Graduate Exam Reading List for Spring 2006
Prose Fiction
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Poetry
- Shakespeare, Sonnets
- William Wordsworth, The Prelude
- Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Drama
- Jean Racine, Phaedra
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
- Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit
Prose Nonfiction
- Plato, "The Apology of Socrates"
- Sir Philip Sydney, Defence of Poesie
- Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad