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English Reading List
English Reading List
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Turl Strreet, Oxforrd OX1 3DW
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Peculiar Language (R
Routledge, 20
0042)
particulaarly the Intro
oduction
Barry, Peter
Eagleto
on, Terry
Fish, Sttanley
How O
Ordinary is Ordinary
O
Langguage?, in
Is There a Text in thiss Class? (Harrvard, 1980)
Jakobso
on, Roman
Wimsa
att, W.K.
Old English
This papper offers ann opportunitty to learn aabout the eaarliest extantt English liteerature: the canonical
Beowulf as well as elegies, ridd
dles, dream-vvisions, hero
oic poetry, and religiouus verse. Th
he period
studied is the 6th to 11th centuries, an era thhat saw the conversion
c
of
o the Englishh to Christiianity, the
Viking innvasions, thee reign of Kin
ng Alfred, thhe productio
on of cultural artefacts suuch as the Lindisfarne
gospels and the Suttton Hoo treaasures, and tthe writing down of a divverse range oof vernacularr texts.
Suggested Readin
ng:
Heaneyy, Seamus (trans)
(
Beowulff (Norton)
Anglo-Saaxon Poetry
Crossle
ey-Holland,, Kevin (ed.)
Bruce M
Mitchell & (ed.)
Fred C. Robinson
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Primary Texts
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)
Ricks, Christopher (ed.)
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
(1830)
Poems (1832)
Poems (1842)
The Princess
Robert Browning
Thomas Carlyle
Elizabeth Gaskell
Thomas Hardy
Henry James
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Thackeray
Oscar Wilde
Secondary Texts
Armstrong, Isobel
Conrad, Peter
Davis, Philip
Griffiths, Eric
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Houghton, Walter E.
Willey, Basil
Primary Texts
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)
Stephen Hero (1904-6, published 1944 New Directions Publishing)
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses (also available in an edition by The Bodley Head)
Finnegans Wake (also available in an edition by Faber and Faber)
Mrs Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Orlando
The Waves
The Years
Between the Acts
If you are especially interested in Woolf you should also look at her Diaries, published by Penguin.
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
[All published by Faber and Faber]
The Complete Poems and Plays (ISBN 9780571225163)
Prufrock and Other
Observations
Poems (1920)*
The Waste Land
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
How It Is
Company
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Henry Green
Geoffrey Hill
H. Lawrence
Ezra Pound
Stevie Smith
Muriel Spark
Derek Walcott
W. B. Yeats
Secondary Texts
Bradbury, Malcolm &
McFarlane, James (eds)
Butler, Christopher
Carey, John
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the
Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939
(London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992)
Gay, Peter
Herbert, W. N. &
Hollis, Matthew
Josipovici, Gabriel
Kenner, Hugh
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki
Goldman, Jane A. &
Taxidou, Olga (eds)
Trotter, David
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