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Comparative Literature Year 1: preliminary reading list

Semester 1 compulsory modules

COM4208 Brief Encounters: Around the World in Short Stories

  • March-Russell, Paul, The Short Story: An Introduction [PDF 179KB] (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), chapter one: “Origins: From Folktale to Art-Tale.”
  • Additional Readings TBC through the module’s QMPLUS page.

COM4206 Introduction to Comparison

Discussion texts will be available through QMPLUS before the start of second semester

Semester 2 compulsory modules

COM4202 Understanding Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Theory

Discussion texts will be available through QMPLUS before the start of second semester. No need to purchase any additional texts.

Full year compulsory modules

COM4207 The Scene of Learning

The texts will be studied in the order listed. All other texts, cultural objects will be available via QMplus.

SEMESTER 1

SEMESTER 2

  • Menchu, Rigoberta, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, transl. by Ann Wright (London: Verso, 1984)
  • Barghouti, Mourid, I Saw Ramallah, transl. by Ahdaf Soueif  (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; 2nd ed. edition (16 May 2005) [with introduction by  Edward Said]
  • Ionesco, Eugène, ‘The Lesson’ in Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson, transl. by Derek Prowse, Donald Watson (London: Penguin Classics, 2000)
  • Friel, Brian, Translations (Faber and Faber, London, 1981)
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