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| − | == | + | ==Gender Relations== |
| − | + | *[[J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (1999)]]. | |
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==Creating the Future== | ==Creating the Future== | ||
| − | *[[Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733)]] | + | *[[Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733)]]. |
| − | *[[Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Deux mille quatre cent quarante (1771) | + | *[[Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Deux mille quatre cent quarante (1771)|Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred, [1771] translated from the French by W. Hooper, vol. 1 (London: G. Robinson, 1772)]]. |
| − | *[[Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)]] | + | *[[Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)]]. |
| − | *[[Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888)]] | + | *[[Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888)]]. |
| − | *[[H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)]] | + | *[[H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)]]. |
==Creating the Past== | ==Creating the Past== | ||
==Sexuality== | ==Sexuality== | ||
| + | *[[John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1749)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004)]]. | ||
==Religion== | ==Religion== | ||
| + | *[[Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001)]]. | ||
| + | *Howard Jacobson, ''Kalooki Nights'' (2006). | ||
==The First Person== | ==The First Person== | ||
| + | *[[Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)]]. | ||
| − | ==Arthurian Literature== | + | ==Arthurian Literature and Movies== |
| + | *[[Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485)]]. | ||
| + | *[[John Dryden, King Arthur (1691)]], opera composed by Henry Purcell. | ||
| + | *[[Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (1856-1885)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Knights of the Round Table (USA, 1953)]], film directed by Richard Thorpe | ||
| + | *[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)]], film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | ||
| + | *[[First Knight (1995)]], film directed by Richard Thorpe | ||
==Utopias and Distopias== | ==Utopias and Distopias== | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Women Authors== | ||
| + | *[[Aphra Behn, Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-1687)]]. | ||
| + | *[[A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Postmodern Fiction== | ||
| + | *Robert Coover, ''Pricksongs & Descants'' (1969). (collection of short stories) | ||
| + | *John Fowles, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1969). | ||
| + | *[[A.L Kennedy, Looking for the Possible Dance (1993)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)]]. | ||
| + | *Jonathan Franzen, ''The Corrections'' (2001). | ||
| + | *[[Nicola Barker, Darkmans (2007)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Postcolonial Fiction== | ||
| + | *[[Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Caryl Phillips, The Final Passage (1985)]]. | ||
| + | *[[V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections (1987)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Campus and Academic== | ||
| + | *Evelyn Waugh, ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1945). | ||
| + | *Vladimir Nabokov, ''Pnin'' (1957). | ||
| + | *[[David Lodge, Small World: An Academic Romance (1984)]]. | ||
| + | *Don DeLillo, ''White Noise'' (1985). | ||
| + | *[[A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990)]]. | ||
| + | *[[2007-08 AM Zadie Smith's Multicultural World|Zadie Smith, On Beauty (2005)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Adolescence== | ||
| + | *[[Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love (1995)]]. | ||
| + | *[[DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little (2003)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Jonathan Trigell, Boy A (2004)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Representations of London== | ||
| + | *Daniel Defoe, ''A Journal of the Plague Year'' (1722). | ||
| + | *[[Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)]]. | ||
| + | *Oscar Wilde, ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1891). | ||
| + | *Iris Murdoch, ''A Severed Head'' (1961). | ||
| + | *Peter Ackroy, ''Hawksmoor'' (1985). | ||
| + | *[[Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==The British Museum Reading Room== | ||
| + | *George Gissing, ''New Grub Street'' (1881). | ||
| + | *David Lodge, ''The British Museum Is Falling Down'' (1965). | ||
| + | *[[A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Magical Realism in English== | ||
| + | *Toni Morrison, ''Song of Solomon'' (1977). | ||
| + | *Graham Swift, ''Waterland'' (1983). | ||
| + | *Peter Carey, ''Illywhacker'' (1985). | ||
| + | *Mordecai Richler, ''Solomon Gursky Was Here'' (1989). | ||
| + | *[[Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991)]]. | ||
| + | *[[Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Robinson Crusoe and Variations== | ||
| + | *[[Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)]]. | ||
| + | *J. M. Coetzee, ''Foe'' (1986). | ||
| + | *''Castaway'', Dir. Robert Zemeckis (2000). | ||
| + | *[[Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001)]]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Category:Reading lists|literature]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:17, 1 July 2008
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Contents
- 1 Gender Relations
- 2 Creating the Future
- 3 Creating the Past
- 4 Sexuality
- 5 Religion
- 6 The First Person
- 7 Arthurian Literature and Movies
- 8 Utopias and Distopias
- 9 Women Authors
- 10 Postmodern Fiction
- 11 Postcolonial Fiction
- 12 Campus and Academic
- 13 Adolescence
- 14 Representations of London
- 15 The British Museum Reading Room
- 16 Magical Realism in English
- 17 Robinson Crusoe and Variations
Gender Relations
Creating the Future
- Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred, [1771] translated from the French by W. Hooper, vol. 1 (London: G. Robinson, 1772).
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826).
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895).
Creating the Past
Sexuality
- John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1749).
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004).
Religion
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).
- Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights (2006).
The First Person
Arthurian Literature and Movies
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485).
- John Dryden, King Arthur (1691), opera composed by Henry Purcell.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (1856-1885).
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
- Knights of the Round Table (USA, 1953), film directed by Richard Thorpe
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
- First Knight (1995), film directed by Richard Thorpe
Utopias and Distopias
Women Authors
- Aphra Behn, Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-1687).
- A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
Postmodern Fiction
- Robert Coover, Pricksongs & Descants (1969). (collection of short stories)
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969).
- A.L Kennedy, Looking for the Possible Dance (1993).
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001).
- Nicola Barker, Darkmans (2007).
Postcolonial Fiction
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958).
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981).
- Caryl Phillips, The Final Passage (1985).
- V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections (1987).
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997).
Campus and Academic
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945).
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957).
- David Lodge, Small World: An Academic Romance (1984).
- Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985).
- A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
- Zadie Smith, On Beauty (2005).
Adolescence
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).
- Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993).
- Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love (1995).
- DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little (2003).
- Jonathan Trigell, Boy A (2004).
Representations of London
- Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (1722).
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head (1961).
- Peter Ackroy, Hawksmoor (1985).
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).
The British Museum Reading Room
- George Gissing, New Grub Street (1881).
- David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965).
- A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
Magical Realism in English
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977).
- Graham Swift, Waterland (1983).
- Peter Carey, Illywhacker (1985).
- Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989).
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).
Robinson Crusoe and Variations
- Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
- J. M. Coetzee, Foe (1986).
- Castaway, Dir. Robert Zemeckis (2000).
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).
