Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Six Weeks Reading

Apart from a Language Symposium (11-12 May, HUMlab), a Workshop on
Roma Self-Writing (May 20 ) 3 seminars, 2 concerts and a summer school (June 4-12)I also have to have this lot to read by the end of May:

Postmodernism/Postcolonialism:

Novels:
E.M. Forster A Passage to India
James Joyce Ulysses (Episodes 1-3 + 18)
Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall
Graham Greene The Power and the Glory
William Golding The Lord of the Flies
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
V. S. Naipaul The Enigma of Arrival
Julian Barnes Faubert's Parrot
Nadine Gordimer July's People
J. M. Coetzee Foe
Nurraddin Farah Maps
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
Ama Ata Aidoo Changes:A Love Story

Poetry;
Wilfred Owen Dulce Et decorum Est
William Butler Yeats Easter 1916, The Second Coming
D.H. Lawrence The Snake
T.S. Eliot The Lovesong of Alfred J Prufrock, The Waste Land, Four Quarters
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
Phillip Larkin Church Going
Ted Hughes Pike
Derek Walcott A Far Cry from Africa
Seamus Heaney Digging, Punishment, Station Island

Prose and Criticism:
Virginia Woolf Modern Fiction
D.H. Lawrence Why the Novel Matters
T.S. Eliot Tradition and Individual Talent

Drama:
J. M Synge The Playboy of the Western World
Sean O?Casey Juno and the Peacock
George Osborne Look Back in Anger
Arnold Weaker Roots
Samuel Becket Happy Days
Arnold Wesker Roots
Harold Pinter The Dumb Waiter
Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Critical Studies:
Steven Connor Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary
Patricia Waugh Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

What can one say....no sleep for me!

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