Set texts
2010-2011
Students are required to purchase copies of these texts:
- David Lodge and Nigel Wood, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (3rd edn)
- J.A. Cuddon (ed.) Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by C.E. Preston
- Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
- Allen Ginsberg, Howl
- Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
Selected online criticism on individual texts
Allen Ginsberg's Howl
Allen Ginsberg, "From the Poem that changed America: 'Howl' fifty years later". The American Poetry Review (2006)
Phillip Lopate, "Howl and Me". Iowa Review (2006)
Karen Kevorkian, "American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation". The Virginia Quarterly Review (2004)
Ben Lee, "Howl and Other Poems: Is there old left in these new Beats?" American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism and Bibliography (2004)
David Pozen, "Ginsberg's Howl". The Explicator (2003)
Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop
Elizabeth Gargano, "The Masquerader in the Garden: Gender and the Body in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop. Women's Studies: An interdisciplinary Journal 36.2 (57-78) 2007 [click on check for Full text and follow on until you get the pdf version of the article]
Patricia Smith, "The Queen of the Waste Land: The Endgames of Modernism in Angela Carter's Magic Toyshop". Modern Language Quarterly: A journal of literary history 67.3 (333-61) 2006
Madeleine Monson-Rosen, "The most primeval of passions": Incest in the service of women in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop in Richard Fantina and Thomas Calvin's Straight Writ Queer (pp 232-43)
Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
Rita Felski, "Nothing to declare: Identity, shame and the lower middle class". PMLA (2000) [scroll down the page and click on the pdf link to JSTOR which will display the full text of the article]