Reading List
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
- Tawada, Yoko, Where Europe Begins, transl. by Susan Bernofsky and Yumi Selden (New York: New Directions, 2002)
- Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (London: Picador Classic, [1989] 2015)
- Dalembert, Louis-Philippe, The other side of the sea, transl. by Robert H. McCormick (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014). You can get it from Blackwells: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Other-Side-of-the-Sea-by-Louis-Philippe-Dalembert-Robert-H-McCormick-Jr-translator-Edwidge-Danticat-foreword/9780813936475
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)