BA ENGLISH – THIRD YEAR READING LIST

REQUIRED TEXTS

Beowulf. Trans. Norton Anthology. Vol.1.

Some passages from the original will be set for close study: these

will be taken from Beowulf: a student edition, edited by George

Jack. Oxford : Clarendon, 1994.' and photocopies will be made

available in the Students' Union."

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (text to be announced).

Fitt 1 of the poem (the first quarter of it) will also be set for close study.

The Knight’s Tale. Riverside Chaucer  (Or The Knight’s Tale. The Canterbury Tales. Norton.)

Le Morte Darthur, books 7 and 8 (“The Tale of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenivere” and “The Death of Arthur”). Ed.Helen Cooper. Oxford Classics. pp. 403-527.

Maria Edgeworth.                     Castle Rackrent (1800) (any edition)

Brian Friel.                               Translations (1990) (any edition)

James Joyce.                            Ulysses (1922): Episode 12, “Cyclops”

W.B. Yeats.                             Selected Poetry, ed. Timothy Webb (Penguin 1991) 

W.B. Yeats.                             a selection of essays (photocopies available from the Students’ Union).

William Godwin                        Caleb Williams (OUP, 1998)

Charles Dickens                       Bleak House (OUP, 1998)

Peter Ackroyd                          The House of Doctor Dee (Penguin, 1994)

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Penguin)

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (Faber)

James Joyce, Ulysses (Penguin)

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Penguin)

Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts (Penguin)

Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (Penguin)

Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night (Nick Hern)

Angela Carter, Wise Children (Vintage)

Jeannette Winterson, The Passion (Vintage)

The Dream of the Rood the text used is that in Mitchell and Robinson, A Guide to Old English, 6th edn. and that photocopies are available in the students' union.

(Translations can be found in the Norton Anthology. Vol.1, and elsewhere).

Piers Plowman: Passus 1-7. The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Complete Edition of the B-Text. Ed.A.V.C. Schmidt. London: Everyman: 1974. (frequent reprints)

The Book of the Duchess. Riverside Chaucer

(Or Chaucer’s Dream-Poetry. Ed. Helen Phillips and Nick Havely. London: Longman, 1997).

The Parliament of Fowls. Riverside Chaucer.

William Shakespeare.                Richard II. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.

John Milton.                              Paradise Lost. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000.

Walt Whitman.                          Leaves of Grass. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

W.B. Yeats.                             On Baile’s Strand. Students’ Union/Photocopy 

Don Delillo.                               White Noise. London: Picador, 1986.

Alice Walker.                            The Color Purple. London: Women’s Press, 1983. 
 

Bertolt Brecht.              Mother Courage and Her Children (Methuen)

Caryl Churchill.             Cloud Nine (Nick Hern)

Henrik Ibsen.                A Doll’s House (Methuen)

Sarah Kane.                 Blasted (Methuen)

David Mamet.             Oleanna (Methuen)

Arthur Miller.                The Crucible (Penguin)

Harold Pinter.               The Homecoming (Faber)

G.B. Shaw.                  Major Barbara (Penguin)

Tennessee Williams.      A Streetcar Named Desire (Penguin)

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SCHOOL OF ENGLISH 3RD YEAR COURSE BOOKLET 2004-2005