M.A. Issues in Modern Culture Reading List
2016—17
AUTUMN 2016
AUTHORS
1. FLAUBERT
DR. MICHAEL SAYEAU
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, trans. Geoffrey Wall (Penguin)
Further reading
Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
––––––––––. Dictionary of Received Ideas
––––––––––. Selected Letters
Jonathan Culler, Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (1974)
Elissa Marder, Dead Time (2001)
2. JOYCE
DR. SCARLETT BARON
James Joyce, Ulysses, ed. Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus
Melchior (New York: Random House, 1986) – available as a Vintage reprint.
This is the best critically edited text, but for a helpful introduction and useful notes
(as well as for an interesting variant text), see Ulysses, ed. Jeri Johnson (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1993).
Important further reading
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (the OUP edition has a
good introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson).
–––––––––. Dubliners (the OUP edition has a good introduction and notes by Jeri
Johnson; I have written an Introduction to the 2012 Vintage edition of the stories).
Further reading
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Selected Letters of James Joyce, ed. Richard Ellmann (London: Faber and
Faber, 1975).
Derek Attridge, Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, revd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1982).
Hugh Kenner, Joyce’s Voices (London: Faber and Faber, 1978).
Terence Killeen, ‘Ulysses’ Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to James Joyce’s
‘Ulysses’ (Dublin: Wordwell, 2005).
Sean Latham (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to ‘Ulysses’ (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Karen Lawrence, The Odyssey of Style in ‘Ulysses’ (Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 1981).
3. LAFORGUE AND ELIOT
PROF. NEIL RENNIE
A photocopied handout of material for consideration (Laforgue, Symons, Eliot) will be
provided before the seminar.
Further reading
Jules Laforgue, Selected Poems, ed. and trans. by Graham Dunstan Martin (Penguin)
T.S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare, ed. Christopher Ricks (Faber)
Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)
Gordon, Lyndall, Eliot’s Early Years (1977)
4. WOOLF
DR. SCARLETT BARON
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
–––––––––. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Further reading
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: Autobiographical Writings, ed. Jeanne
Schulkind, revised by Hermione Lee (London: Pimlico, 2002).
Rachel Bowlby, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997).
Julia Briggs, Reading Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2006).
Hermione Lee, The Novels of Virginia Woolf (London: Methuen, 1977).
Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (London: Chatto & Windus, 1997).
Sue Roe and Susan Sellers (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
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(Cambridge: CUP, 2000).
5. D.H. LAWRENCE
DR. HUGH STEVENS
D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, ed. Mark Kinkead-Weekes (Penguin, 2000)
Further reading
Anne Fernihough, ed., The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence (2000)
Morag Shiach, Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture,
1890-1930 (2004)
Hilary Simpson, D. H. Lawrence and Feminism (1982)
Peter Widdowson, ed., D. H. Lawrence (1992)
John Worthen, D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005)
READING WEEK
6. ELIZABETH BOWEN
PROF. GREG DART
Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (1948)
Additional primary reading
‘In the Square’, ‘The Demon Lover’, and ‘Mysterious Kor’ from Collected Stories,
ed. Angus Wilson (London: Vintage, 1999).
‘London, 1940’, ‘Coming to London’, ‘Postscript to The Demon Lover’, 'Review of
the People's War' from The Mulberry Tree, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage,
1999).
Further reading
Hermione Lee, Elizabeth Bowen (Vintage 1999)
Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow across the Page (Edinburgh,
2003)
Gill Plain, Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (Edinburgh, 1996)
Angus Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (Jonathan Cape, 1991)
7. SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER
PROF. PETER SWAAB
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (London: Chatto and Windus, 1926)
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Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mr Fortune’s Maggot (1927)
––––––––––. Opus Seven (1931), reprinted in Collected Poems, ed. Claire
Harman (2009)
––––––––––. ‘But at the Stroke of Midnight’, first published in The New Yorker in
1967, collected in The Innocent and the Guilty (1971)
––––––––––. ‘The Way I Have Come’, first published in The Countryman (July
1939), reprinted in The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society (2007)
David Garnett, Lady Into Fox (1922)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
––––––––––. A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Criticism
Gillian Beer, ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner: “The Centrifugal Kick”’, in The Journal of
the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society (2004), pp. 18-31, reprinted from Women
Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics, History, edited by Maroula Joannou
(Edinburgh University Press, 1999)
Jane Garrity, Stepdaughters of England (2003), chapter 3, pp. 140-187.
Claire Harman, Sylvia Townsend Warner (1989) (biography)
Mary Jacobs, ‘Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Politics of the English Pastoral
1925-1934’, in Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist,
edited by Gill Davies, David Malcolm and John Simons (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen
Press, 2006), pp. 61-82
Wendy Mulford, This Narrow Place (London: Pandora, 1986) (biographical study
of Warner and Valentine Ackland)
Peter Swaab, ‘The Queerness of Lolly Willowes’, The Journal of the Sylvia
Townsend Warner Society (2010), pp. 29-52
Rosemary Sykes, ‘The Willowes Pattern’, The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend
Warner Society (2001), pp. 1-17.
8. WILLA CATHER
PROF. PETER SWAAB
Willa Cather, Death Comes for Archbishop (1927)
Recommended further reading
Willa Cather, My Àntonia (1918), ‘Coming, Aphrodite!’ (1920) A Lost Lady (1923),
The Professor’s House (1925)
Secondary reading
Jonathan Goldberg, Willa Cather and Others (2001)
Hermione Lee, Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up (1989)
Marilee Lindemann, Wiila Cather: Queering America (1999)
Guy Reynolds, ‘The Ideology of Cather's Catholic Progressivism in Death Comes
for the Archbishop’, Cather Studies 3 (1996)
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The Willa Cather Archive http://cather.unl.edu/ has a good deal of useful
material, including electronic versions of the scholarly editions of some of
Cather’s novels published by the University of Nebraska Press. It also includes
the full run of the biennial journal Cather Studies, first published in 1990
(http://cather.unl.edu/index.cs.html).
9. SAMUEL BECKETT
DR. JULIA JORDAN
Samuel Beckett, Molloy (London: Faber & Faber, 2009)
Further Reading
Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies; The Unnamable [available with Molloy as Three
Novels, New York: Grove Press, 2009]
Chris Ackerley and Stanley E. Gontarski (eds), The Grove Companion To Samuel
Beckett (New York: Grove Press, 2004)
Steven Connor, Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory, and Text (London: Davies
Group, 1988)
Christopher Ricks: Beckett’s Dying Words (New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995)
Laura Salisbury, Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing (Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
10. BISHOP
PROF. MARK FORD
Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979 (Chatto and Windus &
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1983) Please read widely in Bishop's poetry,
including these poems: The Map – The Fish – A Cold Spring – Over 2,000
Illustrations and a Complete Concordance – The Bight – At the Fishhouses –
Brazil, January 1, 1502 – Questions of Travel – First Death in Nova Scotia –
Filling Station – Manuelzinho – The Riverman – In the Waiting Room – Crusoe in
England – Poem – One Art – The End of March – Five Flights Up – North Haven
– Sonnet.
The Collected Prose (Chatto and Windus & Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1984)
One Art: Letters of Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994)
Exchanging Hats: Paintings, ed.William Benton (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
1996)
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jukebox: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments,
edited by Alice Quinn (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006)
Words in Air: the Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and
Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton (Faber, 2008)
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Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence, edited by
Joelle Bielle (FSG, 2011)
Websites
These four websites are a very good place to start. They include critical debate
on poems, biographical and other information, links to Bishop reading and being
interviewed, and more detailed bibliographical matter.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/bishop.htm
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/us_poetry/Bishop/
http://www.uvm.edu/~sgutman/Bishop.html
http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=420
Further reading
David Bromwich, Skeptical Music (2001)
Anne Colwell, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of
Elizabeth Bishop, (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997).
Bonnie Costello, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1991.
Lorrie Goldensohn, Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1991)
David Kalstone, Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and
Robert Lowell, (revised edition, 1989)
Lionel Kelly (ed.), Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on John
Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop (Rodopi, 2000)
Marilyn May Lombardi, The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995)
Lombardi, Marilyn May, ed. The Geography of Gender (University Press of
Virginia, 1993) (See especially the essay on ‘In the Waiting Room’ by Lee
Edelman)
Essays on Elizabeth Bishop From The 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference At WPI
(New York: Peter Lang, 1999)
George Monteiro (ed.), Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop (Jackson: University
of Mississippi Press, 1996)
Anne Stevenson, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop (1998)
Thomas Travisano, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development (1988)
Thomas Travisano, Modernist Quartet (2000)
Helen Vendler, ‘The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop', Critical Inquiry, Vol. 13 (1987),
825-838
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CONTEXTS: THE CITY
1. MODERNITY AND THE CITY
DR. JULIA JORDAN
Charles Baudelaire, ‘Tableaux Parisiens’ (Poems LXXXVI-CIII) from Les Fleurs
du Mal, ed. by E. Starkie (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1959). English/French parallel
text available in Selected Poems ed. Carol Clark (Penguin).
Sophie Calle, Double Game (Violette Editions, 2007) [This text is quite expensive
so I will circulate some extracts before class]
Further Reading:
Charles Baudelaire, ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ in The Painter of Modern Life
and other essays (London: Phaidon, 2001).
Walter Benjamin, ‘The Flâneur’ from Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era
of High Capitalism (London: Verso Books).
Rachel Bowlby, ‘Walking, Women and Writing: Virginia Woolf as flâneuse’, in Still
Crazy After All these Years (London: Routledge, 1992).
Mary Ann Caws, The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter (MIT Press, 1997)
Lauren Elkin, Flaneuse: the (Feminine) Art of Walking in Cities (London: Chatto &
Windus, 2016)
F.T. Marinetti, ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’, in Apollonio, Umbro,
ed. Documents of 20th Century Art: Futurist Manifestos. Brain, Robert, R.W.
Flint, J.C. Higgitt, and Caroline Tisdall, trans. (New York: Viking Press, 1973).
pp.19-24.) Available online.
2. PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
DR. ROB TURNER
Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, From Hell (1996; Knockabout, 2006)
Selections from Oscar Zarate (ed.), It’s Dark in London (Self Made Hero, 2012)
Patrick Keiller, London and Robinson in Space (1994; BFI DVD, 2012)
Further reading
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967; Rebel Press, 1992)
Stewart Home, Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and
Semiotic Terrorism (Serpent's Tail, 1997)
Patrick Keiller, The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes (Verso Books,
2014)
Will Self and Ralph Steadman, Psychogeography (Bloomsbury, 2007)
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Iain Sinclair, London Orbital (Penguin, 2003)
3. THE BODY AND TECHNOLOGY
DR. JULIA JORDAN
J.G. Ballard, Crash (London: Fourth Estate, 2014)
Further reading
J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition, first published 1970, rev. edn. (London,
Harper Perennial, 2006)
Marc Augé, Non-places, John Howe, trans. (London; New York: Verso, 1995).
Nicholas Daly, Literature, Technology and Modernity: 1860—2000 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004).
4. CLASS AND THE CITY
DR. MATTHEW SPERLING
Zadie Smith, NW (2012)
Ben Lerner, 10:04 (Granta, 2015)
Further reading
Gary Day, Class (The New Critical Idiom) (Routledge, 2001)
Lawrence Driscoll, Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature (Palgrave, 2011)
Writers For The 99%, Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story Of An Action That
Changed America (Scribe Publications, 2012)
Philip Tew (ed), Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond (Bloomsbury,
2013)
5. MYSTERIOUS CITIES
PROF. NEIL RENNIE
Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, ‘The Mystery of Marie Roget’, ‘The
Purloined Letter’ (in various collections of Poe’s stories)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
Further reading
Chandler, Raymond, ‘The Simple Art of Murder’, in Pearls Are a Nuisance (and other
collections of Chandler’s essays)
Knight, Stephen, Crime Fiction 1800-2000 (2004)
Strabnick, Amy Gilman, The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers (1995)
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READING WEEK
6. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
DR. ROB TURNER
Jean Toomer, Cane (1923; Norton Critical Editions, 2011)
Selections from Langston Hughes, Collected Poems (Vintage, 1995)
Further reading
Houston A. Baker, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (University of Chicago
Press, 1989)
Langston Hughes, The Big Sea (Knopf, 1940)
Alain Locke (ed.), The New Negro (1925; Touchstone, 1999)
Richard Powell (ed.), Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (University of
California Press, 1997)
7. HOLLYWOOD FICTION
PROF. GREG DART
The context here is Los Angeles and the texts are a series of films and novels made in
and about Hollywood. In the first half of the seminar we will concentrate on Fitzgerald,
West, Mike Davis and Hollywood’s early history; in the second half we will talk about
Lynch, Baudrillard and post-modernity.
Film:
David Lynch, Mulholland Drive (2002)
Fiction:
F.S. Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon, (Penguin Classics: London, 2010).
N. West, The Day of the Locust, (Penguin: London, 2006).
Further reading:
M. Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, (Verso: London; New
York, 2006).
J. Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor,
1994).
Further primary reading:
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J. Fante, Ask the Dust, (Black Sparrow: Santa Barbara, 1980).
E. Waugh, The Loved One: an Anglo-American Tragedy, (Penguin: London, 2011).
R. Chandler, The Long Good-bye, (Hamish Hamilton: London, 2009).
B. Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, (University of California Press: Berkeley, Calif.; London,
1999).
8. QUEER FICTIONS AND THE CITY
DR. HUGH STEVENS
Extracts will be made available from:
Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar (1948)
Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance (1978)
Oscar Moore, A Matter of Life and Sex (1991)
Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony (1997)
Further reading
Les Brookes, Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics (New
York: Routledge, 2009)
Guy Davidson, Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism,
and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures (New York: Palgrave, 2012)
Stevens, Hugh, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing (Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2011).
9. SPECIES OF SPACES
SPERLING
DR. MATTHEW
Georges Perec, ‘Species of Spaces’ (1974), in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
(Penguin), ed. and trans. John Sturrock
J. G. Ballard, ‘Billennium’ (1961) and ‘The Enormous Space’ (1989), in The Complete
Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (Fourth Estate), volumes 1 and 2 respectively
Harold Pinter, The Room (1957) and The Caretaker (1960) – both published by Faber &
Faber in various editions
Further reading and viewing
Georges Perec, Life: A User’s Manual, trans. David Bellos (1987)
Clive Donner (dir.), The Caretaker (1963)
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Richard Curson Smith (dir.), Home (2003) – BBC adaptation of Ballard’s ‘The Enormous
Space’, available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kce94adFCMc
Gerry Smyth and Jo Croft (ed.), Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in
Modern Culture (Rodopi, 2006)
Chiara Briganti and Kathy Mezei (ed.), The Domestic Space Reader (University of
Toronto, 2012)
10. CATASTROPHE
DR. JULIA JORDAN
William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops. dlp 1.1; dlp 1.2. [available on
YouTube]
Tom McCarthy, Remainder (London: Vintage, 2005)
Further reading
Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, trans. Ann Smock (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1986)
Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy, ‘Derail Yourself’, The International
Necronautical Society, ‘Declaration on the Notion of the Future,’ The Believer,
November/December 2010.
Ross Hamilton, Accident (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Paul Virilio, The Original Accident (Cambridge: Polity, 2007)
SPRING 2017
AUTHORS
1. ELLISON
DR. ROB TURNER
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952; Penguin Modern Classics, 2001)
Further reading
John F. Callahan (ed.) Trading Twelves: The Selected Correspondence of Ralph
Ellison and Albert Murray (Modern Library, 2000)
Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act (1964; Vintage, 1996)
Robert O’Meally (ed.), New Essays on Invisible Man (Cambridge University
Press, 1988)
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Carol Polsgrove, Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement (W.
W. Norton & Company, 2001)
Joseph F. Trimmer (ed.), A Casebook on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Thomas
Y. Cromwell Company, 1972)
2. HITCHCOCK
PROF. PHILIP HORNE
Alfred Hitchcock (dir.), Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Alfred Hitchcock (dir.), Rear Window (1954)
Further viewing
Rebecca (1940)
Spellbound (1945); Notorious (1946)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
The Wrong Man (1957)
Vertigo (1958);
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)
3. PLATH
PROF. MARK FORD
Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems (1981)
Please read:
You’re – The Hanging Man – Morning Song – Crossing the Water – Elm – The
Rabbit Catcher – Poppies in July – Burning the Letters – The Bee Meeting – The
Arrival of the Bee Box – Daddy – Fever 103 – Cut – Ariel – Poppies in October –
Nick and the Candlestick – Lady Lazarus – Sheep in Fog – Child – Kindness –
Words – Balloons – Edge
Further reading
Bloom, Harold (ed.), Sylvia Plath (1989)
Britzolakis, Christina, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (1999)
Gill, Jo, (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (2006)
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Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita, Sylvia Plath: Studies in her Poetry and her Personality
(2002)
Malcolm, Janet, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (1995)
Rose, Jacqueline, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991)
Rowland, Antony, Holocaust Poetry: Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia
Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes (2005)
Wagner, Linda, (ed.) Critical essays on Sylvia Plath (1984)
5. DYLAN
PROF. PHILIP HORNE
Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde (1966)
––––––––. Blood on the Tracks (1975)
Further listening
Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Oh Mercy (1989)
Love and Theft (2001)
Biograph (1985)
The Bootleg Series Vols 1-3 (1991) are good compilations
Reading
John Bauldie (ed.), Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan (1992)
Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (2004)
Michael Gray, Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan (2000)
Michael Gray & John Bauldie (eds), All Across the Telegraph: A Bob Dylan
Handbook (1987)
Clinton Heylin, Behind the Shades Revisited (2001)
Christopher Ricks, Dylan’s Visions of Sin (2003)
READING WEEK
6. HIGHSMITH
DR. MATTHEW SPERLING
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley (1955)
–––––––––––. Ripley Under Ground (1970)
Further Reading and Viewing
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Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train (1950), The Price of Salt (1952; later reissued as Carol), Deep Water (1957), The Cry of the Owl (1962), Ripley’s Game
(1974)
Film adaptations: Alfred Hitchcock (dir.), Strangers on a Train (1952), René
Clément, Purple Noon [Plein Soleil] (1960), Wim Wenders (dir.), The American
Friend (1977), Anthony Minghella (dir.), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), Liliana
Cavani (dir.), Ripley’s Game (2002), Todd Haynes (dir.), Carol (2015)
Joan Schenkar, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of
Patricia Highsmith (2009)
7. MORRISON
DR. ROB TURNER
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987; Vintage, 1997)
Further reading
Harold Bloom (ed.), Toni Morrison: Modern Critical Views (Chelsea House, 1990)
La Vinia Delois Jennings, Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa (Cambridge
University Press, 2008)
John N. Duvall, The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity
and Postmodern Blackness (Palgrave, 2000)
Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
(Harvard University Press, 1992)
8. HOLLINGHURST
DR. MATTHEW SPERLING
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004)
Further Reading
The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1994), The Spell, (1998),
The Stranger's Child (2011)
Allan Johnson, Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2014)
Michele Mendelssohn and Denis Flannery (ed.), Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under
the Influence (Manchester University Press, 2016)
Peter Terzian, ‘Alan Hollinghurst: The Art of Fiction No. 214’ (interview), The
Paris Review (2011) http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6116/the-art-offiction-no-214-alanhollinghurst
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9. DAVID SIMON (THE WIRE)
PROF. MATTHEW BEAUMONT
David Simon et al., The Wire, Season One (13 episodes, 2002)
Further viewing
The Wire, Seasons 2-5 (47 episodes, 2003-2008)
Further reading
Alvarez, Rafael, The Wire: Truth Be Told (Canongate, 2009)
Anderson, P.A., ‘“The Game Is the Game”: Tautology and Allegory in The Wire,’
Criticism, 52.3 (2010): 373-98
Jameson, Fredric, ‘Realism and Utopia in The Wire,’ Criticism, 52.3-4 (2010):
359-372
Klein, A. A. (2009) ‘“The Dickensian Aspect”: Melodrama, Viewer Engagement
and the Socially Conscious Text’; in T. Potter and C.W. Marshall (eds), The Wire:
Urban Decay and American Television, (Continuum, 2009), 177-189
Marshall, C.W. and Potter, T., ‘“I am the American Dream”: Modern Urban
Tragedy and the Borders of Fiction,’ in Marshall and Potter (eds), The Wire:
Urban Decay and American Television, (Continuum, 2009), 1-14.
Simon, David, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Canongate, 1991)
10. FOSTER WALLACE
SAYEAU
DR. MICHAEL
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
––––––––––. ‘This is Water’ (2009)
Further reading
David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999)
D.T. Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
(2012)
Cohen and Konstantinou, (eds), The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (2012)
Stephen Burn (ed.), Conversations with David Foster Wallace (2012)
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OPTIONS SEMINARS
Please note: full reading lists for Options courses will be released nearer the
time.
Group A: Cultures of Offence – Dr. Scarlett Baron
Group B: Modernism and Sex – Dr. Hugh Stevens
Group C: Contemporary Poetry – Prof. Mark Ford, Dr. Sarah Howe, Dr. Eric
Langley
READING WEEK
Group A: Inventions of Cinema – Prof. Philip Horne
Group B: Global Anglophone Fiction – Dr. Matthew Sperling
Group C: Afrofuturism – Dr. Rob Turner
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