Stage Two Reading Lists

MODULE CODE: ENG20250

MODULE TITLE: Twentieth Century Drama

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Cormac O'Brien

CONTACT DETAILS: cormac.obrien@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG20250

Primary Text (subject to change):

• Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
• Sean O’Casey:The Plough and the Stars
• Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
• Caryl Churchill: Cloud Nine
• Arthur Miller: The Crucible
• David Henry Hwang: M. Butterfly
• Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
• Tony Kushner: Angels in America: Part 1, Millennium Approaches
• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
• Harold Pinter: The Homecoming
• Sarah Kane: Blasted

 
Suggested Further Reading:

Obtaining Copies:

1] Purchasing the Plays: Copies of each individual play are available for purchase in the UCD campus bookshop. If you choose to buy copies of your plays but also want to be budget-conscious, we suggest pairing or grouping with fellow students on the module and buying copies between the pair or group. This will reduce the cost considerably. Alternatively, check online book sellers such as Amazon or Abe Books for cheap used copies which are usually in very good condition (because they tend to be ex-library stock).

2] Library Options: Copies of each individual play are available in the UCD library. As well as searching the catalogue for copies of the individual play in a stand-alone publication, check also for copies of the plays in anthologies or collections of each playwright’s work. If you’re experiencing difficulties in getting a copy from the UCD library, very often your local public library will carry copies of many of these plays. Free online libraries such as Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/) usually carry freely accessible copies of the earlier plays.

3] Anthologies: There are two anthologies that we recommend: The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama (editions 4-7) and The Bedford Introduction to Drama (editions 4-7). Bothare very useful study aids; not only do they carry a large number of the plays on the module, but also they have extremely helpful critical analyses, essays, and commentaries. Over the last few years, however, legal copyright issues have arisen with the majority of decent anthologies; which is to say, the anthologies worth working from are only officially available for bulk university purchase in the USA. This means that while we can recommend these two anthologies, we are unable to buy them into the UCD bookshop for you to purchase. The latest editions of the two anthologies that we recommend are very expensive if you purchase them new. However, older editions are available for purchase at very reasonable pricesfrom Amazon ‘used books’ and from Abe Books.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG20290

MODULE TITLE: The English Novel

YEAR: 2018-19

SEMESTER: 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Ailise Bulfin

CONTACT DETAILS: (opens in a new window)ailise.bulfin@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here:
http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG20290

Primary Text (subject to change):

• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719
• Henry Fielding, 'Shamela', 1741
• Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
• Charlotte Brontë, Villette, 1853
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four, 1890
• Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, 1922
• Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, 2017

Suggested Further Reading:

• Dorothy J. Hale, ed. The Novel: An Anthology of Criticisim and Theory 1900-2000. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
• Terry Eagleton, The English Novel: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

Module Code: ENG20400 Critical Theory

Year: 2017-18

Module Coordinator: Dr Anne Mulhall ((opens in a new window)anne.mulhall@ucd.ie)

Lecturers: Dr Sharae Deckard & Dr Anne Mulhall 

Texts:

Required weekly primary readings are available as PDFs via Blackboard. You can access the readings in the weekly folders in the Learning Materials section. 

The required readings will also be available as a ‘course reader’ downloadable from Blackboard. The course reader will also be available in hard copy at a cost of 10 euro (to cover printing costs) from the School Office, J206, from 2-3pm on Tuesdays ONLY.

Also Required:

David Macey, The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2001.

Highly recommended:

Nicolas Royle and Andrew Bennett. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory. 5^thedition. London & New York: Routledge, 2015.

Dino Franco Felluga, Critical Theory: The Key Concepts. London & New York: Routledge, 2015. 

MODULE CODE: ENG20430

MODULE TITLE: Modern American Literature

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 2

MODULE COORDINATORS: Dr Clare Hayes-Brady and Dr Maria Stuart

CONTACT DETAILS:

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG20430

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume Two: Modernisms 1900-1950, eds. Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Ronan and Thomas Travisano (Rutgers University Press, 2005). Poets to be studied include T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes and Lorine Niedecker.
• Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918). Any edition.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance (Penguin, 1934 edition ONLY; please note there are differences between editions of this text and only the 1934 text is acceptable for this course)
• Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Any edition. 
• Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (1925). Any edition.

Suggested Further Reading:

Information regarding additional reading will be posted on Blackboard during the course.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG20440

MODULE TITLE: Irish Literature in English

YEAR: 2017-18

SEMESTER: 1

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Lucy Collins

CONTACT DETAILS: lucy.collins@ucd.ie

LECTURERS ON THIS MODULE: Dr Catriona Clutterbuck; Dr Lucy Collins; Dr Luca Crispi; Dr P. J. Mathews

For an overview of this module click here: (opens in a new window)http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG20440

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 
• W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems, ed. Timothy Webb. London: Penguin Books, 2000.
• James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Seamus Heaney, New Selected Poems 1966-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1990.
• Marina Carr, Plays 1. London: Faber and Faber, 2014.

Suggested Further Reading:

• Cleary, Joe and Claire Connolly, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Kelleher, Margaret and Philip O’Leary, eds, The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Kiberd, Declan, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation. London: Vintage, 1996.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

Module Code: ENG 20450 Renaissance Literature

Year: 2018-2019

Semester: 1

Module Coordinator: Dr Miranda Fay Thomas

Lecturers on this module (where applicable): Dr Miranda Fay Thomas, Dr Naomi McAreavey, TBC

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/eng20450

Primary Texts (subject to change):

Texts in the Norton Anthology of English Literature (10th edition): The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century:

Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella (a selection) and The Defense of Poesy

Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Jonson’s Volpone

Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi

Milton’s Paradise Lost (Book 9)

Additional texts:

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare’s Henry V

Shakespeare’s King Lear

Suggested Further Reading:

Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG20460

MODULE TITLE: From Victorian to Modern Literature

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER:

MODULE COORDINATOR: Professor Nicholas Daly

CONTACT DETAILS: nicholas.daly@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG20460

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, Any edition with good footnotes (e.g. Oxford, Norton).  (Campus Bookshop)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Any edition with good footnotes (e.g. Oxford, Norton).  (Campus Bookshop)
• Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Any edition with good footnotes (e.g. Oxford, Norton).  (Campus Bookshop)
• Shorter fiction, non-fiction prose, drama, and poetry is available in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 2, or online (see Blackboard, Module Information)

Suggested Further Reading:

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG20490 

MODULE TITLE: Romanticism

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Michelle O'Connell

CONTACT DETAILS: michelle.oconnell@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG20490

Primary Text (subject to change):

Unless otherwise indicated, texts for poetry and (non-fiction) prose will be taken from Duncan Wu (ed) Romanticism: An Anthology (4th edition) Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Novels

• Ann Radcliffe, The Italian (Oxford World’s Classics) [available from the Campus Bookshop]
• Mary Shelley, The Last Man (Oxford World’s Classics) [available from the Campus Bookshop]

Poems

• Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  • ‘A Summer Evening’s Meditation’
  • ‘An Epistle to William Wilberforce’
• William Blake
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience (selection in Wu)
• Lord Byron
  • ‘Darkness’
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Cantos 3 & 4
• John Clare
  • ‘January’
  • ‘June’
  • ‘I am’
  • ‘The Flitting’
• John Keats
  • ‘Ode to Psyche’
  • ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
  • ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
  • ‘Ode on Melancholy’
  • ‘Ode on Indolence’ ‘To Autumn’
• Hannah More
  • ‘Slavery: A Poem’
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • ‘Ode to the West Wind’
  • ‘Ozymandias’
  • ‘England in 1819’
  • ‘The Mask of Anarchy’
• Charlotte Smith
  • All of the sonnets included in Elegiac Sonnets (see Wu)
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Lyrical Ballads (selection in Wu)
• Ann Yearsley
  • ‘A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade.’

Prose

• Edmund Burke
  • (A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of) The Sublime and the Beautiful (extracts in Wu)
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France (extracts in Wu)
• Thomas Paine
  • The Rights of Man (selections in Wu)
• Richard Price
  • A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (selections in Wu)
• Ann Radcliffe
  • ‘On the Supernatural in Poetry’ http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/radcliffe_sup.pdf
• William Wordsworth
  • Preface to Lyrical Ballads (selections in Wu)
• Mary Wollstonecraft
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Men (selections in Wu)
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (selections in Wu)

Suggested Further Reading:

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG20630

MODULE TITLE: Reading Irish Literature

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 2   For Study Abroad, JYA and Erasmus students only

MODULE COORDINATOR: Professor Anne Fogarty

CONTACT DETAILS: (opens in a new window)anne.fogarty@ucd.ie

This module will examine multiple representations of Irish political, national and cultural identity from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period.  It will consider how key myths of national identity were formulated, debated, replicated and ousted by successive generations of Irish writers.  The foundational role played by Augusta Gregory, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and Sean O’Casey in the Irish Literary Revival will be considered and the ambiguous but potent symbolism of their writing for the stage will be investigated.   James Joyce’s Dubliners will be examined both as a counter-blast to the Revival and a searing modernist rendering of Dublin and its inhabitants.  Yeats’s predominance as cultural spokesperson and especially as poet will be reviewed.  His complex reflections on the matter of Ireland in his poetry and his renderings of  the problematic of the modern subject with her uncontainable desires will be scrutinised.  The degree to which modern playwrights, Brian Friel and Marina Carr, deconstruct but also continue the conventions of Irish theatre will in turn be examined.  Contemporary literature will be viewed through the lens of the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Paula Meehan and the global fictions of Colm Tóibín and Anne Enright.  The problematisation of home, the feminine and the local, the unravelling of fixities surrounding gendered and sexual identity, and the prominence of tropes of loss, estrangement and displacement in the poetry and fiction of these writers will be reflected upon.  Postcolonial, cultural materialist and feminist theory will be drawn upon to ground debates and analysis of the texts on this course.  

Primary Texts:

Enright, Anne. The Gathering (Vintage, 2008).

Joyce, James.  Dubliners. Introduction, Terence Brown (1914; London: Penguin, 2000).

Harrington, John P., ed.  Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama (New York: Norton, 2006).  (Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Lady Gregory, Spreading

the News and The Rising of the Moon; J. M. Synge, Riders to the Sea  and Sean O’Casey, Juno and the Paycock).

Heaney, Seamus. New Selected Poems: 1988-2013 (London: Faber and Faber, 2015).

Meehan, Paula.  Mysteries of the Home (Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2013).

Tóibín, Colm.  Brooklyn (2010; London: Penguin, 2015).

Yeats, W. B. Selected Poems.  Ed. Timothy Webb (London: Penguin, 2000).  

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

Module Title: King Lear and the Novel

Module Code: ENG20730

Module Coordinator: Dr Miranda Fay Thomas

Contact Details: miranda.thomas@ucd.ie

Lecturers on this module (where applicable): Dr Miranda Fay Thomas

Year: 2018 - 2019

Semester: 1

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/eng20730

Primary Texts (subject to change):

Shakespeare, King Lear (Arden 3, ed. R. A. Foakes)

Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

Anne Enright, The Green Road

Preti Taneja, We That Are Young

Suggested Further Reading:

Julie Sanders, ‘“Rainy days mean difficult choices”: Jane Smiley’s appropriation of King Lear in A Thousand Acres, in Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-century women novelists and appropriation’ (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001), pp. 191-216.

Elizabeth Rivlin, ‘Adaptation Revoked: Knowledge, Ethics, and Trauma in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres’, in Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (eds. Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 73-88.

Anne Kathrin Marquardt, ‘Unlearning Tradition: William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Jane Smiley’s and Jocelyn Moorhouse’s A Thousand Acres’, in Rewriting Shakespeare’s Plays for and by the Contemporary Stage (eds. Michael Dobson and Estelle Rivier-Arnaud (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017).

Margaret O’Neill, ‘A Bionian Reading of the Mother in Anne Enright’s The Green Road’, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 17:3 (2016), 181-190.

Mary McGlynn, ‘“No difference between the different kinds of yesterday:” The Neoliberal Present in The Green Road, The Devil I Know, and The Lives of Women’, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, 28:1 (2017: Special issue, Recessionary Imaginings: Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing), 34-54.

Preti Taneja, ‘Fiction and the Possibility of the Ethical: Rewriting Shakespeare and the Intertextuality of Gavatri Spivak’, in Rewriting Shakespeare’s Plays for and by the Contemporary Stage (eds. Michael Dobson and Estelle Rivier-Arnaud (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017).

Wider Bibliography

ADAPTATION

Diana E. Henderson, ‘From popular entertainment to literature’, in Shakespeare and Popular Culture (ed. Robert Shaughnessy) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 6-25.

Linda Hutcheon, ‘Beginning to Theorize Adaptation: What? Who? Why? How? Where? When?’ in A Theory of Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2013 [2006]), pp. 1-32.

Margaret Jane Kidnie, ‘Introduction: the problem of adaptation’, in Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 1-10.

Douglas Lanier, "Recent Shakespeare Adaptations and the Mutations of Cultural Capital." Shakespeare Studies 38 (2010): 104-13.

Julie Sanders, ‘“Mere sparks and clandestine glories”: Women writers, Shakespeare and appropriation’, in Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-century women novelists and appropriation (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001), pp. 1-13.

Julie Sanders, ‘Introduction: Going on (and on)’ and ‘What is adaptation?’ in Adaptation and Appropriation (New York: Routledge, 2016 [2006]), pp. 1-17; pp. 21-34.

Fredric Jameson, "Afterword: Adaptation as a Philosophical Problem." In True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity, edited by Colin McCabe, 215-233. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare and Modern Culture. New York: Pantheon, 2008.

THE NOVEL

Walter Allen, ‘Introduction’, in The English Novel: A Short Critical History

Terry Eagleton, ‘What is a Novel?’, in The English Novel: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 1-21.

Ian Watt, ‘Realism and the novel form’ and ‘The reading public and the rise of the novel’, in The Rise of the Novel (London: Penguin, 2015 [1957]), pp. 9-34; pp. 35-59.

OTHER NOVELISATIONS OF KING LEAR
Angela Carter, Wise Children (not entirely about Lear, but definitely contains elements of it and a variety of other Shakespearean inspirations.) (1991).

Christopher Moore, Fool (2009).

Edward St. Aubyn, Dunbar (2017).

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (2014).

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: ENG20640

MODULE TITLE: Ten Poems

YEAR: 2016-17

SEMESTER: 1

MODULE COORDINATOR: Dr Lucy Collins

CONTACT DETAILS: lucy.collins@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/ENG20640

Primary Text (subject to change):

• Michael Schmidt (ed.), The Harvill Book of 20^th-Century Poetry in English. London: Harvill, 2000.

Suggested Further Reading:

• Jon Cook (ed.), Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000. Oxford: WileyBlackwell, 2004.
• Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter? Essays in Poetry and American Culture. St Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1992.
• Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers. London: Faber, 2002.
• Stephen Matterson and Daryl Jones, Studying Poetry. London: Arnold, 2000.
• Neil Roberts, A Companion to 20th Century Poetry. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: FS20100

MODULE TITLE: Hollywood Cinema

YEAR: 2016/17

SEMESTER: 1

MODULE COORDINATOR: Mr. Tony Fitzmaurice

CONTACT DETAILS: tony.fitzmaurice@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/fs20100

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Hill & Church Gibson (eds), American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches, Oxford, 1998
• Jones, Maldwyn A., The Limits of Liberty, Oxford, 1995
• King, Geoff, New Hollywood Cinema, Tauris, 2002
• Maltby, Richard, Hollywood Cinema (2^nd edition), Blackwell, 2003
• Neale, Steve (ed.), The Classical Hollywood Reader, Routledge, 2013
• Neale & Smith (eds), Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, Routledge, 1998
• Ray, Robert R., A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, Princeton, 1985
• Williams & Hammond (eds), Contemporary American Cinema, McGraw-Hill/Open University, 2006
• Wood, Robin,  Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, Columbia, 1986 (2^nd edition 2003)

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.

MODULE CODE: FS20060

MODULE TITLE: Transformations in European Cinema

YEAR: 2016/17

SEMESTER: 2

MODULE COORDINATOR: Mr. Tony Fitzmaurice

CONTACT DETAILS: tony.fitzmaurice@ucd.ie

For an overview of this module click here: http://www.ucd.ie/modules/fs20060

Primary Texts (subject to change):

• Ezra, Elizabeth (ed.), European Cinema, Oxford, 2003 (Course textbook)
• Elsaesser, Thomas, New German Cinema: A History, BFI, 1989
• Judt, Tony, Postwar – A History of Europe Since 1945, Penguin, 2005
• Marcus, Millicent, Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism, Princeton, 1986
• Neupert, Richard, A History of the French New Wave Cinema, Wisconsin, 2002
• Sorlin, Pierre, European Cinemas, European Societies 1939-1990, Routledge, 1991.

Students are advised that information provided here can be subject to change.