Each student will choose for study and analysis three titles from the first category (“Foundations of Comparative Literature”), three titles from the second, and three titles each from four of the remaining categories.  In each case, other, appropriate titles not on this list may be substituted in consultation with the examiner.  The student shall present his or her choices to the M.A. examiner at least two months before the date of the examination.

1. Foundations of Comparative Literature

Auerbach.  Mimesis.

Bakhtin.  The Dialogic Imagination.

Benjamin.  Illuminations.

Chow.  Writing Diaspora.

de Man.  Resistance to Theory.

Foucault.  Language, Counter-Memory, Practice.

Freud.  Civilization And Its Discontents or Totem and Taboo.

Frye. Anatomy of Criticism.

Marx.  18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

Nietzsche.  Untimely Meditations.

———.  On The Genealogy of Morals.

Said.  Orientalism.

Todorov.  Literature and Its Theorists.

Weber. Institution And Interpretation.

Wellek and Warren.  Theory of Literature.

Zizek.  The Sublime Object of Ideology.

2. Civilizational & Cross-Cultural Texts

Amin.  Eurocentrism.

Arnold. Culture and Anarchy.

Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin.  The Empire Writes Back.

Chari.  Sanskrit Criticism.

Clifford.  Predicament of Culture.

de Certeau.  Heterologies. 

Douglas.  Purity and Danger.

Fabian.  Time and the Other.

Fanon.  Black Skin, White Masks.

Feuer.  Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind.

Freud.  Civilization And Its Discontents.

Gates. Figures In Black

Geertz.  The Interpretation of Cultures.

Gilroy. The Black Atlantic

Greenblatt.  Marvelous Possessions.

Halbfass.  India & Europe.

Harris.  The Womb of Space.

Hashmi. The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World.

Harroway.  Primate Visions.

Levi-Strauss. The Savage Mind.

———.  Tristes Tropiques

Lionnet. Autobiographical Voices.

Liu. Translingual Practice.

Mannoni.  Prospero and Caliban.

Menocal.  The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History.

Miller.  Theories of Africans.

Northrop.  The Melting of East and West.

O’Gorman.  The Invention of America.

Pearce. Savigism and Civilization.

Pratt.  Imperial Eyes.

Pryse and Spillers, ed. Black Women, Fiction, And Literary Tradition.

Rangel.  The Latin Americans.

Rodinson.  Europe and the Mystique of Islam.

Said.  Orientalism.

———. Culture And Imperialism

Sakai.  Translation and Subjectivity.

Schwab. The Oriental Renaissance.

Spivak.  In Other Worlds.

Suleri. The Rhetoric Of English India

Todorov. The Conquest of America.

Turner.  Dramas, Fields & Metaphors.

3. Theories of History

Abrams. The Mirror And The Lamp.

Agamben. The End Of The Poem or Homo Sacer

Alter. The Pleasures Of Reading In An Ideological Age.

Arendt. Between Past And Future (Six Exercises In Political Thought)

———. The Origin Of Totalitarianism.

Auerbach. Mimesis.

Bakhtin.  Rabelais And His World.

Bloom. The Anxiety Of Influence.

Canguilhem. The Normal and the Pathological.

Curtius. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.

Derrida. Writing And Difference

DeCerteau. The Writing of History.

Eisentein. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe .

Foucault. Archaeology Of Knowledge.

——— The Order Of Things.

——— Discipline And Punish.

——— Madness And Civilization.

——— The History Of Sexuality.

Greenblatt.  Renaissance Self-Fashioning From More To Shakespeare.

Hegel. Phenomenology (Preface, Intro, Sections A And B).

———. Philosophy of History.

Marx. German Ideology.

Hazard.  The European Mind.

Horkheimer And Adorno.  Dialectic Of Enlightenment.

Huizinga.  Homo Ludens.

Jameson. The Political Unconscious.

Kristeller.  Renaissance Thought and Its Sources.

LaCapra.  History and Criticism.

Levin. The Myth of the Golden Age in the Renaissance.

Lovejoy.  The Great Chain of Being.

——— Essays in the History of Ideas.

Lukacs.  History and Class Consciousness.

McGann. The Beauty of Inflections.

Ong. Orality and Literacy.

Perkins.  Is Literary History Possible?

Praz. The Romantic Agony.

Said. The World, The Text, the Critic.

Spitzer. Linguistics and Literary History.

Snell. The Discovery of the Mind.

Steiner.  After Babel.

Trilling.  Beyond Culture.

Weimann.  Structure and Society in Literary History.

Wellek. Concepts of Criticism.

White.  Tropics of Discourse.

———  Metahistory.

Veeser.  The New Historicism.

4. Postcolonial

Anderson.  Imagined Communities.

Ahmad . In Theory.

Appadurai. Modernity At Large.

Appiah. In My Father’s House.

Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans.

Balibar.  Race, Nation & Class.

Behdad. Belated Travellers

Bhabha.  Location Of Cultures or Nation And Narration.

Cesaire. Discourse On Colonialism.

Chakrabarty. Provincializing Europe.

Chatterjee.  Nation And Its Fragments.

Chow. Writing Diaspora.

Fanon.  Wretched Of The Earth.

Grewal. Home And Harem.

Jameson. Modernism And Imperialism.

Memmi. The Colonizer And The Colonized.

Mignolo.  Local Histories/Global Designs.

Miller. Theories Of Africans.

Mohanty. “Under Western Eyes.”

Mongia.  Postcolonial Reader.

Mudimbe. The Invention Of Africa.

Pratt.  Imperial Eyes.

Said.  Cultural Imperialism.

Spivak.  Critique Of Postcolonial Reason.

——— .“Can The Subaltern Speak?”

Sunder Rajan. Real And Imagined Women.

Young. Colonial Desire.

———. White Mythologies.

5. Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Structuralism & Semiotics

Barthes.  S/Z.

———  Mythologies.

Bremond. Logique du récit.

Eco. The Role of the Reader.

Fish.  Is There A Text in This Class?

Gadamer. Truth and Method.

Genette. Narrative Discourse.

Greimas. Sémantique structurale.

——— Du sens.

——— On Meaning.

Heidegger.  Poetry, Language, Thought.

Holub. Reception Theory.

Iser. The Act Of Reading.

Jakobson.  Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time.

Jameson.  The Prison-House Of Language.

Jauss. Toward An Aesthetic Of Reception.

Lotman.  The Structure Of The Artistic.

Macksey And Donato, ed. The Structuralist Controversy.

Ortega Y Gasset.  The Dehumanization Of Art.

Palmer. Hermeneutics.

Peirce. Semiotics And Significs.

Poulet. Studies in Human Time.

Propp. The Morphology of the Folktale.

Richard, J.  Poésie et profondeur.

Richard, W. Heidegger.

Russet.  Forme et signification.

Saussure. Course in General Linguistics.

Scholes. Protocols of Reading.

Starobinski.  Words Upon Words.

Todorov.  Theories of the Symbol.

6. Genre

Aristotle.  Poetics.

Armstrong.  Desire & Domestic Fiction.

Bahti.  The Ends of the Lyric.

Bakhtin.  The Dialogic Imagination.

Bal. Narratology.

Colie. The Resources of Kind.

Debrow.  Genre.

Derrida. “The Law Of Genre”

Fergusson.  The Idea Of A Theater.

Fowler.  Kinds Of Literature.

Frye.  Anatomy Of Criticism.

Genette.  The Architext.

Halperin.  The Theory of the Novel.

Hernadi.  Beyond Genre.

Hutcheon. The Theory of Paradoy

Kermode.  Sense of the Ending.

Lukacs.  The Theory of the Novel.

Miller.  The Novel and the Police.

Nietzsche.  The Birth of Tragedy.

Propp. Morphology of the Folktale.

Quint.  Epic and Empire.

Rosmaren.  The Power of Genre.

Said.  Beginnings.

Scholes and Kellog. The Nature of Narrative.

Todorov. The Fantastic.

———  “The Origin of Genres”

———  Introduction to Poetics.

———  The Poetics of Prose.

Tomashevsky.  “Literary Genres”

7. Psychoanalysis

Aulangnier-Spairani, et al. Le desir et la perversion.

Brooks.  Reading for the Plot.

Burke.  Language As Symbolic Action.

Butler.  Psychic Life of Power.

Caruth. Trauma.

Chasseguet-Smirgel. Female Sexuality.

Chasseguet-Smirgel and Kernberg. Creativity and Perversion.

Deleuze and Guattari.  Anti-Oedipus.

Felman.  Literature and Psychoanalysis.

——— Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight.

Freud.  Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis.

——— The Interpretation of Dreams.

——— Studies on Hysteria.

——— Three Essays on Sexuality.

——— Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria.

Fink. The Lacanian Subject

Gallop.  Reading Lacan.

Gilman. Reading Freud’s Reading.

Goux, Oedipus, Philosopher

Jones. Papers on Psychoanalysis

Klein.  The Selected Melanie Klein

Kristeva.  Black Sun.

———  On Horror.

Lacan.  Écrits:  A Selection.

———  Four Fundamental Concepts.

———  Feminine Sexuality.

———  “Seminar on the ‘Purloined Letter’”

Lagache. The Works of Daniel Lagache

Laplanche.  Life and Death in Psychoanalysis.

Laplanche and Pontalis.  Language of Psycho-Analysis.

Marcuse.  Eros and Civilization.

Muller and Richardson.  The Purloined Poe.

Riviere, The Inner World and Joan Riviere.

Rosolato. Essais sur le symbolique

Silverman.  Male Subjectivity at the Margins.

——— Threshold of the Visible World.

Zizek.  Looking Awry.

——— The Sublime Object of Ideology.

8. Gender Studies

Armstrong. Desire And Domestic Fiction.

Butler.  Gender Trouble.

———. Bodies That Matter.

Cavarero.  Relating Narratives.

Dollimore.  Sexual Dissidence.

Franco.  Plotting Women.

Kaplan.  Between Woman And Nation.

Kennedy And Mendus, ed. Women In Western Political Philosophy.

Lacquer.  Making Sex.

Mac Cannell. The Regime of The Brother.

Moraga.  This Bridge Called My Back.

Parker et al.  Nationalisms And Sexualities.

Penley. Feminism and Film Theory

———. The Future of an Illusion

Penley and Willis. Male Trouble.

Sangari and Vaid, Recasting Women.

Sedgwick.  Between Men. 

———. Epistemology of The Closet.

Silverman.  Male Subjectivity At The Margins.

——— The Acoustic Mirror.

———. World Spectators.

Sunder Rajan. Real and Imagined Women.

Treichler, Cartwright, and Penley. The Visible Woman.

Warhol.  Feminisms.

9. Marxism

Adorno.  Negative Dialectics.

———. Aesthetic Theory.

Althusser. For Marx?

———. “Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses.”

Anderson. Considerations On Western Marxism.

Derrida.  Spectres of Marx.

Dollimore and Sinfield.  Political Shakespeare:  Essays in Cultural Materialism.

Engels. Feuerbach And The End Of Classical German Philosophy.

Gramsci.  Prison Notebooks.

Jameson. Marxism And Form.

Lowy. On Changing The World.

Lukacs. History And Class Consciousness.

———. Theory Of The Novel.

Luxemburg. “Leninism or Marxism.”

Macherey.  A Theory of Literary Production.

Marx.  Capital.

———. The German Ideology.

———.  “Communist Manifesto.”

Negri and Hardt.  Empire.

Williams.  The Country and the City.

———.   Culture and Society

10. Deconstruction, Post-Structuralism, Post-Modernism

Appadurai.  Modernity at Large

Attridge, Bennington, And Young, Ed, Post-Strutcturalism And The Question Of History.

Blanchot.  The Space of Literature.

Bataille.  Tears of Eros

Baudrillard.  Simulacra and Simulation

Bourdieu.  Distinction

Butler. Excitable Speech.

Cadava, Connor, Nancy, Ed. Who Comes After The Subject?

Colas.  Postmodernity In Latin America.

Deleuze And Guattari.  Anti-Oedipus.

De Man, Allegories Of Reading.

———. The Rhetoric Of Romanticism.

Derrida.  Ltd., inc.

———.  Spectres of Marx.

———. Of Grammatology.

Foster. The Anti-Aesthetic

———. The Return of the Real

Hutcheon.  A Poetics of Postmodernism.

———. The Politics of Postmodernism

Huyssen. After the Great Divide

Kaplan. Questions of Travel:  Postmodern Discourses of Displacement.

Kroker and Kroker. The Last Sex

———. Digital Delirium

Jameson.  Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.

Lyotard.  Postmodern Condition

Miller. The Ethics Of Reading.

Nancy. The Inoperative Community.

Nietzsche.  Geneology Of Morals.

Owens. Beyond Recognition

Readings. The University In Ruins.

Ronel.  Crack Wars.

———. The Telephone Book.

Ross. Universal Abandon?

Soja.  Postmodern Geographies.

Weber and De Vries, ed. Violence And Identity.

Wallis.  Art After Modernism