Supplementary Texts

The following texts are not required for the course, but will give you some starting points for further exploration of a particular topic.

Literary Criticism

Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction.ÊOxford UP, 1997.

Habib, M. A. R. Literary Studies: A Norton Guide, W. W. Norton, 2019.

Eagleton, Terry. Marxism and Literary Criticism. U of California P, 1976.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. 1929. Mariner, 1989.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Armstrong, Nancy. "The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction." Contemporary Literature, vol. 55, no. 3, fall 2014, pp. 441-465.

Black, Shameem. "Ishiguro's Inhuman Aesthetics." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 55, no. 4, winter 2009, pp. 785-807.

Robbins, Bruce. "Cruelty Is Bad: Banality and Proximity in Never Let Me Go." Novel, vol. 40, no. 3, summer 2007, pp. 289-302.

Schwetman, John. "'Shadowy Objects in Test Tubes': Marking Grievance in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 19, no. 4, 2017, pp. 421-440.

Whitehead, Anne. "Writing with Care: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Contemporary Literature, vol. 52, no. 1, 2011, pp. 54Ð83.

William Shakespeare

Donaldson, Peter. Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors. Unwyn Hyman, 1990.

Fraser, Russell. Young Shakespeare. Columbia UP, 1988.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning. U of Chicago P, 1980.

------. Representing the English Renaissance. U of California P, 1983.

Montrose, Louis. The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Elizabethan Theatre. U of Chicago P, 1996.

Orrell, John. The Human Stage: English Theatre Design, 1567-1640. Cambridge UP, 2009.

Vaughan, Virginia Mason. Othello: A Contextual History. Cambridge UP, 1994.

Willa Cather

Funda, Evelyn I. "Picturing Their Ántonia(s): Mikolás Ales and the Partnership of W. T. Benda and Willa Cather." Cather Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2010, pp. 353-378.

Lambert, Deborah G. "The Defeat of a Hero: Autonomy and Sexuality in My Ántonia." American Literature, vol. 54, no. 4., January 1982, pp. 676-690.

Lucenti, Lisa Marie. "Willa Cather's My Ántonia: Haunting the Houses of Memory." Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 46, no. 2, 2000, pp. 193-213.

O'Brien, Sharon. Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice. Oxford UP, 1987.

Rosowski, Susan J., ed. Approaches to Teaching Willa Cather's "My Ántonia". Modern Language Association, 1989.

Squire, Kelsey. "Legacy and Conflict: Willa Cather and the Spirit of the Western University." Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 34 , no. 3, summer 2014, pp. 239-356.

Urgo, Joseph R. Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration. U of Illinois P, 1995.

Wilhite, Keith. "Unsettled Worlds: Aesthetic Emplacement in Willa Cather's My Ántonia." Studies in the Novel, vol. 42, no. 3, fall 2010, pp. 269-286.