Some of the poetic texts on this website will be discussed in class; others have to be read and understood basing on the critical texts made available by the instructor and listed at the corresponding pages of this website.

The reading list below contains novels: of these, 7 have to be read independently by the students; novels are accompanied by critical texts, which constitute part of the obligatory reading for the course.

All critical texts (with the exception of those available on the Internet) are available on a CD provided by the instructor).

All this will be tested in the course.

For the mid-term test (3):

1. Forster A Passage to India
   Edward Said, Comments on A Passage to India, in Culture and Imperialism
2. Galsworthy Man of Property.
   Geoffrey Harvey, Introduction to The Forsyte Saga
3. Greene Brighton Rock
   Bernard Bergonzi, How did Hale die? A footnote to Brighton Rock
4. Hardy Jude the Obscure
   Frank R. Giordano Jr., Jude Fawley: "Why Died I Not from the Womb?"
5. Joyce Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
   Irene Hendry Chayes, Joyce's Epiphanies
6. Lawrence The Rainbow
   Fiona Becket, The Rainbow
7. Woolf The Waves
   Michael Tratner, Ideology and Literary Form in 'The Waves'

For the final test (4):

1. Bradbury Rates of Exchange
   Robert A. Morace, Rates of Exchange: The Liberal Novelist's Quarrel with the French Algebraists
2. Burgess Clockwork Orange
   Geoffrey Aggeler A Clockwork Orange
3. Golding Rites of Passage
   Paul Crawford Historiographic Metafiction, Preromanticism, and the Ship of Fools
4. Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman
   Katherine Tarbox 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and the evolution of the narrative
5. Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
   The Remains of the Day on Postcolonial Web (Sections: Genre & Mode, Characterization, Imagery, Setting, Narrative, Leading Questions)
6. Lodge Small World
   Frederick A. Holmes, The Reader as Discoverer in David Lodge's Small World
7. Rushdie Midnight’s Children
   Josna E. Rege Victim into protagonist? 'Midnight's Children' and the post-Rushdie national narratives of the Eighties
8. Waugh, Brideshead Revisited.
   David Rothstein 'Brideshead Revisited' and the modern historicization of memory.

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