Book Order Info for Fall 2023

Below is some info regarding book orders for fall 2023 courses. This will be updated throughout August as professors finalize their courses. Note that in many cases professors will supplement these materials with links, PDFs, and other materials provided in Blackboard during the semester. So what you’re seeing here might not spell all of what you’ll be studying in any particular class. The college’s online bookstore is here. Books do not need to be purchased from the college store. The MA program recommends supporting your local bookseller, if one still exists; or using Powells.com for new books, or Alibris.com for used books. Books from the library are perfectly fine as well, though part of your graduate studies should involve marking up your books with notes and thoughts and building a personal library.

ENGL 500 – Theory & Practice of Lit Criticism (Dr. David Kilpatrick)

• Leitch, Vincent B., et al, eds.  The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  3rd ed. Norton, 2018. ISBN: 9780393602951.

ENGL 507 – Narrative Strategies in the Novel (Dr. David Fritz)

• Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller. ISBN 0099430894.
• Diaz, Herman. Trust. ISBN 9780593420317.
• Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. ISBN 1594483299.
• Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night. ISBN 9781400032716.
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude. ISBN 006112009X.
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. ISBN 1784876437.
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. ISBN 9798799065454.
• Wolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. ISBN 0156628708.

ENGL 515 – Latin American Literature (Dr. Celia Reissig-Vasile)

Only one book purchase will be required, the Campobello book listed below. Other works will be assigned, such as Pablo Neruda’s Canto General and the film Strawberry and Chocolate by Tomas Guiterrez Alea, but links or copies of those readings and media will be provided by the professor of the course during the semester.

• Campobello, Nellie. Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands. Translators Doris Meyer and Irene Matthews. University of Texas Press, 1988. ISBN: ‎ 9780274695508.

ENGL 540 – Literature by Women (Dr. Miriam Gogol)

More readings may be listed or shared in Blackboard, but as of now the following books are required:

• Oates,  Joyce Carol. Beasts. Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0786711035.
• Fern, Fanny. Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time. Penguin Classics, ISBN 0140189521.
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Vintage International, ISBN 9781400033416.

ENGL 545 – Literature of the Left Bank, Paris (Dr. Christopher Loots)

Much will be provided in Blackboard in the form of PDFs (e.g. stories by Edith Wharton, selections from Joyce’s Ulysses, poetry by H.D., fiction by Zelda Fitzgerald, essays and poems by Richard Wright, etc.). But students should secure a copy of the follow required readings (any edition will do, it does not have to be the specific edition assigned here):

• Baldwin, James. Giovanni’s Room. Vintage, 2013. ISBN: 9780345806567
• Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank Paris: 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780292790407. (This is out of print but there are dozens of used copies for sale on Alibris.com for cheap.)
• Breton, Andre. Nadja. Grove Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780802150264
• Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast – Restored Edition. Scribner, 2010. ISBN: 9781439182710. (If you have the original edition, that works fine too, and that’s actually the one I usually work from, though the two editions are significantly different.)
• Loy, Mina. The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. ISBN: 9780374525071
• Stein, Gertrude. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724643. (We’ll be studying The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas.)

Recommended additional materials for those who want to go even deeper into the lit and culture of this era, or who want to own copies of works from which I’ll be providing PDF exerpts:

• Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Beacon, 2012. ISBN: 9780807006238. (We won’t be studying this directly but it’s relevant to our units on Baldwin and Wright.)
• Cunard, Nancy. The Poems of Nancy Cunard. Bodleian Library, 2005. ISBN: 9781842331071. (I will provide PDFs of what poetry in this we’ll be studying, but you might want to own the book.)
• H.D. Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall; Tribute to the Angels; The Flowering of the Rod. New Directions, 1988. ISBN: 9780811213998. (I will provide PDFs of what poetry in this we’ll be studying, but you might want to own the book.)
• Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Scribner, 2014. ISBN: 9781476764528. (We won’t be studying this directly but it’s highly relevant to our unit on Hemingway.)
• Fitzgerald, F Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribner, 1995. ISBN 9780684801544. (We won’t be studying this directly but it’s relevant to our unit on Zelda and will loom large in the unit lecture.)
• Fitzgerald, Zelda. The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald. University of Alabama Press, 1997. (I will be providing a PDF of the Zelda work we’re studying, but if you’re interested in her you should own this.)
• Wright, Richard. Native Son. Perennial Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9780060837563. (We won’t be studying this directly but it’s relevant to our unit on Wright.)

ENGL 560 – African & Caribbean Literature (Dr. Donald Morales)

Partial book info is below; the professor is still building the reading list but so far this is for certain:

• Adichie, Chimamanda. Purple Hibiscus. Algonquin Books, reprint edition, 2012. ISBN 9781616202415.
• Coetzee. J.M. Disgrace. Viking, 1999. ISBN ‎ 978-0670887316. [South Africa]
• Danticat, Edwidge. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series). Vintage, 2011. Appears to be out of print but new or used copies are widely available online, and also it is available in some digital formats, e.g.. Apple Books, Kindle.
• Danticat, Edwidge. Dew Breaker. Vintage, 2005. ISBN  978-1400034291. [Haiti]
• Mafouz, Naguib. Midaq Alley. Anchor, Reprint edition, 1992. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0385264761. [Egypt]