Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
“The Wanderer,” “The Seafarer,” “The Dream of the Rood,” “The Wife’s Lament “The
Battle of Maldon” (translations acceptable)
2. * Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). The Canterbury Tales (Larry D. Benson, ed. The
Riverside Chaucer [Boston, 1987])
General Prologue, Knight’s Tale, Miller’s Tale, Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Clerk’s
Tale, Merchant’s Tale, Franklin’s Tale, Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, Prioress’s Tale,
Nun’s Priest’s Tale
3. Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde (Larry D. Benson, ed. The Riverside
Chaucer [Boston, 1987])
4. Verse Romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375-1400) (R. A. Waldron and Malcolm Andrew,
eds., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript, York Medieval Texts [Berkeley, Calif., 1979];
Marie Borroff, trans. [New York, 1967])
Pearl (R. A. Waldron and Malcolm Andrew, eds., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript,
York Medieval Texts [Berkeley, Calif., 1979]; Marie Borroff, trans. [New York, 1977])
Piers Plowman (“B” or “C” Text): Prologue and Passus 1-7 (E. Talbot Donaldson, trans.,
Piers Plowman, An Alliterative Verse Translation [New York, 1990] is a satisfactory
translation of the “B” Text.)
Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (Marion Glasscoe, ed., rev. ed. [Exeter, 1993])
6. Lyrics (esp. in R. L. Stevick, ed., One Hundred Middle English Lyrics, rev. ed.
[Urbana, Ill., 1994], and Maxwell S. Luria and Richard L. Hoffman, eds., Middle English
Lyrics, Norton Critical Edition [New York, 1974])
7. Middle English Drama: Morality and Mystery (Cycle) Plays (Except as noted
below, they appear in David Bevington, ed., Medieval Drama [Boston, 1975])
Everyman
Second Shepherd’s Play (Wakefield), and TWO of the following:
Abraham and Isaac (Brome, possibly from a cycle; in A. C. Cawley, ed., Everyman and
Medieval Miracle Plays, [New York, 1959]; also in Norman Davis, ed., Non-Cycle Plays
and Fragments, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series 1, 1970)
Noah (Wakefield)
The Shepherds (York Chandlers)
The Crucifixion (York Pinners and Painters)
8. Sir Thomas Malory (d. 1471), selections from Le Morte d’Arthur (Preferred
edition: E. Vinaver, ed., The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, 3rd ed., rev. P. J. C. Field, 3
vols. [Oxford, 1990]; Library call number PR2041 .V5 1990. The Vinaver/Field text is
from London, British Library, MS Add. 59678, usually known as the “Winchester
Manuscript”; Caxton’s widely available text is also acceptable.)
Shakespeare’s plays and Milton’s Paradise Lost are required. For selections from clusters,
please confer with Renaissance/Early Modern faculty and your committee.
An asterisk (*) indicates required reading
1. Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599): Books I and III of The Faerie Queen (1590); and
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), selected speeches.
4. * Shakespeare (1564-1616): 6 plays ( include at least one play from each of the
following genres: comedy, tragedy, history, romance)
9. Sonnet cluster: selected sonnets from Mary Wroth (1586-1640), Sir Philip Sidney
(1554-86), and Shakespeare (1564-1616)
10. Lyric Cluster: selected poems by John Donne (1572-1631), Gertrude More (1604-
1633), George Herbert (1593-1633), and Richard Crashaw (c.1613-1649)
11. “Querelle des Femmes” Cluster: Joseph Swetnam (fl. 1615-119), Jane Anger (fl.
1588), Rachel Speght (fl. 1597-after 1621)
12. Transvestism Cluster: Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl (1611); Hic
Mulier/Haec Vir (1620)
13. Colonial Cluster: selections from Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1554-1618), The Discovery
of Guiana (1596); Edmund Spenser (1552-99) View of the State of Ireland (1633);
Aphra Behn (1640-89), Oroonoko (1688)
For selections from clusters, confer with faculty in the field and your committee.
1. John Dryden (1631-1700), Absalom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe, All for Love
5. Restoration and 18th c. Drama (choose 4): Aphra Behn (1640-89), The Rover;
William Congreve (1670-1729), The Way of the World; George Etherege (1634?-1691?),
The Man of Mode; Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-74), She Stoops to Conquer; Thomas Otway,
Venice Preserv’d; Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), The School for Scandal;
William Wycherley (1640-1716), The Country Wife
6. Women in Dialogue: selected poems, short stories, and nonfictional prose excerpts by
Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn (164?-1689), Mary Astell, Anne Finch, Eliza Haywood,
Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollestonecraft (1759-97), Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-
1825)
9. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), Rasselas, “Pope” from Lives of the Poets, “The Vanity of
Human Wishes
10. Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-74), The Vicar of Wakefield, “The Deserted Village”
11. Poetry of Sensibility: selections from Edward Young (1683-1765), James Thomson
(1700- 48), Thomas Gray (1716-71) William Collins (1721-59), William Cowper (1731-
1800)
12. Slavery and Revolution: selected poems and nonfictional prose excerpts
SLAVERY:
1) Raymond Harris: Scriptural Researches on the licitness of the Slave Trade, shewing its
conformity with the principles of natural and revealed religion (1788)
2) Ignatius Sancho: from The Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho (1782)
3) Ottabah Cugoano (aka John Stuart): Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked
Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)
4) Olaudah Equiano: from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or
Gustavus Vassa the African,Written by Himself (1789)
5) Samuel Johnson: “A Brief to Free a Slave” (1777/1792)
6) William Cowper: “The Negro’s Complaint”(1788)
7) Hannah More: “Slavery, A Poem” (1788)
8) Robert Southey: Sonnet Sequence [6 sonnets]: “On the Slave Trade” (1791/1794)
9) Edmund Burke: “Sketch of a Negro Code” (1792)
REVOLUTION:
1) Richard Price: from “A Discourse on the Love of Our Country” (1789)
2) Edmund Burke: from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
3) Mary Wollestonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1790)
4) Thomas Paine: from Rights of Man (1791)
5) William Blake: “A Song of Liberty” (1792)
4. Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), The Broken Spears: The Aztec History of the
Conquest (Leon-Portilla edition)
11. Anne Bradstreet, (1612?-1672), selected poems (from either the Norton or Heath)
13. Edward Taylor (1642?-1729), selected poems (from either Norton or Heath)
14. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651?-1695), “Villancico VI from Santa Catarina”
15. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), pick two of the following: “Images of Divine
Things,” “A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God,” “Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God”
18. J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813), from Letters from an American
Farmer: “Letters 1-3" and “Letters 9-12.”
20. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano
23. Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), Edgar Huntly or Arthur Mervyn (choose
one)
14. Charles Dickens (1812-70), choose one: Bleak House or David Copperfield or
Dombey and Son or Great Expectations
18. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Jude the Obscure or Tess of the D/Urbervilles, selected
poems
19. The Pre-Raphaelites and associates: selections from D.G. Rossetti (1828-82),
Christina Rossetti (1830-94), William Morris (1834-96), Algernon Charles
Swinburne (1837-1909)
21. Victorian Prose Writers (choose 3 authors): selections from Matthew Arnold
(1822-88), Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Charles Darwin (1809-82), John Henry
Newman (1801-90), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Walter Pater (1839-94), John
Ruskin (1819-1900), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
22. Sensationalist Fiction: (choose 2): Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; Sir Aruthur
Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; H. Ryder Haggard, King Solomon’s
Mines; Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Bram Stoker, Dracula; H.G.
Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
19th Century American Literature
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), “Nature,” “The American Scholar,” “The Over-
Soul,” “The Poet,” “Experience,” “Fate,” “The Rhodora,” “Circles.”
6. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and “The
Purloined Letter.”
16. María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895), Who Would Have Thought It?
19. Henry James (1843-1916), “Daisy Miller,” “The Figure in the Carpet,” “The Turn of
the Screw”
22. Stephen Crane (1871-1900): Student may choose any five Crane stories.
1. Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924), “Preface” to Nigger of the Narcissus and either Lord
Jim or Heart of Darkness
2. Shaw, G.B. (1856-1950), Two plays from: Heartbreak House, Misalliance, Mrs.
Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion
7. Joyce, James (1882-1941), Ulysses, or both Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and
Dubliners
10. World War I Poets: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), Wilfred Owen (1893-1918),
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) (NAMCP)
12. Greene, Graham (1904-1991), Brighton Rock or The Heart of the Matter
13. Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989), Waiting for Godot
14. Auden, W.H. (1907-1973), selected poems (Norton Anthology of Modern and
Contemporary Poetry)
15. Spark, Muriel (1918-), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie or Memento Mori
16. Larkin, Philip (1922-1985), selected poems (NAMCP) or Heaney (1939-), selected
poems (NAMCP)
19. Carter, Angela (1940-1992), Burning Your Boats or Jeanette Winterson (1959-),
Sexing the Cherry
21. Smith, Zadie (1975-), White Teeth or Hanif Kureshi (1954-), My Beautiful
Laundrette
1. James, Henry (1843-1916), The Ambassadors or The Golden Bowl or The Wings of
the Dove
7. Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963), Paterson and Spring and All, or Selected
poems and Spring and All
11. Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965), The Wasteland, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and
three essays (one of which must be “Tradition and the Individual Talent”)
12. Cain, James (1892-1977), Double Indemnity or The Postman Always Rings Twice or
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), The Maltese Falcon
13. Faulkner, William (1892-1962), Absalom! Absalom! or The Sound and The Fury
14. Gold, Michael (1893-1967), Jews Without Money or Henry Roth (1906-1995), Call
it Sleep
17. Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961), In Our Time or The Sun Also Rises or A Farewell
to Arms
19. Hurston, Zora Neale (1901?-1960), Their Eyes Were Watching God
26. Gonzales, Rodolfo, I am Joaquin or Luis Valdez (1940-), Zoot Suit or Jose Antònio
Villarreal (1924-), Pocho
27. O’Connor, Flannery (1925-1964), Everything that Rises Must Converge or A Good
Man is Hard to Find
33. Pynchon, Thomas (1937-), The Crying of Lot 49 or Don DeLillo (1936-), White
Noise
38. Drama (choose 5 plays by any of these authors): Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets,
Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, John Guare,
August Wilson, LeRoi Jones, David Henry Hwang, Eugene O'Neill, Lorraine
Hansberry, Edward Albee, Lillian Helman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Thornton Wilder,
Neil Simon.
40. Prose Writers (choose 3): Mencken (selected essays), Bourne (selected essays),
Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Caribbean:
1. Jean Rhys (1890-1979), Wide Sargasso Sea or V.S. Naipaul (1932-), Guerrillas or A
House for Mr. Biswas
4. Jamaica Kincaid (1949-), A Small Place or Edwidge Danticat (1969-), Breath, Eyes,
Memory
South Asia:
5. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), The Home and the World
Africa:
9. Nadine Gordimer (1923-), Selected stories or Burger’s Daughter, or J. M. Coetzee
(1940-), Foe
Canada:
12. Robertson Davies (1913-1995), Fifth Business
Australia/New Zealand:
14. David Malouf (1934-), An Imaginary Life
East Asia:
17. Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung, eds., Island, Poetry and History of
Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940.
18. Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-), Remains of the Day or Norma Field, From my
Grandmother’s Bedside
19. Ha Jin (1956-), Waiting or Under the Red Flag, or Anchee Min (1957-), Red Azalea
or Becoming Madame Mao