Faculty Committee
Faculty Committee: Porter Abbott, Maurizia Boscagli, Enda Duffy, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Rita Raley, Russell Samolsky
Reading List
It is assumed that students taking the first qualifying examination
in the 20th-Century Anglophone field will be familiar not
only with the following primary texts but also with the principal
critical and interpretive issues concerning these texts and
the period at large.
Because of the exponential global increase in Anglophone
literature, particularly in the latter part of the century,
students may limit themselves to three areas in the post -1939
period.
1.0
= equivalent of one full-length novel
L = in UCSB Library
N = in Norton Anthology of English Literature,
seventh edition
1900 to 1939
1.0 One of the following: Rudyard Kipling, Kim
or H.G. Wells, Tono Bungay, or Baron Corvo,
Hadrian the Seventh, or Ford Maddox Ford, The
Good Soldier (all L)
1.5 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and one
of Nostromo, The Secret Agent, or
Under Western Eyes (all L)
1.0 D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
or Women in Love (both L)
0.25 Katherine Mansfield, "Bliss," "The
Daughters of the Late Colonel," “The Stranger”,
This Flower,” “The Fly”, and "The
Garden Party" in Collected Stories (L)
1.0 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own,
"Mr. Bennett and Mr. Brown" (1924 version
in Collected Essays) and one of Mrs. Dalloway,
To The Lighthouse,or The Waves (all
L)
1.5 James Joyce, Ulysses (L)
1.0 E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (L)
1.0 Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (L)
1.0 Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (L)
0.5 First World War poets (N) and Thomas Hardy, "Channel
Firing," “Drummer Hodge,” “The
Man he Killed,” “And There was a Great Calm”
in Complete Poems (L)
0.5 Yeats, selected poems, (N)
1.0 Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"
"The Waste Land," "Four Quartets"
in
Collected Poems: 1909-1962, "Tradition
and the Individual Talent," "Hamlet,"
"Metaphysical Poets" in Essays on Poetry
and Poets (all L)
0.25 W. H. Auden, selected poems (N)
0.5 George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House (L)
0.5 J. M. Synge, Playboy of the Western World
or Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock (both
L)
1.0 One of the following: Evelyn Waugh, A Handful
of Dust, Elizabeth Bowen, The Last
September, Christopher Isherwood, Berlin
Stories, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
(all L)
1939-Present: Choose at least three areas
British
1.0 Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul or
Brighton Rock (both L)
1.0 Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (L)
1.0 Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honorable Defeat
(L)
0.5 Selected poems by Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Thom
Gunn and Ted Hughes (N)
0.5 Selected poems by Stevie Smith (N), Fleur Adcock,
Elizabeth Jennings, Ann Stevenson, and Carol Ann Duffy
in Linda France, ed., Sixty Women Poets (L)
0.5 Harold Pinter, The Caretaker, or Tom Stoppard,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (both
L)
0.5 Caryl Churchill, Top Girls or Sarah Daniels, Ripen
our Darkness (both L)
2.0 Two of the following: Margaret Drabble, The
Realms of Gold, J.G. Ballard, Crash, Pat
Barker, Regeneration, Ian McEwan, Atonement,
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus, Jeanette
Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Alan Hollinghurst,
The Swimming Pool Library, James Kelman, How
Late it Was, How Late (all L)
Irish
1.0 Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds (L)
1.0 Samuel Beckett, Molloy and Endgame (both
L)
1.0 Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
or Lies of Silence (both L)
1.0 Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls or The House
of Splendid Isolation (both L)
1.0 William Trevor, The News from Ireland or Felicia’s
Journey (both L)
0.25 Patrick Kavanagh, candidate’s choice of poems
from Collected or Complete Poems (both L)
0.25 Seamus Heaney, candidate’s choice of poems
from Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
(L)
0.5 Candidate’s choice of Selected poems by Eavan
Boland, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Eileen ni Chuilleanain,
Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon from Peggy O’Brian,
ed., Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry:
1967-2000 and volume 3 of Seamus Deane, ed., The
Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (both L)
0.5 Brian Friel, Translations or Tom Murphy,
The Gigli Concert (both L)
1.5 Two of the following: John McGahern, Amongst
Women, John Banville, The Book of
Evidence, Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clark Ha Ha
Ha, Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on Our Skin,
Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy (all
L)
Caribbean
1.0 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (L)
1.0 George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin
(L)
1.0 V. S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men (L)
0.5 Sam Selvon, Moses Ascending (L)
1.0 Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of my Mother
and A Small Place (L)
1.0 Derek Walcott, Omeros (L)
0.5 Poems by John Agard, Louise Bennett, Kamau Braithwaite,
Dionne Brand, Jean Binta Breeze, Linton Kwesi Johnson,
Mutabaruka, Grace Nichols in Voice Print: An Anthology
of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean
1.5 Two of the following: Earl Lovelace, Wine of
Astonishment, Caryl Phillips, Cambridge,
Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven,
Wilson Harris, Carnival, Garth St. Omer, A
Room on the Hill (all L)
African
0.5 Amos Tutuola, The Palm Wine Drinkard (L)
1.0 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart and "The
African Writer and the English Language" in Hopes
and Impediments: Selected Essays (both L)
0.5 Wole Soyinka, Death and The King's Horseman
(L)
1.0 Ngugi wa Thiongo, Petals of Blood (L)
1.0 Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing (L)
1.0 Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist (L)
1.0 J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (L)
0.5 Candidate’s selection of poems in Adewale
Maja-Pearce, ed., The Heinemann Book of African
Poetry in English (L)
1.5 Two of the following: Bessie Head, A Question
of Power, Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood,
Nuruddin Farah, Maps, Ben Okri, Stars of
the New Curfew, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy:
A Novel in Rotten English, Ama Ata Aidoo, Our
Sister Killjoy (L)
South Asian
0.5 R.K. Narayan, Swami and Friends (L)
0.5 Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day (L)
1.0 Salmon Rushdie, Shame or Midnight’s Children
(both L)
1.0 Nayantara Sahgal, Rich Like Us or Mistry,
Such a Long Journey (L only for Rich Like
Us)
2.0 Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy (L)
1.0 Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
(L)
1.0 Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India
0.5 Mahasweta Devi, Imaginary Maps (L)0.5 Sujata
Bhatt, Brunizem (L)
0.5 Candidate’s selections from Kaiser Haq, ed.,
Contemporary Indian Poetry (L)
1.0 One of the following: Zulficar Ghose, The Incredible
Brazilian, Amitav Ghosh, The Circle of Reason
or The Shadow Lines Hanif Khureshi, The
Buddha of Suburbia, Arundhati Roy, The God
of Small Things (all L)
Canadian
1.0 Robertson Davies, The Fifth Business (L)
1.0 Modichai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman
(L)
1.0 Hugh MacLennan, The Watch that Ends the Night
or Sheila Watson, The Double Hook (L)
1.0 Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (L)
1.0 Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel (L)
1.0 Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women (L)
1.0 Timothy Findley, The Wars or Not Wanted on the
Voyage (both L)
0.25 Selected poems by Earle Birney, Irving Layton,
M. Ondaatje, P.K. Page, Margaret Avison, Al Purdy, Margaret
Atwood in Gary Geddes, ed., 15 Canadian Poets X
3 (L)
0.5 Two of Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations,
George Ryga,The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (all L)
Antipodean (Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
Islands)
1.0 Patrick White, Voss (L)
1.0 Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children
(L)
1.0 Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table (L)
1.0 Witi Tame Ihimaera, Dear Miss Mansfield
(L)
1.0 Colin Johnson, Dr. Wooreddy's Prescription for
Enduring the Ending of the World
1.0 Albert Wendt, Pouliuli (L)
1.0 Patricia Grace, Potiki, Keri Hulme, The
Bone People,or Sally Morgan, My Place
(all L)
1.0 Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish
(L)
0.5 Selected poems by Les Murray, Gwen Harwood, Lionel
Fogarty, John Kinsella,
and A.D. Hope in John Tranter and Philip Mead, eds.,
The Penguin [or Bloodaxe] Book of Modern Australian
Poetry (L)
last revised 2003
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