924-1987)
Another Country (1962)
Toni Morrison
(*1931)
Beloved (1987)
Alice Walker
(*1944)
The Color Purple (1982)
Charles Johnson
(*1948)
Middle Passage (1990)
Rudolfo Anaya
(*1937)
Bless Me Ultima (1972)
N. Scott Momaday
(*1934)
House Made of Dawn (1968)
Leslie Marmon Silko
(*1948)
Ceremony (1977)
Louise Erdrich
(*1954)
Maxine Hong Kingston
(*1940)
Love Medicine (1984)
The Woman Warrior. Memoirs of a Childhood
Among Ghosts (1976)
Drama
Edward Albee
(*1928)
The Zoo Story (1959)
The American Dream (1960)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
(ein Drama nach Auswahl)
Lorraine Hansberry
(1930-1965)
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
David Henry Hwang
(*1957)
M. Butterfly (1988)
Haben Sie sich für ‚Ihre‘ Texte entschieden, wollen Sie sicher mehr über die Autoren, die
Entstehungsgeschichte der Texte und die Einbettung in die Gesamtgeschichte der
amerikanischen Literatur wissen. Und genau das wollen auch wir wissen – und zwar von
Ihnen. Deshalb fordern wir von Ihnen bis zur Zwischenprüfung den Nachweis der Kenntnis
einer der beiden folgenden Literaturgeschichten:
- Hubert Zapf (Hrsg.), Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte, Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997
- Emory Elliott (ed.), Columbia Literary History of the United States, New York: Columbia
University Press
Um Sie zu ermuntern, Ihre Entdeckungsreise in die amerikanische Literatur fortzusetzen,
geben wir Ihnen im Folgenden eine Empfehlungsliste weiterer Titel. Eingeschlossen sind die
Literaturempfehlungen zur Kulturgeschichte.
Colonial Period
Native American Oral Literatures
Samples from HA (Heath Anthology)
Travel Writings/ Ethnographic Writings
Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506)
from Journal of the First Voyage to America, 14921493
from Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500
“Letter” (1493)
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza
1556?)
(1542)
from Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490? –
Pedro de Casteñeda
(1510?-1570?)
from The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado
Thomas Harriot
1621)
“A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land (1560of Virginia” (1588)
Samuel de Champlain
(1570?-1635)
from The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain (16041618)
John Smith
(1580-1631)
from Description of New-England (1616)
from The Generall Historie of Virginia, NewEngland, and the Summer Isles (1624)
Roger Williams
(1603?-1683)
A Key into the Language of America (1643)
William Byrd II
1744)
from The History of the Dividing Line betwixt (1674Virginia and North Carolina (1728)
William Bartram
(1739-1823)
from The Travels of William Bartram (1791)
Sermons
John Cotton
(1584-1652)
John Winthrop
(1588-1649)
“God’s Promise to His Plantation” (1630)
“A Model of Christian Charity” (1630)
Samuel Danforth
(1626-1674)
“A Brief Recognition of New England’s Errand into
the Wilderness” (1671)
Jonathan Edwards
(1703-1758)
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741)
Samson Occom (Mohegan)
“A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom” (at the (17231792)
execution of Moss Paul; 1772)
Historiographical Writings
William Bradford
(1590-1657)
from Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1650)
Thomas Morton
(1579?-1647?)
from New English Canaan (1637)
Edward Johnson
(1599-1672)
from A History of New-England (1654)
Cotton Mather
(1663-1728)
from Magnalia Christi Americana (esp. “A General
Introduction”, “Nehemias Americanus”; 1702)
Robert Beverley
(1673?-1722?)
from The History and Present State of Virginia
Autobiographies, Captivity Narratives, Diaries, Journals
(into the 18th Century)
Thomas Shepard
(1605-1649)
Mary White Rowlandson
1711)
Samuel Sewall
(1652-1730)
Sarah Kemble Knight
1727)
from Autobiography
The sovereignty and goodness of GOD, Together (1637?With the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed;
Being A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
from The Diary of Samuel Sewall (1673-1729)
The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to (1666New York (1704-1705)
William Byrd II
(1674-1744)
from The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover
(1709-1712)
Jonathan Edwards
(1703-1758)
Personal Narrative (c. 1740/1765)
John Woolman
(1720-1772)
from The Journal of John Woolman (1774)
Poetry
Anne Bradstreet
(1612?-1672)
“Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666”
(1666)
“The Author to Her Book” (1678)
“To Her Father With Some Verses” (1678)
“Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (1678)
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” (1678)
Edward Taylor
from Preparatory Meditations (c. 1682-1698)
“Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” (c. 1680-1682)
“Huswifery” (c. 1682-1683)
“The Ebb & Flow” (1683)
Anti-Slavery Tract
Samuel Sewall
(1652-1730)
The Selling of Joseph, A Memorial (1700)
Revolution and Early Republic
Topical Writings
Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
Common Sense (1776)
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
from Letters from an American Farmer: Letter III (17351813)
(1782)
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
from Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)
“Declaration of Independence” (1776)
“Constitution” (1787/88)
James Madison
(1751-1836)
Judith Sargent Murray
(1751-1820)
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
from The Federalist: No. 10 (1787/88)
“On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)
“The Way to Wealth” (1757)
Autobiographical Writings
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
from The Autobiography (1771-1790)
Samson Occom (Mohegan)
(1723-1792)
Olaudah Equiano
1797)
A Short Narrative of My Life (1768)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of O.E., or (1745Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself
(1789)
Poetry
Philip Freneau
1832)
“On the Emigration to America and Peopling the (1752Western Country” (1785)
“The Wild Honey Suckle” (1786)
“The Indian Burying Ground” (1788)
from Greenfield Hill (esp. “The Flourishing
Village”, The Destruction of the Pequods”; 1794)
Timothy Dwight
(1752-1817)
Joel Barlow
1812)
Phillis Wheatley
(1753-1784)
“The Hasty Pudding, A Poem, in Three Cantos” (1754(1796)
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773)
“To the University of Cambridge, in New England”
(1773)
“To His Excellency General Washington” (1776)
Drama
Royall Tyler
(1757-1826)
The Contrast, A Comedy in Five Acts (esp.
Prologue; 1790)
Novel
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
(1748-1816)
Modern Chivalry (1792-1815)
Charles Brockden Brown
(1771-1810)
Arthur Mervyn (1799/1800)
Edgar Huntly (1799) (esp. Prefaces)
Hannah Webster Foster
(1758-1840)
from The Coquette (1797)
Susanna Haswell Rowson
(1762-1824)
from Charlotte Temple (1794)
Nineteenth Century I (through the Civil War)
Poetry
William Cullen Bryant
“To a Waterfowl” (1815)
(1794-1878)
“Thanatopsis” (1817)
“Sonnet – To an American Painter Departing for
Europe” (1832)
“The Prairies” (1832)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
“Concord Hymn” (1837)
“Days” (1857)
“Brahma” (1857)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)
“A Psalm of Life” (1838)
“The Slave’s Dream” (1842)
“The Jewish Cemetery at Newport” (1852)
“The Cross of Snow” (1879)
John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807-1892)
“Massachusetts to Virginia” (1843)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894)
“Old Ironsides” (1836)
Prose
Washington Irving
(1783-1859)
from The Sketch Book (esp. “Rip van Winkle”, “The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow”; 1819-1820)
from A History of New York (1809)
James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851)
The Prairie (1827)
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839)
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841)
“The Imp of the Perverse” (1842)
“The Masque of the Red Death” (1842)
“The Black Cat” (1843)
“The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843)
“The Purloined Letter” (1844)
“The Philosophy of Composition” (1846)
“Hop-Frog” (1849)
“The Poetic Principle” (1850)
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
“Resistance to Civil Government” (= “Civil
Disobedience”, 1849)
“A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1855/1860)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864)
“Sights from a Steeple” (1830)
“My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (1832)
“Young Goodman Brown” (1835)
“The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836)
“The Maypole of Merrymount” (1836)
“Ethan Brand” (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (inc. “Preface”, 1851)
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853)
“Benito Cereno” (1855)
Billy Budd, Sailor (1886-91/ 1924)
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
Political Writings
William Apess (Pequot)
?)
Elias Boudinot
(1802?-1839)
“An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man” (1798(1833)
(Cherokee)
“An Address to the Whites” (1826)
Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859)
from Democracy in America (1835)
David Walker
(1785-1830)
from Appeal (1829)
Sojourner Truth
(ca. 1797-1883)
“Speech at New York City Convention” (1881)
Nat Turner
(1800-1831)
Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)
George Fitzhugh
(1804-1881)
from Southern Thought (1857)
Sarah Margaret Fuller
(1810-1850)
from Women in the Nineteenth Century (1844)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(1815-1902)
“Declaration of Sentiments” (1848)
Rebecca Harding Davis
(1831-1910)
Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
“Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg
National Cemetery"”(1863)
Autobiographical Writings
William Lloyd Garrison
(1805-1879)
The Story of His Life (1885)
Harriet E. Wilson
(1808-1870?)
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
(1859)
Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave, Written by Himself (1845)
Nineteenth Century II (through World War I)
Native American Oratory and Chants
Samples from NA (Norton Anthology of AfricanAmerican Literature)
African American Folktales
Samples from HA
Fiction
Bret Harte
(1836-1902)
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (1869)
George Washington Cable
(1844-1925)
“Belles Demoiselles Plantation” (1874)
Joel Chandler Harris
(1848-1908)
Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (1880)
Sarah Orne Jewett
(1849-1909)
“A White Heron” (1886)
Kate Chopin
(1851-1904)
“Desiree’s Baby” (1892)
“The Story of an Hour” (1894)
“The Storm” (1898)
Mary E. Freeman
(1852-1930)
“A New England Nun” (1891)
Hamlin Garland
(1860-1940)
from Main-Travelled Roads (esp. “Under the Lion’s
Paw”; 1891)
William Dean Howells
(1837-1920)
from Criticism and Fiction (1891)
“An Opportunity for American Fiction”
“Editha” (1905)
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
(1867)
Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)
“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg” (1900)
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914?)
“Chickamauga” (1889)
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1892)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935)
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892)
Stephen Crane
(1871-1900)
“The Open Boat” (1897, 1898)
“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” (1898)
“The Monster” (1898)
“The Blue Hotel” (1899)
Theodore Dreiser
(1871-1945)
An American Tragedy (1925)
Frank Norris
(1870-1902)
Vandover and the Brute (1894/1895)
The Octopus (1901)
Henry James
(1843-1916)
The American (1877)
The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
“The Art of Fiction” (1884, 1888)
“The Turn of the Screw” (1898)
The Ambassadors (1903)
Poetry
Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
“Song of Myself” (1855, 1881)
“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (1859)
“I Hear America Singing” (1860)
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (1865-66)
“A Passage to India” (1871-72)
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
“These are the days when Birds come back”
(1859/1890)
“Safe in their Alabaster Chambers” (1859/1862,
1861/1890)
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” (1861/1896)
“Because I could not stop for Death” (1863/1923)
“My life had stood a loaded gun” (1863/1923)
“A Route of Evanescence” (1879/1891)
Stephen Crane
(1871-1900)
“Black Riders Came from the Sea” (1895)
“Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind” (1899)
“A Man Said to the Universe” (1899)
“There was a Man With Tongue of Wood” (1899)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1906)
“We Wear the Mask” (1896)
“Sympathy” (1899)
Autobiographical Writings
Henry Adams
(1838-1918)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915)
Up from Slavery (esp. chapter XIV, 1901)
Jane Addams
from Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910)
(1860-1935)
James Weldon Johnson
(1871-1938)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
Gertrude Bonnin/Zitkala-Sa, Sioux from Impressions of an Indian Childhood (1900)
(1876-1938)
from The Schooldays of an Indian Girl (1900)
Mary Antin
(1881-1949)
The Promised Land (1912)
Sociological and Historical Writings
Thorstein Veblen
(1857-1929)
from Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
Frederick Jackson Turner
(1861-1932)
“The Significance of the Frontier in American
History” (1893)
Twentieth Century I (through World War II)
Fiction
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)
Three Lives (1909)
The Making of Americans (esp. Introduction,
1906-08, 1925)
William Carlos Williams
(1883-1963)
from In The American Grain (1925)
Willa Cather
(1873-1947)
The Professor’s House (1925)
“Neighbour Rosicky” (1928, 1932)
Sherwood Anderson
(1876-1941)
“I Want to Know Why” (1918, 1921)
“The Egg” (1921)
Sinclair Lewis
(1885-1951)
Babbitt (1922)
Elmer Gantry (1927)
John Dos Passos
(1896-1970)
Part of U.S.A. trilogy, e.g. Nineteen-Nineteen
(1932)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940)
“May Day” (1920)
“Winter Dreams” (1922)
Tender is the Night (1934)
“Babylon Revisited” (1935)
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
“Cat in the Rain” (1923-24, 1925)
“Hills Like White Elephants” (1927)
“In Another Country” (1928)
“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” (1932, 1933)
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936, 1938)
“Old Man at the Bridge” (1938)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Katherine Anne Porter
(1890-1980)
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” (1930)
“Old Mortality” (1939)
William Faulkner
(1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury (1926)
“That Evening Sun” (1928)
As I Lay Dying (1930)
“A Rose for Emily” (1930, 1931)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
“Barn Burning” (1938)
“The Bear” (1942)
Margaret Mitchell
(1900-1949)
Gone With the Wind (1936)
Thomas Wolfe
(1900-1938)
Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
Of Time and the River (1935)
John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
Nathaniel West
(1903-1940)
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
James Agee
(1909-1955)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
Abraham Cahan
(1860-1951)
The Rise of David Levinsky (1917)
Anzia Yezierska
(1885-1970)
from Hungry Hearts (1920)
esp. “The Fat of the Land”
Henry Roth
(1906-1995)
Call It Sleep (1934)
Nella Larsen
(1891-1964)
Passing (1929)
Zora Neale Hurston
(1891-1960)
“Sweat” (1926)
Jean Toomer
(1894-1967)
Cane (1923)
Richard Wright
(1908-1960)
The Outsider (1953)
Drama
Susan Glaspell
(1882-1948)
Trifles (1916)
The Outside (1917)
Eugene O’Neill
(1888-1953)
Seven Plays of the Sea (1919)
Elmer Rice
(1892-1967)
The Adding Machine (1923)
Thornton Wilder
(1897-1975)
The Long Christmas Dinner (1931)
Our Town (1938)
Lillian Hellman
(1905-1984)
The Children’s Hour (1934)
The Little Foxes (1939)
The Autumn Garden (1951)
Clifford Odets
(1906-1963)
Waiting for Lefty (1935)
Awake and Sing! (1935)
Arthur Miller
(*1915)
All My Sons (1947)
The Crucible (1953)
Angelina Weld Grimké
(1880-1958)
Rachel (1916, 1920)
Mary P. Burrill
(1884-1946)
They That Sit in Darknes (1919)
Marita O. Bonner
(1899-1971)
The Purple Flower (1928)
May Miller
(*1899-?)
Nails and Thorns (1933)
Langston Hughes
(1902-1967)
Don’t You Want to be Free? (1937)
Mulatto (1935)
Poetry
Samples from HA or NA
Edgar Lee Masters
(1868-1950)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
(1869-1935)
Carl Sandburg
(1878-1967)
“Chicago” (1914)
Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)
Tender Buttons (1914)
William Carlos Williams
(1883-1963)
“Queen Anne’s Lace” (1921)
“The Red Wheelbarrow” (1923)
“A Sort of a Song” (1944)
Ezra Pound
(1885-1971)
“A Pact” (1913)
“In A Station of the Metro” (1913)
Amy Lowell
(1874-1925)
H.D./ Hilda Doolittle
(1886-1961)
“Oread” (1914)
“Helen” (1924)
Marianne Moore
(1887-1972)
Robinson Jeffers
(1887-1962)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892-1950)
Wallace Stevens
(1879-1955)
Archibald MacLeish
(1892-1982)
e.e. cummings
(1894-1962)
Hart Crane
(1899-1932)
Lorraine Niedecker
(1903-1970)
Angelina Weld Grimké
(1880-1958)
Claude McKay
(1890-1948)
Langston Hughes
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921)
(1902-1967)
“Mulatto” (1927)
County Cullen
(1903-1946)
Autobiographical Writings
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
Richard Wright
(1908-1960)
Black Boy (1945)
Topical Writings
W.E.B. Du Bois
(1868-1963)
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Herbert Croly
(1869-1930)
The Promise of American Life (1909)
Alain Locke
(1886-1954)
The New Negro (1925)
Black Elk
(1863-1950)
& John G. Neihardt
(1881-1973)
from Black Elk Speaks (1932)
Twentieth Century II
Fiction
Vladimir Nabokov
(1899-1977)
Pale Fire (1962)
Ada (1969)
Eudora Welty
(*1909)
“Petrified Man” (1941)
“The Wide Net” (1943)
Bernard Malamud
(1914-1986)
The Assistant (1957)
The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1984)
Saul Bellow
(*1915)
The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
“Seize the Day” (1956)
Henderson the Rain King (1959)
Carson McCullers
(1917-1967)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
“The Ballad of the Sad Café” (1951)
Flannery O’Connor
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (1953)
(1925-1964)
“Everything that Rises Must Converge” (1965)
Jerome D. Salinger
(*1919)
“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” (1953)
Sylvia Plath
(1932-1963)
The Bell Jar (1963)
Norman Mailer
(*1923)
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
The Armies of the Night (1968)
The Executioner’s Song (1979)
Truman Capote
(1924-1984)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958)
John Hawkes
(*1925)
The Cannibal (1949)
Second Skin (1964)
Travesty (1976)
John Barth
(*1930)
The End of the Road (1958)
The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
Lost in the Funhouse (1968)
Donald Barthelme
(1931-1989)
Snow White (1967)
“At the End of the Mechanical Age” (1977)
Ronald Sukenick
(*1932)
The Death of the Novel and Other Stories (1969)
Robert Coover
(*1932)
The Public Burning (1977)
Thomas Pynchon
(*1937)
“Entropy” (1960)
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
E.L. Doctorow
(*1931)
The Book of Daniel (1971)
Lives of the Poets (1984)
Walker Percy
(1916-1990)
The Thanatos Syndrome (1987)
Tom Wolfe
(*1931)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
John Cheever
(1912-1982)
“The Enormous Radio” (1953)
“The Country Husband” (1958)
“The Swimmer” (1964)
Bullet Park (1969)
Falconer (1977)
John Updike
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962)
(*1932)
Couples (1968)
Rabbit Redux (1971)
Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
Roger’s Version (1986)
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Margaret Atwood
(*1939)
Surfacing (1972)
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Philip Roth
(*1933)
Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
The Ghost Writer (1979)
The Counterlife (1987)
Cynthia Ozick
(*1941)
The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
Joyce Carol Oates
(*1938)
Expensive People (1968)
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
(1970)
Marriages and Infidelities (1972)
Angel of Light (1981)
I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)
Bobby Ann Mason
(*1940)
from Shiloh and Other Stories (1982)
Larry Heinemann
(*1944)
Paco’s Story (1986)
Gustav Hasford
(1947-1993)
Short Timers (1978)
Cormac McCarthy
(*1933)
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
Jane Smiley
(*1949)
A Thousand Acres (1991)
James Baldwin
(1924-1987)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
“Sonny’s Blues” (1948)
Paule Marshall
(*1929)
Praisesong for the Widow (1983)
Toni Morrison
(*1931)
Sula (1973)
Song of Solomon (1977)
Jazz (1992)
Ishmael Reed
(*1938)
Mumbo Jumbo (1972)
Flight to Canada (1976)
Alice Walker
(*1944)
Meridian (1976)
“Nineteen Fifty-five” (1981)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
Gloria Naylor
(*1950)
The Women of Brewster Place (1982)
Bailey’s Café (1992)
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
(*1937)
“Sometimes It Just happens That Way, That’s All”
(1983)
Tomás Rivera
(1935-1984)
from And The Earth Did Not Devour Him (1971)
Sandra Cisneros
(*1954)
The House on Mango Street (1989)
from Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories
(1991)
N. Scott Momaday
(*1934)
The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna)
(*1948)
Story Teller (1981)
Almanac of the Dead (1991)
Louise Erdrich (Chippewa)
(*1954)
Tracks (1988)
The Bingo Palace (1994)
Maxine Hong Kingston
(*1940)
Tripmaster Monkey (1989)
Amy Tan
(*1952)
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991)
The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
Bharati Mukherjee
(*1940)
“A Wife’s Story” (1988)
Drama
Jean-Claude Van Itallie
(*1936)
America Hurrah (1966, 1967)
Arthur Kopit
(*1937)
Indians (1969)
David Rabe
(*1940)
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1973)
Streamers (1976)
Sam Shepard
(*1943)
The Tooth of Crime (1972)
True West (1979)
Fool for Love (1983)
August Wilson
(*1945)
Fences (1985)
David Mamet
(*1947)
Reunion (1976)
American Buffalo (1977)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)
Oleanna (1992)
Wendy Wasserstein
(*1950)
Heidi Chronicles (1988)
Beth Henley
(*1952)
Crimes of the Heart (1981)
James Baldwin
(1924-1987)
Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
Amiri Baraka/ LeRoi Jones
(*1934)
Dutchman (1964)
The Slave (1964)
Slave Ship (1967)
Ntozake Shange
(*1948)
For colored girls who have considered suicide
when the rainbow is enuf (1975)
Luis Valdez
(*1940)
Actos (1971)
Poetry
Samples from NA, HA, Postmodern American
Poetry; suggested authors
Lorraine Niedecker (1903-1970)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
John Berryman (1914-1972)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
Robert Creeley (*1926)
Robert Duncan (1919-1988)
Denise Levertov (*1923)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (*1919)
Allen Ginsberg (*1926)
Gary Snyder (*1930)
James Merrill (*1926)
William S. Merwin (*1927)
John Ashbery (*1927)
Frank O’Hara (1926-1966)
Adrienne Rich (*1929)
Rosmarie Waldrop (*1935)
Susan Howe (*1937)
Lyn Hejinian (*1941)
Ron Siliman (*1946)
Bob Perelman (*1947)
Gwendolyn Brooks (*1917)
Sonia Sanchez (*1934)
Amiri Baraka/ LeRoi Jones (*1934)
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Michael Harper (*1938)
Rita Dove (*1952)
Janice Mirikitani (*1942)
Cathy Song (*1955)
Li-Young Lee (*1957)
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (*1941)
Roberta Hill Whiteman (Oneida) (*1947)
Wendy Rose (Hopi) (*1948)
Joy Harjo (Creek) (*1951)
Judith Ortiz Cofer (*1952)
Gary Soto (*1952)
Lorna Dee Cervantes (*1954)
Topical Writings
Norman Mailer
(*1923)
“The White Negro” (1957)
Paule Marshall
(*1929)
“To Da-Duh: In Memoriam” (1967)
Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
“I Have a Dream” (1963)
Alice Walker
(*1944)
from In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden (1963)
Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1971)
Autobiography
Malcolm X
(1925-1965)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley,
1965)
Richard Rodriguez
(*1944)
Hunger of Memory (1981)
Recommended Anthologies
The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym et al. 4th ed. New York:
Norton, 1994.
The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. 2nd ed. Lexington, Mass.:
Heath, 1994.
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Ed. Paul Hoover. New York: Norton,
1994.
A More Perfect Union: Documents in U.S. History. Ed. Paul Boller. 4th ed. Lexington, Mass.:
Heath, 1996.
An Early American Reader. Ed. J.A. Leo Lemay. Washington, D.C.: ASSET, 1980.
A Nineteenth-Century American Reader. Ed. M. Thomas Inge. Washington, D.C.: ASSET,
1989.
A Twentieth-Century American Reader. Vol. 1: 1900-1945. Ed. Jack Lane & Maurice
O’Sullivan. Washington, D.C.: ASSET, 1994.
A Twentieth-Century American Reader. Vol. 2: 1945-Present. Ed. Patrick Maney.
Washington, D.C.: ASSET, 1995.
The African-American Experience: A Reader. Ed. William Scott & William Shade.
Washington, D.C.: ASSET, 1995.
Documents of American History. Ed. Henry S. Commager. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall,
1968.
American Culture: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Anders Breidlid et al. London: Routledge, 1995.
Major Problems in American History Since 1945. Ed. Robert Griffith. Lexington, Mass.:
Heath, 1992.
Recommended History Textbook
The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. Ed. Paul Boyer et al. 3rd ed.
Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1996.
Recommended Literary Histories
Columbia Literary History. Ed. Emory Elliott et al. New York: Columbia UP, 1988.
The Cambridge History of American Literature. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1994 ff.
Lektüreliste Englische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
Altenglische Literatur
Heroisches Epos:
Anon. (10./11. Jhd.)
* Beowulf
Elegien:
Anon. (10./11. Jhd.)
"The Wanderer", "The Seafarer",
"The Wife's Lament",
"The Husband's Message"
Mittelenglische Literatur
Versdichtung:
William Langland (ca. 1330-1387)
* Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)
Anon.
Piers Plowman
The Canterbury Tales *"The General Prologue" und einzelne
Tales (z.B. "The Knight's Tale", "The Miller's Tale",
* "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale")
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1416-1471) Le Morte Darthur
William Caxton (1422-1491)
Preface to
Morte Darthur
Balladen:
Anon.
"Edward"
"Thomas the Rhymer"
"Sir Patrick Spence"
Drama:
Anon.
"The Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play"
* Everyman
16. und frühes 17. Jahrhundert
Versdichtung:
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
"They Flee From Me"
Sir Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
"Epithalamion"
The Faerie Queene (Auszüge aus Buch I)
Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Sonette Nr. 1, 16 und 37 aus Astrophil and Stella
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
"To The Reader of These Sonnets" (aus Idea)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Hero and Leander
* William Shakespeare (1564-1616) * Sonette Nr. 18, 30, 73, 130
* John Donne (1572-1631)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
"The Good-Morrow"
* "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
"The Canonization"
* Holy Sonnets Nr. 10. 14
"On My First Son"
"Song: To Celia"
"To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William
Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us"
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
"Corinna's Going A-Maying"
"To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
George Herbert (1593-1633)
"Easter Wings"
"The Collar"
"The Pulley"
* John Milton (1608-1674)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Paradise Lost (Book I, IX)
* "L'Allegro"
"Il Penseroso"
* "On His Blindness"
"To His Coy Mistress"
"The Definition of Love"
Prosa:
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
* Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The Defence of Poesy
* Essays (Auszüge in Norton Anthology)
New Atlantis
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
The Unfortunate Traveller
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Utopia (Books I and II)
Elisabethanisch-jakobäisches Drama:
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
The Spanish Tragedy
* Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) * The Jew of Malta
* William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632)
* Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
*Hamlet
Henry IV
* Twelfth Night
Measure for Measure
Othello
* King Lear
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale
Julius Caesar
Merchant of Venice
The Roaring Girl
* Volpone
Every Man in His Humour
John Webster (1580?-1625?)
The Duchess of Malfi
Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
The Roman Actor
Sir Francis Beaumont (1584-1616),
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Philaster or Love A-Bleeding
John Ford (1586- nach 1639)
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
spätes 17. Jahrhundert (Restaurationszeit)
Versdichtung:
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Hudibras
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Absalom and Achitophel
MacFlecknoe
John Wilmot,
Second Earl of Rochester
(1647-1680)
Prosa:
A Satyr against Reason and Mankind
* Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
* Leviathan (Auszüge in Norton Anthology)
* John Bunyan (1628-1688)
* Pilgrim's Progress
John Dryden (1631-1700)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
John Locke (1632-1704)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Two Treatises on Government
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
The Diary (Auszüge)
Aphra Behn (1640?-1689)
Oronooko or The Royal Slave
Drama:
* John Dryden (1631-1700)
* All for Love
The Conquest of Granada
William Wycherly (1641-1715)
The Country Wife
Thomas Otway (1652-1685)
Venice Preserv'd
* William Congreve (1670-1729)
George Farquhar (1678-1707)
* The Way of the World
The Recruiting Officer
18. Jahrhundert
Versdichtung:
John Gay (1685-1732)
* Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
"Pastorals"
* An Essay on Man
An Essay on Criticism
* Windsor Forest
* The Rape of the Lock
The Dunciad
James Thomson (1700-1748)
The Seasons
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
* Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
William Collins (1721-1759)
* "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Ode to Evening
Prosa und Roman:
* Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660-1731)
* Robinson Crusoe
Journal of the Plague Year
Moll Flanders
* Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
* Gulliver's Travels
A Tale of a Tub
A Modest Proposal
Joseph Addison (1672-1719),
Richard Steele (1672-1729)
Auszüge aus "Spectator" und "Tatler"
(Norton Anthology)
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
* Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Pamela
* Tom Jones
Joseph Andrews
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Preface to Shakespeare
Rasselas
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
Tristram Shandy
* Horace Walpole,
4th Earl of Oxford (1717-1797)
* The Castle of Otranto
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
Humphrey Clinker
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Reflections on the Revolution in France
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our
Ideas
of the Sublime and the Beautiful
Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730-1774)
The Vicar of Wakefield
James Boswell (1740-1795)
Life of Johnson
Fanny (Frances, Mme d'Arblay)
Burney (1752-1840)
Evelina
William Godwin (1756-1836)
Caleb Williams
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Drama:
* John Gay (1685-1732)
* The Beggar's Opera
* George Lillo (1693-1739)
* The London Merchant
Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730-1774)
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(1751-1816)
Richard Steele (1672-1729)
She Stoops to Conquer
* The School for Scandal
The Rivals
The Conscious Lovers
19. Jahrhundert
Dichtung der Romantik:
* William Blake (1757-1827)
* Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Auszüge in
Norton Anthology)
* William Wordsworth (1770-1850) * "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3,
1802)"
"London, 1802"
* "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
* "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"
"The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind"
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)
* George Gordon, Lord Byron
(1788-1824)
* "Kubla Khan"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
* "Dejection: An Ode"
* Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III)
Don Juan
* Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) * "Ode to the West Wind"
* "The Cloud"
* "To a Sky-Lark"
* John Keats (1795-1821)
* "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
* "Ode to a Nightingale"
"When I have fears that I may cease to be"
* "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad"
Dichtung der viktorianischen Zeit:
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1806-1861)
* "Sonnets from the Portuguese" No. 21, 22, 32, 43
* Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) * "The Lady of Shalott"
"In Memoriam A.H.H."
"The Kraken"
* "The Lotus-Eaters"
* "Ulysses"
* "Tithonus"
"Idylls of the Kings"
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
* Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
"My Last Duchess"
The Ring and the Book
* "Dover Beach"
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) * "The Blessed Damozel"
* Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844-1889)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
* "The Windhover"
* "Pied Beauty"
The Ballad of Reading Goal
Essays:
* William Wordsworth (1770-1850) * Preface to Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)
Biographia Literaria (Chapter XIII)
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
A Letter to Wordsworth
The Two Races of Men
Thomas Hazlitt (1778-1830)
On Gusto
Mr. Wordsworth (Auszüge in Norton Anthology)
P.B. Shelley (1792-1822)
A Defence of Poetry
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Past and Present
Sartor Resartus
Chartism (Auszüge in Norton Anthology)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
(1800-1859)
Lord Bacon
John Stuart Mill (1806-1872)
On Liberty
The Subjecton of Women
"The Savageness of Gothic Architecture" (aus: Stones
of Venice, Auszüge in Norton Anthology)
Modern Painters (Auszüge in Norton Anthology)
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Culture and Anarchy
"The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
William Morris (1834-1896)
News from Nowhere
Walter Pater (1839-1894)
The Renaissance (Auszüge in Norton Anthology)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
De Profundis
The Decay of Lying
The Critic As Artist
Roman:
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1817)
* Jane Austen (1775-1817)
The Heart of Midlothian
Waverly
* Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Mansfield Park
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797-1851)
Frankenstein
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
Vanity Fair
* Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
* Bleak House
Hard Times
Jane Eyre
* Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
* Wuthering Heights
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Middlemarch
Mill on the Floss
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
* Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
* Henry James (1843-1916)
Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-1894)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Erewhon
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Jude the Obscure
* Portrait of a Lady
* The Ambassadors
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Ebb-Tide
The Master of Ballantrae
The Picture of Dorian Gray
George Robert Gissing (1857-1903) New Grub Street
* Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
* Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Kim
Drama:
* George Gordon,
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
* Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)
* Manfred
Cain
The Cenci
* The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Windermere's Fan
Salome
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
20. Jahrhundert
Dichtung:
* William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
"Leda and the Swan"
* "Sailing to Byzantium"
* "Easter 1916"
* Among School Children
* Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) * "The Waste Land"
"The Hollow Men"
"The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock"
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
* Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Ted Hughes (*1930)
* Seamus Heaney (*1939)
"Musee des Beaux Arts"
"In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
"Church Going"
* "High Windows"
"Hawk Roosting"
"Wind"
"A Dream of Horses"
"Relic"
* "Digging"
Essays:
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
"Notes towards the Definition of Culture"
Roman:
Edward Morgan Forster
(1879-1970)
A Passage to India
* Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
* To the Lighthouse
Orlando
* A Room of One's Own
* James Joyce (1882-1941)
* Ulysses (Calypso-, Nausikaa-, Penelope-Episode)
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Women in Love
Sons and Lovers
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Brave New World
George Orwell (1903-1950)
1984
Inside the Whale
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Molloy
William Golding (*1911)
Lord of the Flies
Iris Murdoch (*1919)
Under the Net
Doris Lessing (*1919)
The Golden Notebook
The Fifth Child
* John Robert Fowles (*1926)
* The French Lieutenant's Woman
A.S. Byatt (*1936)
Possession
Angela Carter (*1940)
Julian Barnes (*1946)
Nights at the Circus
Passion of New Eve
Flaubert's Parrot
Ian McEwan (*1948)
The Cement Garden
Kazuo Ishiguro (*1954)
The Remains of the Day
Drama:
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Man and Superman
John Millington Synge (1871-1909) The Playboy of the Western World
* Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Peter Shaffer (*1926)
* Waiting for Godot
Equus
Amadeus
* John Osborne (*1929)
* Look Back in Anger
Harold Pinter (*1930)
The Caretaker
The Dumb Waiter
Arnold Wesker (*1932)
The Wesker Trilogy
Edward Bond (*1934)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Lear
* Tom Stoppard (*1937)
* Travesties
Arcadia
Caryl Churchill (*1938)
Top Girls
Howard Brenton (*1942)
Pravda
A Fleet Street Comedy
Sarah Daniels (*1957)
Masterpieces
Englische Literatur außerhalb Grossbritanniens
Afrika:
Amos Tutuola (*1920)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Nadine Grodimer (*1923)
Burger's Daughter
Chinua Achebe (*1930)
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; No Longer at
Ease; Arrow of God
Athol Gugard (*1932)
Blood Knot and Other Plays
* Wole Soyinka (*1934)
* Death and the King's Horseman
Lewis Nkosi (*1936)
Mating Birds
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
[James Ngugi] (*1938)
Petals of Blood
John Maxwell Coetzee (*1940)
Foe
Nuruddin Farah (*1945)
From a Crooked Rib
William Boyd (*1952)
An Ice-Cream War
* Ben Okri (*1959)
* Songs of Enchantment
Australien:
Joseph Furphy (1843-1912)
The Annotated, Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts
from the Diary of Tom Collins
Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
While the Billy Boils
Patrick White (1912-1990)
Voss
David Malouf (*1934)
Antipodes
Poems 1959-1989
Frank Moorhouse (*1938)
The Americans, Baby: a Discontinious Narrative of
Stories and Fragments
David Williamson (*1942)
The Perfectionist
* Peter Carey (*1943)
Indien-Pakistan:
* Illywhacker
* Oscar and Lucinda
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Collected Poems and Plays
Mulk Raj Anand (*1905)
Untouchable
Rasipuram Krishnaswami
Narayan (*1906)
The Man-Eater of Malgudi
Raja Rao (*1908)
The Serpent on the Rope
Govindas Vishnoodas Desani
(*1909)
All About H. Hatterr
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (*1927)
Out of India: Selected Stories
Anita Desai (*1937)
Clear Light of Day
* Salman Rushdie (*1947)
* Midnight's Children
* The Satanic Verses
Kanada:
Susanna Moodie (1805-1885)
Roughing it in the Bush, or, Life in Canada
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
Alfred Earle Birney (*1904)
Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems, 1920-1976
Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990)
Two Solitudes
James Sinclair Ross (*1908)
As for Me and My House
Robertson Davies (*1903)
The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore;
World of Wonders
* Margaret Eleanor Atwood (*1939) * Surfacing
* Bluebeard's Egg and other Stories
* Selected Poems
Michael Ondaatje (*1943)
The English Patient
Karibik:
* Jane Rhys (1894-1979)
Wilson Harris (*1921)
* Wide Sargasso Sea
The Guyana Quartet:
Palace of the Peacock
The Far Journey of Oudin
The Whole Armour
The Secret Ladder
Samuel Selvon (1923-1994)
The Lonely Londoners
George Lamming (*1927)
In the Castle of My Skin
Edward Kamau Brathwaite (*1930)
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy:
Rights of Passage
Masks
Islands
Derek Walcott (*1930)
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
Omeros
Vidiadhar Surajprasad
Naipaul (*1932)
The House for Mr. Biswas
The Mimic Men
Mervyn Morris (*1937)
Shadowboxing
Olive Senior (*1941)
Summer Lightning and Other Stories
Jamaica Kincaid (*1949)
Lucy
Caryl Phillips (*1958)
Crossing the River
Neuseeland:
* Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
* The Complete Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Allen Curnow (*1911)
Selected Poems, 1940-1989
Janet Frame (*1924)
The Edge of the Alphabet
Albert Wendt (*1939)
Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Witi Tame Ihimaera (*1944)
The Matriarch
Keri Hulme (*1947)
The Bone People
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