Literary Criticism Contest Reading List 2017-2018

LITERARY CRITICISM
2017-2018 READING LIST
FICTION
HANDBOOK
TO
LITERATURE
Authority for Part I
of the contest,
Literary History,
and Literary Terms:
A Handbook to
Literature,
12th edition
William Harmon, ed.
ISBN 0205024017
ISBN 9780205024018
Available from
TEP, Inc.
800-443-2078
www.tepbooks.comst
List price: $66.98
plus shipping
and from
PrenticeHall, Inc.
800-848-9500
www.mypearsonsrore.com
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Wordsworth Classics
$5.20 plus 8% shipping ($10.00 minimum)
Penguin-Random House, 1992 ISBN 9780141439556
Any unabridged edition of this selection is appropriate for the competition.
POETRY
John Donne: Poems
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
$9.72 plus 8% shipping ($10.00 minimum)
Knopf, 1995 ISBN 978-0679444671
The Anniversary
The Bait
The Canonization
The Flea
The Indifferent
Holy Sonnet 1
[Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?]
Holy Sonnet 5
[I am a little world made cunningly]
Holy Sonnet 7
[At the round earth's imagined corners, blow]
Holy Sonnet 10 [Death, be not proud, though some have called thee]
Holy Sonnet 14 [Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you]
Holy Sonnet 18 [Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear]
Love's Alchemy
Love's Deity
Love's Growth
The Relic
Song [Go and catch a falling star]
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Woman's Constancy
Any unabridged edition of these selections is appropriate for the competition.
List price: $78.80
free ground shipping
DRAMA
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
$5.17 plus 8% shipping ($10.00 minimum)
Penguin-Random House, 2004 ISBN 978-0679755333
Any unabridged version of the play is appropriate for the competition.