I'm starting off my reading year for my PhD, when I'll have (roughly) 130 texts to explore, swallow, and turn over.
The Book of Job, translated by Stephen Mitchell |
The Metamorphoses, Ovid |
Don Quixote, Cervantes |
The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare |
Ooronoko, Aphra Behn |
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel deFoe |
Pamela, Samuel Richardson |
Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding |
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy |
Evelina and “Mastectomy: A Letter to Esther Burney” by Frances Burney |
The Mysteries of Udolpho |
The Nun, Denis Diderot |
The Monk, Matthew Lewis |
Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen |
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley |
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
“Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe |
Jane Eyre; Villette |
Wuthering Heights |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
The Scarlet Letter |
Moby Dick, or The Whale |
North and South |
Madame Bovary, Flaubert |
The Woman in White |
Our Mutual Friend |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass |
Middlemarch |
The Way We Live Now |
The Story of an African Farm |
Against Nature |
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
The Death of Ivan Illych |
A Study in Scarlet |
The Picture of Dorian Grey |
Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
“The Pupil,” Turn of the Screw |
The Type-Writer Girl |
Dracula |
The Awakening
Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein |
“The Dead," James Joyce |
The Metamorphosis; “The Penal Colony” |
Mrs. Dalloway; Orlando |
The Great Gatsby |
Passing |
Incest |
The Unnameable |
Pale Fire |
Labyrinths |
The Crying of Lot 49 |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
One Hundred Years of Solitude; “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Invisible Cities |
The Bloody Chamber |
Kindred |
The Cancer Journals |
Dictee |
The Lover; The North China Lover |
Neuromancer |
Beloved |
Geek Love |
The Gynecologist |
Touching Rock: An Experience of Blindness |
Written on the Body |
Gifts of the Body |
The Art Lover |
Tell Me a Riddle |
Wit |
Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor |
The Hours |
House of Leaves |
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold |
Kafka on the Shore |
Melancholy of Anatomy |
Little Black Book of Stories |
“The Suffering Channel,” “Good Old Neon,” “Incarnations of Burned Children” from Oblivion |
Ceremony |
TOC
Book X of The Republic |
Selections from Poetics |
“The Uncanny” and “Femininity” |
“How Should One Read a Book?” “Robinson Crusoe” “Modern Fiction” “Hours in a Library” “Reading” “On Being Ill” |
“Introduction,” “The Solar Anus,” “The Language of Flowers,” “The Big Toe,” “Rotten Sun,” “Mouth,” “Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh,” “The Use Value of D.A.F. de Sade,” “The Notion of Expenditure” and “The Psychological Structure of Fascism” from Visions of Excess |
“The Mirror Stage, “The Meaning of the Phallus” |
Anatomy of Criticisms (1st two excerpts) |
“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences,” “Difference,” and “Dangerous Supplement” |
“The Face of Garbo,” “Striptease,” “The World of Wrestling,” “Toys,” “The Lady of the Camellias” and “Myth Today” from Mythologies |
Preface, Conclusion, and Chapters 6-9 in The Birth of the Clinic ; “Panopticism” from Discipline and Punish (pt. 3, ch. 3); The History of Sexuality Volume One |
The Fantastic |
“Laugh of the Medusa” |
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning & Importance of Fairy Tales |
“This Sex Which Is Not One,” “Women on the Market,” “When Our Lips Speak Together”
“Illness as Metaphor” and “AIDS and its Metaphors” |
Chapters 1 & 2 in The Political Unconscious |
The Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection |
“Toward a Feminist Poetics” in Madwoman in the Attic |
“My Hideous Progeny: The Lady and the Monster” from The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer |
“Simulacra and Simulation” |
The Body in Pain |
“AIDS and Syphilis: The Iconography of Disease” |
Selections from Gender Trouble |
“Epistemology of the Closet” from Epistemology of the Closet |
Transformations of a Myth Through Time |
“The Cyborg Manifesto” |
Coldness and Cruelty |
“Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory” in The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess, and Modernity |
“Introduction,” “The Female Thermometer,” “The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolopho” from The Female Thermometer |
Chapters 1-4 in Skin Shows |
Genesis: Translation and Commentary |
Chapters 1-3, 5 in Extraordinary Bodies |
Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Chapters 5-6 in Narrative Prosthesis |
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma & Testimony |
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self |
Ordinary Enchantments: Magic Realism and the Remystification of Narrative |
“Print is Flat, Code is Deep” |
Chapters 1-2, 4 & 6 from Aesthetic Nervousness |
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