Literary Works to Prepare for the Comps
Here is a space to suggest and discuss works you might want to prepare for the comps. My advice is to prepare five or six short works from different periods that lend themselves to a wide variety of critical approaches. Obviously, you've already got Heart of Darkness, "The Yellow Wallpaper", and The Second Shepherds' Pagenat of Wakefield. Some of the things that were mentioned at the end of class today appear below.
If I'm missing anything here and you want to make suggestions, please use the comment space to add things.
- Hamlet by Shakespeare (Renaissance) - Marxism, Psychoanalysis, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Liberal Humanism, Deconstruction
- "The Body Electric" and "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman (19th C American) - Psychoanalysis, Liberal Humanism, Queer Theory
- Poems by Emily Dickinson (19th C American) - Psychoanalysis, Feminism
- Frankenstein (early 19th C British [Romantic/Gothic]) - Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction
- Virginia Woolf, James Joyce (Ulysses or the short stories in Dubliners), Gertrude Stein, Joseph Conrad (basically, any early 20th C modernist fiction writer) - Narratology, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Postcolonialism, Deconstruction, Structuralism, Liberal Humanism
- A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid - Postcolonialism, Marxism, Narratology
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) by Stephen Crane - Realism/Naturalism, Narratology, Deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism
- "A Room of One's Own" (1929) by Virginia Woolf - Feminism, Marxism
- The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras - Narratology, Psychoanalysis, Feminism
Here is a space to suggest and discuss works you might want to prepare for the comps. My advice is to prepare five or six short works from different periods that lend themselves to a wide variety of critical approaches. Obviously, you've already got Heart of Darkness, "The Yellow Wallpaper", and The Second Shepherds' Pagenat of Wakefield. Some of the things that were mentioned at the end of class today appear below.
If I'm missing anything here and you want to make suggestions, please use the comment space to add things.
- Hamlet by Shakespeare (Renaissance) - Marxism, Psychoanalysis, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Liberal Humanism, Deconstruction
- "The Body Electric" and "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman (19th C American) - Psychoanalysis, Liberal Humanism, Queer Theory
- Poems by Emily Dickinson (19th C American) - Psychoanalysis, Feminism
- Frankenstein (early 19th C British [Romantic/Gothic]) - Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction
- Virginia Woolf, James Joyce (Ulysses or the short stories in Dubliners), Gertrude Stein, Joseph Conrad (basically, any early 20th C modernist fiction writer) - Narratology, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Postcolonialism, Deconstruction, Structuralism, Liberal Humanism
- A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid - Postcolonialism, Marxism, Narratology
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) by Stephen Crane - Realism/Naturalism, Narratology, Deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism
- "A Room of One's Own" (1929) by Virginia Woolf - Feminism, Marxism
- The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras - Narratology, Psychoanalysis, Feminism
posted by Jeff at
6:15 PM
11 Comments:
Also, for Frankenstein, Narratology works as well. There is a large section in the middle of the book where the monster narrates "through" Frankenstein.
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Matt Fisher, at 8/15/2006 8:40 AM
Daisy Miller, by Henry James--psychoanalysis, Marxist, deconstruction, Liberal Humanism, Narratology, Feminism.
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Matt Fisher, at 8/15/2006 8:43 AM
One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey--Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Postcolonialism (treatment of the Chief, perhaps?), New Historicism.
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Matt Fisher, at 8/15/2006 8:45 AM
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein. This one is a full novel, but is EXCELLENT for Narratology (It's an autobiography supposedly written about Alice B. Toklas, Stein's longtime partner. However, Stein wrote it, and it mostly talks about Stein!), Queer Theory (They were both lesbians, and the issue is carefully avoided throughout the book), Feminism, postmodernism, structuralism, Marxism.
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Matt Fisher, at 8/15/2006 8:49 AM
Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe--Narratology, Liberal Humanism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis.
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Matt Fisher, at 8/15/2006 8:50 AM
Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson--psychoanalysis, liberal humanism, structuralism, deconstruction.
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Matt Fisher, at 8/15/2006 8:53 AM
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann-
Queer theory, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism (?)
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Robert Damon, at 8/15/2006 8:29 PM
If songs can be used, here are a few:
1) Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up In Blue"-- Narratology, liberal humanist, deconstruction, structuralist.
2) Bob Dylan, "Visions of Johanna" --Narratology, liberal humanist, psychoanalysis, deconstruction.
3) Bob Dylan, "Just Like A Woman"--Feminism.
4) Harry Chapin, "Taxi" --Narratology, liberal humanist, psychoanalysis.
5) Tracy Chapman, "Talkin 'Bout a Revolution"--Marxism.
6) Velvet Underground "Pale Blue Eyes"--Queer Theory, liberal humanism, psychoanalysis.
7) Bob Marley, "Buffalo Soldier"--Post colonialism.
Just some ideas :)
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Matt Fisher, at 8/16/2006 9:18 AM
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka- Pschoanalysis, Marxism, Feminism, Cultural Materialism...
Additionally, I think that there are a few Kafka short stories which may endure multiple pespectives of analysis.
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Robert Damon, at 8/16/2006 4:03 PM
Just wanted to add that postcolonialism could also be added to the list for The Lover.
Also, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih would make a great case for postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, narratology, and feminism. Perhaps even queer theory, but I'm less familiar with that.
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Niela, at 8/16/2006 7:22 PM
Another song idea: Bright Eyes, "Lover I Don't Have To Love"--narratology, psychoanalysis, liberal humanism.
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Matt Fisher, at 8/17/2006 5:41 AM
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