Comprehensive Exam Reading List Fall 2014 & Spring 2015 William Shakespeare, Sonnets (selections) (Proposer: Profs. Shea and Smyth) Read the complete sonnet sequence (154 poems), but pay special attention to the following: 1, 4, 5, 18, 20, 29, 30, 33, 40, 41, 42, 94, 116, 126, 127, 129, 130, 137, 138, 151, 152, 153, 154 (COLLECTION OF LYRICAL POEMS) Required Secondary Text* Callaghan, Dympna. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 35-­‐73 and 102-­‐
51. Print. [Chs. 3 and 4, plus appendix] Recommended Secondary Texts* Bell, Ilona. “Rethinking Shakespeare’s Dark Lady.” A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Ed. Michael Schoenfeldt. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 293-­‐313. Halpern, Richard. Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan. Philadelphia: U of Penn P, 2002. Print. Wadding, Raymond B. “The Poetics of Eroticism: Shakespeare’s ‘Master-­‐Mistress.’” Renaissance Discourses of Desire. Ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-­‐Larry Pebworth. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1993. 13-­‐28. Print. * Contact Prof. Fluhr for .pdf files of all secondary texts. 2. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. I. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott, eds. New York: Routledge, 1992. (Proposer: Prof. Dodson) (THEORETICAL TEXT) Recommended Secondary Texts* Smith, Bruce R. “Sexuality and the Play of Imagination” in Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 1-­‐29. Downing, Lisa. The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (New York: Cambridge UP, 2008) (Esp. Ch. 6) Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Paul Rabinow. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 2nd edn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983) (Esp. Ch. 5, 6, and 8) * There is no required secondary text. 3. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. Benson, Larry, ed. The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. (Proposer: Prof. McBrine) ‘General Prologue’ ‘Knight’s Tale’ ‘Miller’s Prologue and Tale’ ‘Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale’ ‘Clerk’s Prologue and Tale’ ‘Merchant’s Prologue and Tale’ ‘Franklyn’s Prologue and Tale’ ‘Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale’ ‘Prioress’s Prologue and Tale’ ‘Nun’s Priest’s Prologue and Tale’ ‘Chaucer’s Retraction’ Required Secondary Text Benson, David. ‘The Canterbury Tales: Personal Drama or Experiments in Poetic Variety?’ In The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 127-­‐42. Recommended Secondary Texts Amtower, Laurel, and Jacqueline Vanhoutte. “The Structure of Society.” In A Companion to Chaucer and His Contemporaries. New York: Broadview Press, 2009: 70-­‐131. Burrow, J. A. The Cantebury Tales I: Romance. In The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 143–59. Pearsall, Derek. The Canterbury Tales II: Comedy. In The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 160–77. 4. John Milton, Paradise Lost (Proposer: Prof. Larocco) Required Secondary Text: Morrissey, Lee. “Eve’s Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism.” New Literary History 32.2 (Spring, 2001): 327-­‐345. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20057661 Recommended Secondary Texts: Ferry, Anne. “Milton’s Creation of Eve.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-­‐1900 28.1 (Winter, 1988): 114-­‐132. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450718 Froula, Christine. “When Eve Reads Milton: Undoing the Canonical Economy.” Critical Inquiry 10.2 (December, 1983): 321-­‐347. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343353 Mikics, David. “Miltonic Marriage and the Challenge to History in Paradise Lost.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 46.1 (Spring 2004): 20-­‐48. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40755402 5. Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) (Proposer: Prof. Fluhr) Required Secondary Text Dykstal, Timothy. “The Story of O: Politics and Pleasure in The Vicar of Wakefield.” ELH 62.2 (Summer, 1995): 329-­‐346. (JSTOR) Recommended Secondary Texts Carson, James P. “’The Little Republic’ of the Family: Goldsmith’s Politics of Nostalgia.” Eighteenth-­‐Century Fiction 16.2 (Jan. 2004): 174-­‐96. (Project Muse) Dixon, Peter. “The Vicar of Wakefield” in Oliver Goldsmith Revisited. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. (Buley) Durant, David. “The Vicar of Wakefield and the Sentimental Novel. Studies in English Literature, 1500-­‐1900 17.3 (Summer, 1977): 477-­‐491. (JSTOR) 6. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) (Proposer: Prof. Rosso) Required Secondary Text Sterrenburg, Lee. “Mary Shelley's Monster: Politics and Psyche in Frankenstein.” In The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel. George Levine and U.C. Knoepflmacher, eds. Berkeley, CA: U of California Press, 1982. 143-­‐71. Recommended Secondary Texts Brooks, Peter. “‘Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts’: Language, Nature, and Monstrosity.” In The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel. George Levine and U.C. Knoepflmacher, eds. Berkeley, CA: U of California Press, 1982. 205-­‐20. Moers, Ellen. “Female Gothic.” Literary Women. London: Woman’s Press, 1978. Rpt. in The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel. George Levine and U.C. Knoepflmacher, eds. Berkeley, CA: U of California Press, 1982. 77-­‐87. Shermin, Paul. “Frankenstein: Creation as Catastrophe.” In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Harold Bloom, ed. New York: Chelsea, 1987. 137-­‐67. 7. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Selected Short Stories (Proposer: Prof. Ellis) “The Birth-­‐mark,” “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” “The Artist of the Beautiful,” “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe,” “The Celestial Rail-­‐road,” “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” Required Secondary Text Newberry, Frederick. “‘The Artist of the Beautiful’: Crossing the Transcendent Divide in Hawthorne's Fiction.” Nineteenth-­‐Century Literature Vol. 50, No. 1 (June 1995): pp. 78-­‐96. Recommended Secondary Texts Bidney, Martin. “Fire, Flutter, Fall, and Scatter: A Structure of the Epiphanies of Hawthorne's Tales.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 50 (208): 58-­‐89. Fash, Lydia G. “The Chronicle and the Reckoning: A Temporal Paradox in Hawthorne's Twice-­‐Told Tales.” Narrative 21.2 (May 2013): 221-­‐242. Rucker, Mary E. “Science and Art in Hawthorne's ‘The Birth-­‐Mark.’” Nineteenth-­‐
Century Literature Vol. 41, No. 4 (March 1987): pp. 445-­‐461. 8. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) (Proposer: Prof. Neverow) Required Secondary Text Froula, Christine. “Mrs. Dalloway's Postwar Elegy: Women, War, and the Art of Mourning.” Modernism/modernity Vol. 9, No. 1, January 2002, pp. 125-­‐163 Recommended Secondary Texts DeMeester, Karen. “Trauma and Recovery in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 44, Number 3, Fall 1998, pp. 649-­‐673. Garvey, Johanna X. K. “Difference and Continuity: The Voices of Mrs. Dalloway.” College English Vol. 53, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 59-­‐76. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/377969 Zwerdling, Alex. “Mrs. Dalloway and the Social System.” PMLA Vol. 92, No. 1 (Jan., 1977), pp. 69-­‐82 Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/461415 9. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929) (Proposer: Prof. Petrie) Required Secondary Text Fetterley, Judith. “Hemingway’s ‘Resentful Cryptogram.’” Journal of Popular Culture 10.1 (Summer 1976): 203-­‐14. Also available in . . Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Modern Critical Interpretations ser. Harold Bloom, ed. NY: Chelsea House, 1987. Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. George Monteiro, ed. NY: G.K. Hall, 1994. Recommended Secondary Texts Dodman, Trevor. “‘Going All to Pieces’: A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative.” Twentieth Century Literature 52.3 (Fall 2006): 249-­‐274. Reynolds, Michael S. “Going Back.” Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Modern Critical Interpretations ser. Harold Bloom, ed. NY: Chelsea House, 1987. 49-­‐59. (Excerpted from Hemingway’s First War: The Making of A Farewell to Arms. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1976.) Spanier, Sandra Whipple. “Hemingway’s Unknown Soldier: Catherine Barkley, the Critics, and the Great War.” New Essays on A Farewell to Arms. Ed. Scott Donaldson. NY: Cambridge UP, 1990. 75-­‐108. 10. Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) Required Secondary Text Alexander, Elizabeth. “Coming out Blackened and Whole”: Fragmentation and Reintegration in Audre Lorde's Zami and The Cancer Journals.” American Literary History Vol. 6, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), pp. 695-­‐715. (Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/489961) Recommended Secondary Texts Ball M. Charlene. “Old Magic and New Fury: The Theaphany of Afrekete in Audre Lorde's "Tar Beach.” NWSA Journal Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 61-­‐85. (Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316783) DiBernard, Barbara. “Zami: A Portrait of an Artist as a Black Lesbian.” The Kenyon Review New Series, Vol. 13, No. 4, De Colores (Autumn, 1991), pp. 195-­‐213. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4336574) Porter, Nancy M. “Degrees of Difference: Teaching Zami and "Sister Gin" to White, Middle-­‐Class, Heterosexual Students.” Women's Studies Quarterly Vol. 21, No. 3/4, Feminist Pedagogy: An Update (Fall -­‐ Winter, 1993), pp. 57-­‐62. (Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40022006)