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The reading list for the M.A. exam will be reviewed by
the English department every two years, and may change. The following
reading list will be used for exams given through the Spring of 2005. Romance of the Rose,
Dahlberg translation Book of Margery Kempe Piers Plowman (B-text) Geoffrey Chaucer, House of
Fame Parliament of
Fowls Troilus &
Criseyde General
Prologue Knight’s Tale Miller’s Tale Wife of Bath’s
Tale William Shakespeare,
Hamlet Christopher Marlowe,
Edward II Elizabeth Cary, Tragedy of
Mariam Aphra Behn, Oroonoko George Eliot, Middlemarch William Wordsworth,
Lyrical Ballads, 2nd ed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In
Memoriam Christina Rossetti, “The
Goblin Market” Oscar Wilde, The
Importance of Being Earnest Joseph Conrad, Heart of
Darkness James Joyce, Ulysses Virginia Woolf, To the
Lighthouse William Butler Yeats, “The
Lake Isle of Innisfree” “September 1913” “The Wild Swans
at Coole” “Easter 1916” “The Second
Coming” “Sailing to
Byzantium” “Leda and the
Swan” “Among School
Children” “Byzantium” “Crazy Jane Talks
with the Bishop” “Circus Animals’
Desertion” Angela Carter, Nights at
the Circus Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
Scarlet Letter Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” Harriet Jacobs, Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl Mark Twain, Huckleberry
Finn Emily Dickinson, “I taste
liquor never brewed—” “Wild Nights—Wild
Nights!” “There is a
certain Slant of light” “I felt a
Funeral, in my Brain” “A Bird came down
the Walk—“ “After great
pain, a formal feeling comes—” “Much Madness is
Divinest Sense—” “I heard a Fly
buzz—when I died—” “I like to see it
lap the Miles—” “The Brain—is
wider than the Sky—” “I dwell in
Possibility—” “Because I could
not stop for Death—” “My Life had
stood—a Loaded Gun—” “A narrow Fellow
in the Grass” “Tell all the
Truth but tell it slant” “My life closed
twice before its close—” Edith Wharton, The House
of Mirth F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby William Faulkner, Light in
August Toni Morrison, Song of
Solomon T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland Langston Hughes, “The Negro
Speaks of Rivers” “The Weary Blues” “Cross” “Lament over
Love” “Po’ Boy Blues” “Song for a Dark
Girl” “Drum” “The Bitter
River” “Morning After” “Madam and Her
Madam” “Silhouette” “Theme for
English B” “Harlem” Elizabeth Bishop, “The Map” “The Man-Moth” “The Fish” “Roosters” “At the
Fishhouses” “The Armadillo” “In the Waiting
Room” “The End of
March” “One Art” “North Haven” Audre Lorde, “Coal” “Now that I am
Forever with Child” “Love Poem” “From the House
of Yemanjá” “Hanging Fire” “A Question of
Climate” Marge Piercy, “The Cyclist” “Learning
Experience” “The Cast Off” “Moonburn” Packet of 4-5
critical/theoretical readings for Medieval/Renaissance W.K. Wimsatt, The Verbal
Icon Fredric Jameson, The
Political Unconscious Judith Butler, Bodies that
Matter
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