04/01/20 ENGL11608: Book Group: Reading Texts Grps Full Year | Nottingham Trent University ENGL11608: Book Group: Reading Texts Grps Full Year View Online 263 items Faces of War: Identity and Conflict (20 items) Primary Texts (5 items) Catch 22 - Heller, Joseph, 1994 Book | Core Text In country - Mason, Bobbie Ann, 1987 Book | Core Text Dear Mr. President: precision-guided propaganda for the human animals - Hudson, Gabe, 2003, c2002 Book | Core Text Extremely loud & incredibly close - Foer, Jonathan Safran, 2006 Book | Core Text My war: killing time in Iraq - Buzzell, Colby, 2006, c2005 Book | Core Text Secondary Texts (15 items) Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (3 items) 'You must remember this': trauma and memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five - Alberto Cacicedo, 2005 Article | Core Text Joseph Heller's combat experiences in Catch 22 - Michael C. Scoggins, 2003 Article | Core Text Renegades in the literature of war: from Homer to Heller - Peter Scheckner, 2009 Article | Core Text Bobbie Ann Mason - In Country (3 items) Gender issues in Bobbie Ann Mason's 'In Country’ - Ellen A. Blais, 1991 Article | Core Text 1/22
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Faces of War: Identity and Conflict (20 items)
Primary Texts (5 items)
Catch 22 - Heller, Joseph, 1994Book | Core Text
In country - Mason, Bobbie Ann, 1987Book | Core Text
Dear Mr. President: precision-guided propaganda for the human animals - Hudson, Gabe,2003, c2002
Book | Core Text
Extremely loud & incredibly close - Foer, Jonathan Safran, 2006Book | Core Text
My war: killing time in Iraq - Buzzell, Colby, 2006, c2005Book | Core Text
Secondary Texts (15 items)
Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (3 items)
'You must remember this': trauma and memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five -Alberto Cacicedo, 2005
Article | Core Text
Joseph Heller's combat experiences in Catch 22 - Michael C. Scoggins, 2003Article | Core Text
Renegades in the literature of war: from Homer to Heller - Peter Scheckner, 2009Article | Core Text
Bobbie Ann Mason - In Country (3 items)
Gender issues in Bobbie Ann Mason's 'In Country’ - Ellen A. Blais, 1991Article | Core Text
A new home, who'll follow? or, Glimpses of Western life - Kirkland, Caroline M., Zagarell,Sandra A., c1990
Book | Core Text | The book is expensive (£20), but its editorial apparatus is reallyuseful. If students wish to read the original edition online for free, they should use the copyavailable from LION.
The Norton anthology of American literature: Volume B: 1820-1865 - Baym, Nina,Reidhead, Julia, Levine, Robert S., Krupat, Arnold, 2007
Book | Core Text | Read these four extracts: Bryant, William Cullen, ‘The Prairies,’ pp.1048-50; O’Sullivan, John Louis, from ‘Annexation,’ pp. 2182-83; Parkman Jr., Francis, from'The California and Oregon Trail', pp. 2183-2186;Clappe, Louise Amelia Smith, from 'California, in 1851 and 1852, Residence in the Mines',pp. 2186-89.
Life in prairie land - Eliza Farnham, 1846Webpage | Core Text | Available electronically at Knox College Internet Archive (click on
the link provided). Read the preface and chapters 5 and 8.
Editors’ Introduction - Elizabeth Jameson, Susan ArmitageChapter | Core Text
Manifest domesticity - Amy Kaplan, 1998Article | Core Text
Intimate practices: literacy and cultural work in U.S. women's clubs, 1880-1920 - AnneRuggles Gere, 1997
Book | Recommended Reading
Unit 3: ‘Drum-Taps’ (6 items)
Walt Whitman: selected poems 1855-1892 - Whitman, Walt, Schmidgall, Gary, 2001Book | Core Text
Walt Whitman: selected poems 1855-1892 - Whitman, Walt, Schmidgall, Gary, 2001Book | Core Text | Read the contemporary reviews of 'Drum-Taps' in this text.
Contemporary Reviews of Whitman's Works - The Walt Whitman ArchiveWebpage | Core Text | Read contemporary reviews of 'Drum-Taps' in the Walt Whitman
Archive.
Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals - MartinG. Murray
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Free Verse - Jeffrey WainrightChapter | Core Text
Wounded Bodies in Whitman's War Writings - Stephanie BrownerWebpage | Core Text
Unit 4: Jasmine (11 items)
Jasmine - Mukherjee, Bharati, 1990Book | Core Text
Immigrant Writing: Give Us Your Maximalists! - Bharati Mukherjee, 28 August 1988Article | Core Text | Extract available from tutor.
Two Ways to Belong in America - Bharati Mukherjee, 22 September 1996Article | Core Text | Extract to be distributed by tutor.
American Dreamer - January/ February 1997Webpage | Core Text
Canada - Blaise Clark, Mukherjee BharatiChapter | Core Text | Read ‘The Facts’ and Chapter 4.
The Norton anthology of American literature: Volume E: Literature since 1945 - Baym,Nina, Reidhead, Julia, Klinkowitz, Jerome, Wallace, Patricia B., 2007
Book | Core Text | Read the following extracts: Tan, Amy, ‘Two Kinds’, from The JoyLuck Club, pp. 3154-3163; Lahiri, Jhumpa, ‘Sexy’, pp. 3248-64.
The joy luck clubBook | Core Text
'Who speaks for us?' Bharati Mukherjee's fiction and the politics of immigration - HelenaGrice, 2003
Article | Core Text
Fictions of America - Newman, Judie, 2007Book | Recommended Reading
The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts - Kingston, Maxine Hong, 1981Book | Recommended Reading
China men - Hong Kingston, Maxine, Literacy Volunteers of New York City, 1990Book | Recommended Reading
Unit 5: Reading Lolita in Tehran (8 items)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books - Nafisi, Azar, 2008Book | Core Text
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Through the Veil - Paul Allen, 13 September 2003Article | Core Text
Book Group in Chadors - Mona Simpson, 27 March 2003Article | Core Text
'Bad' books hidden under the veil of revolution - Heather Hewett, 27 March 2003Article | Core Text
Comment and response:a comment on “Pleasurable pedagogies: reading Lolita in Tehranand the rhetoric of empathy - Richard S. Albright, Theresa A. Kulbaga, 2009
Article | Core Text
Reading Lolita in times of war: women’s book clubs and the politics of reception -Catherine Burwell, 2007
Article | Core Text
Transnational America - Grewal, Inderpal, 2009Book | Recommended Reading
Jasmine and stars: reading more than Lolita in Tehran - Keshavarz, Fatemeh, c2007Book | Recommended Reading
Other Americas (46 items)
Primary Texts (5 items)
The grapes of wrath - Steinbeck, John, 2000Book | Core Text
Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place - Williams, Terry Tempest, 1992Book | Core Text
Bloodchild and other stories - Butler, Octavia E., 1996Book | Core Text
The crying of lot 49 - Pynchon, Thomas, 1996, c1965Book | Core Text
Underworld - DeLillo, Don, 1999Book | Core Text
Secondary Material (41 items)The list below is only a starting point for your research. You’ll need to track down criticalmaterial that it doesn’t include, and also be imaginative in looking beyond works directlyabout these writers. For instance, you might find that critical work dealing withnaturalism, feminism, ecocriticism, African American writing, science fiction andpostmodernism has a bearing on our understanding of these texts.
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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (11 items)
Social realism in the novels of John Steinbeck - Chadha, Rajni, 1990Book | Recommended Reading
Steinbeck: a collection of critical essays - Davis, Robert Murray, 1972Book | Recommended Reading
Understanding The grapes of wrath: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historicaldocuments - Johnson, Claudia D., 1999
Book | Recommended Reading
John Steinbeck: the contemporary reviews - McElrath, Joseph R., Crisler, Jesse S.,Shillinglaw, Susan, 2009
Book | Recommended Reading
John Steinbeck: a biography - Parini, Jay, 1994Book | Recommended Reading
The grapes of wrath - Steinbeck, John, 2000Book | Core Text
The log from the Sea of Cortez: the narrative portion of the book, Sea of Cortez (1941), byJohn Steinbeck and E.F. Ricketts - Steinbeck, John, Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 2000
Book | Recommended Reading
Readings on John Steinbeck - Swisher, Clarice, 1996Book | Recommended Reading
Seven novelists in the American naturalist tradition: an introduction - Walcutt, CharlesChild, 1974
Book | Recommended Reading
New essays on The Grapes of Wrath - Wyatt, David, 1990Book | Recommended Reading
The harvest gypsies: on the road to the Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck, CharlesWollenberg, 2002
Book | Recommended Reading
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family andPlace (5 items)
A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams - Williams, TerryTempest, Austin, Michael, c2006
Book | Recommended Reading
Toxic discourse - Lawrence Buell, 1998Article | Recommended Reading
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Surveying the literary landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams: new critical essays -Chandler, Katherine R., Goldthwaite, Melissa A., c2003
Book | Recommended Reading
The land's wild music: encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry TempestWilliams, & James Galvin - Mark Tredinnick, c2005
Book | Recommended Reading
Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place - Williams, Terry Tempest, 1992Book | Core Text
Octavia Butler, ‘Bloodchild’ and Other Stories (8 items)
Bloodchild and other stories - Butler, Octavia E., 1996Book | Core Text
"Radio imagination": Octavia Butler on the poetics of narrative embodiment - OctaviaButler, Marilyn Mehaffy, AnaLouise Keating, 2001
Article | Recommended Reading
Tiptree and Haraway: the reinvention of nature - Judith Genova, 1994Article | Recommended Reading
Octavia Butler and Virginia Hamilton: black women writers and science fiction - GregoryJerome Hampton, Wanda M. Brooks, 2003
Article | Recommended Reading
A Cyborg manifesto: science, technology and socialist - feminism in the late twentiethcentury - Haraway, Donna J.
Chapter | Recommended Reading | The photocopy of this chapter is available at theShort Loan Collection desk.
"Would you really rather die than bear my young?": The construction of gender, race, andspecies in Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" - Elyce Rae Helford, 1994
Article | Recommended Reading
Cyborgs at large: interview with Donna Haraway - Constance Penley, Andrew Ross, DonnaHaraway, 1990
Article | Recommended Reading
Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism - Wolmark, Jenny, 1993Book | Recommended Reading
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (7 items)
The Cambridge companion to Thomas Pynchon - Dalsgaard, Inger H., Herman, Luc,McHale, Brian, 2011
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contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives - James,Henry, Beidler, Peter G., c1995
Book | Recommended Reading
Henry James and the Ghostly - T.J. LustigChapter | Recommended Reading
Governess as ghostwriter: unauthorized authority and uncanny authorship in HenryJames's "The turn of the screw" - Kiyoon Jang, 2007
Article | Recommended Reading
The “Quasi-Turn-of-Screw-Effect”: How to Raise a Ghost with Words - J. Hillis Miller, 2003Article | Recommended Reading
New essays on Daisy Miller and The turn of the screw - Pollak, Vivian R., 1993Book | Recommended Reading
UNIT TWO: Elizabeth Bowen- Selected Stories (10 items)
Introduction - Elizabeth BowenChapter | Core Text | This will be provided by the tutor in class
Shadowing Elizabeth Bowen - Maud EllmanChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
it is only available to members of ENGL11608. Click on the link provided; please make surethat you are logged into NOW before you try to access it.
The Uncanny - Sigmund FreudChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
it is only available to members of ENGL11608. Click on the link provided; please make surethat you are logged into NOW before you try to access it.
Introduction - Allan HepburnChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
it is only available to members of ENGL11608. Click on the link provided; please make surethat you are logged into NOW before you try to access it.
The Sandman - E.T.A. HoffmannChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
it is only available to members of ENGL11608. Click on the link provided; please make surethat you are logged into NOW before you try to access it.
Uncanny stories: the ghost story as female gothic - Diana Wallace, 2004Article | Core Text | This is an electronic article is available on LION; click on the 'Find it
at NTU' button and follow the links to access it.
Elizabeth Bowen and the dissolution of the novel: still lives - Bennett, Andrew, Royle,Nicholas, Wordsworth, Ann, 1995
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Elizabeth Bowen: the enforced return - Corcoran, Neil, 2004Book | Recommended Reading
Elizabeth Bowen: the shadow across the page - Ellmann, Maud, c2003Book | Recommended Reading
Hungry Ghosts and Foreign Bodies’ - David PunterChapter | Recommended Reading
UNIT THREE: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (8 items)
Extracts from 'Contemporary Reception'Chapter | Core Text | Copies of this will be provided by the tutor in class
The Glass Essay - Alice OswaldChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
it is only available to members of ENGL11608. Click on the link provided; please make surethat you are logged into NOW before you try to access it.
Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the "Uncanny" - J. Hillis MillerChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
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A Critical History - Linda H. PetersonChapter | Core Text
Wuthering Heights: at the threshold of interpretation - Carol Jacobs, 1979Article | Recommended Reading
Wuthering Heights: contemporary critical essays - Stoneman, Patsy, 1993Book | Recommended Reading | Read the following chapters: John T. Matthews,
‘Framing in Wuthering Heights’, pp.54-73; Lyn Pykett, ‘Gender and Genre in WutheringHeights’, pp.86-99.
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The Emily Dickinson Wars - Betsy ErkkilaChapter | Core Text | This chapter is available in an eBook. Click on the link provided to
access it.
"Homeless at Home": The Politics and Poetics of Domestic Space - Domhall MitchellChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
it is only available to members of ENGL11608. Click on the link provided to access it[Remember to make sure that you are logged into NOW].
Dickinson's Letters - Agnieszka SalskaChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
it is only available to members of ENGL11608. To access it click on the link provided and make sure that you are logged into NOW.
Dickinson and Patriarchal Meter: A Theory of Metrical Code - Annie FinchChapter | Recommended Reading
Women writers and poetic identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and EmilyDickinson - Homans, Margaret, c1980
Book | Recommended Reading
The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickinson - Martin, Wendy, MyiLibrary, 2002Book | Recommended Reading
Domesticating Delphi: Emily Dickinson and the electro-magnetic telegraph - Jerusha HullMcCormack, 2003
Article | Recommended Reading
A companion to Emily Dickinson - Smith, Martha Nell, Loeffelholz, Mary, MyiLibrary, c2008Book | Recommended Reading
UNIT FIVE: David Mitchell- Ghostwritten (8 items)
Speculative Fiction as Postcolonial Critique in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas - NicholasDunlop
Chapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:it is only available to members of ENGL11608. To access it click on the link provided andmake sure that you are logged into NOW.
The Boomerang Effect - J. Hillis MillerChapter | Core Text | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a CLA Licence:
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Interview with Adam Begley, The Art of Fiction, No.204 - David Mitchell, 2010Article | Core Text
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Fictions of the global - Rita Barnard, 2009Article | Recommended Reading
Chaotic Narrative: Complexity, Causality, Time, and Autopoiesis in David Mitchell'sGhostwritten - Sarah Dillon
Article | Recommended Reading
David Mitchell: critical essays - Dillon, Sarah, 2011Book | Recommended Reading | Read the following chapters: Sarah Dillon, ‘Introducing
David Mitchell’s Universe’, pp.1-23; Caroline Edwards, ‘Strange Transactions’, p.177-200.
Beyond extremes:Reprasentation und Reflexion von Modernisierungsprozessen imzeitgenossischen britischen Roman - Glomb, Stefan, Horlacher, Stefan, c2004
Book | Recommended Reading
David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten: ghosts, doubles, and writing - Benjamin Hagen, 2009Article | Recommended Reading
General Reading (7 items)
An introduction to literature, criticism and theory - Bennett, Andrew, Royle, Nicholas, 2009Book | Recommended Reading | See especially chapter 5 on ‘The Uncanny’ and chapter
