CSUS English Department

2004 READING LIST

I. BRITISH LITERATURE

The Second Shepherd's Play

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Joseph Fielding, Tom Jones

Jane Austin, Emma

William Wycherley, The Country Wife

Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale," " Ode on a Grecian Urn," Ode on Melancholy," Ode to Psyche"

Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto," "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "Prophyria's Lover," "My Last Duchess"

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Beings Earnest

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

James Joyce, Dubliners

J. M. Synge, Playboy of the Western World

W. B. Yeats, "Leda and the Swan," "The Second Coming," "Among Schoolchildren," "Sailing to Byzantium"

W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," "Musée des Beaux Arts," "In Priase of Limestone"

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

Eavan Boland, "New Territory," "The War Horse," "That the Science of Cartography is Limited," "The Dolls Museum"

II. American Literature

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" "The Divinity School Address"

Herman Melville, "Billy Budd," "Bartleby the Scrivener"

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, "The Art of Fiction"

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed–" [214], "The Soul selects her own Society–" [303], "After a great pain, a formal feeling comes–" [341], "I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–" [465], "I've seen a Dying Eye" [547], "Because I could not stop for Death–" [712]

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Williams, "Raleigh was Right," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "Spring and All"

Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Adrienne Rich, "Ghazals," "Planetarium," "Diving into the Wreck"

Edward Albee, Zoo Story

Toni Morrison, Beloved

Guy Garcia, Skin Deep

III. Critical/Theoretical Works

Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"

William Wordsworth, "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads

Raymond Selden, A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory

David Lodge, The Art of Fiction

PDF copy of Prof. Madden's "Taking Notes" handout here.

PDF copies of Theory Notes here


	2004 READING LIST I. BRITISH LITERATURE The Second Shepherd's Play William Shakespeare, The Tempest George Eliot, Middlemarch Joseph Fielding, Tom Jones Jane Austin, Emma William Wycherley, The Country Wife Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale," " Ode on a Grecian Urn," Ode on Melancholy," Ode to Psyche" Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto," "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "Prophyria's Lover," "My Last Duchess" Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Beings Earnest Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway James Joyce, Dubliners J. M. Synge, Playboy of the Western World W. B. Yeats, "Leda and the Swan," "The Second Coming," "Among Schoolchildren," "Sailing to Byzantium" W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," "Musée des Beaux Arts," "In Priase of Limestone" Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day Eavan Boland, "New Territory," "The War Horse," "That the Science of Cartography is Limited," "The Dolls Museum" II. American Literature Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" "The Divinity School Address" Herman Melville, "Billy Budd," "Bartleby the Scrivener" Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, "The Art of Fiction" Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed–" [214], "The Soul selects her own Society–" [303], "After a great pain, a formal feeling comes–" [341], "I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–" [465], "I've seen a Dying Eye" [547], "Because I could not stop for Death–" [712] Kate Chopin, The Awakening F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Williams, "Raleigh was Right," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "Spring and All" Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Adrienne Rich, "Ghazals," "Planetarium," "Diving into the Wreck" Edward Albee, Zoo Story Toni Morrison, Beloved Guy Garcia, Skin Deep III. Critical/Theoretical Works Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism" William Wordsworth, "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads Raymond Selden, A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory David Lodge, The Art of Fiction PDF copy of Prof. Madden's "Taking Notes" handout here. PDF copies of Theory Notes here
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