2005 Graduate Exam Reading Lists
Fall Graduate Exam Reading Lists
Prose Fiction
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
- Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
Poetry
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Theodore Roethke,"The Longing", "Journey to the Interior", "The Abyss", "The Lost Son"
- Denise Levertov, "The Jacob's Ladder","The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me and Why", "The Wings", "Ways of Conquest"
Drama
- William Shakespeare, Richard III
- Moliere, Tartuffe
- Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Prose Nonfiction
- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
- Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
- Louise M. Rosenblatt, Literature as Exploration
Spring Graduate Exam Reading List
Prose Fiction- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Oval Portrait", "Morella", "Berenice", "Eleonora", "Ligeia", "The Fall of the House of Usher."
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- Doris Lessing, The Summer Before the Dark
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Henry Miller, "Tragedy and the Common Man"
- Nina Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American FictionExclude Women Authors"
- William Shakespeare, King Lear
- Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
- August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
- Beowulf
- John Donne, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; "The Flea"; "The Canonization"; "The Sun Rising"; Holy Sonnet 14: "Batter my heart, three-personed God"
- Marianne Moore, "The Steeple-Jack"; "The Hero"; "The Students"; "Marriage"; "An Octopus"; "Poetry" (students must have the poems from the Complete Poems collection, including Moore's Notes for each poem)