Bücher, die ich im Grundstudium gelesen haben sollte: Danke, Anglistikstudium!
It is that time of the year again when I start tidying up my study to prove myself I am not a rag and bone man keeping everything that should have been thrown away long ago. But then you tend to find things that do lead you to procrastination. Today’s example: the reading list I received as an undergraduate student when I started studying in 1993. All titles mentioned below were supposed to be read in only two years time. A who’s who of literary history. What do you think – did you have a similar list at your university? I’d be glad to read your comments on this. P.S.: The list is alphabetical – by eras.
Reading list for undergraduates
Prose
Chaucer. “The Pardoner’s Tale.”
Defoe. Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe
Fielding. Joseph Andrews
Austen. Emma; Pride and Prejudice
E. Bronte. Wuthering Heights
Ch. Bronte. Jane Eyre
Crane. The Red Badge of Courage
Dickens. Oliver Twist; Great Expectations
G. Eliot. The Mill on the Floss; Adam Bede
Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles; The Return of the Native
Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter
James. The Portrait of a Lady
Melville. Moby Dick
Twain. Huckleberry Finn.
Anderson. Winesburg, Ohio
Atwood. Surfacing
Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot; Staring at the Sun
Bellow. Herzog
Brookner. Hotel du Lac; Family and Friends
Conrad. Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim
Drabble. The Middle Ground
Doctorow. Ragtime; Billy Bathgate
Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury; Light in August
Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
Forster. Howards End; A Passage to India
Fowles. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Hemingway. Short Stories
Ishiguro. An Artist of the Floating World; The Remains of the Day
Joyce. Portrait of the Artist; Dubliners
Lawrence. Sons and Lovers
Lessing. Memoirs of a Survivor
Lively. Moon Tiger
McEwan. The Cement Garden; First Love; Last Rites
Mansfield. Bliss and Other Stories; The Garden Party and Other Stories
Morrison. Song of Solomon; Tar Baby
Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49
Roberts. The Visitation
Roth. The Ghost Writer
Salinger. Nine Stories
Silko. Ceremony
Spark. The Comforters; Loitering with Intent
Stein. Three Lives
Swift. Waterland; The Sweet Shop Owner
Toole. The Confederacy of Dunces
Tyler. The Accidental Tourist
Updike. Rabbit at Rest
Walker. The Color Purple
Weldon. Female Friends; Praxis
White. The Solid Mandala
Wilson. Late Call.
Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Dolley (ed.). English Short Stories
Cochrane (ed.). American Short Stories
Bradbury (ed.). Modern British Short Stories
Drama
Everyman
Marlowe. Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare. Richard III; King Lear; A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Congreve. The Way of the World
Jonson. Volpone
Wycherly. The Country Wife
Goldsmith. The Stoops to Conquer
Sheridan. The School for Scandal
Shaw. Major Barbara; St. Joan
Synge. Riders to the Sea; Playboy of the Western World
Wilde. Lady Windermere’s Fan; The Importance of Bein Earnest
Ayckbourn. Absurd person Singular
Bond. Saved
Churchill. Top Girls; Serious Money
Edgar. Maydays
Gray. Quartermain’s Terms
Mamet. Glengary Glen Ross
Mercer. After Haggarty
Miller. Death of a Salesman
Norman. ‘night, Mother
O’Neill. Long Day’s Journey into Night
O’Casey. Juno and the Paycock
Pinter. The Caretaker
Shaffer. Equus; Amadeus
Shepard. True West
Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
T. Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire
Poetry
Shakespeare.
Donne, Milton, Pope.
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron
Shelley, Keats
Browning, Tennyson, Hopkins
Whitman, E. Dickinson, W.C. Williams, E. Pound, W. Stevens
Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Thomas Larkin, Hughes, S. Plath, Heaney, Causeley, Pickard
(and more from New Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Helen Gardner)