Summer School Reading Lists
Old College at Edinburgh University The following books constitute
the core texts, which form the basis of the academic work of the 2012
School. Students are strongly advised to read as many of the texts
as possible before arriving in Edinburgh as time will be limited once
the programme is underway. The lectures will be pitched high, and
lecturers are advised that all students will be familiar with the texts
at the time of lecture.
NB: Students need not purchase copies of the volumes of poetry
- poems will be distributed by tutors in seminars.
Term 1: Modernism
- Samuel Beckett, Endgame and Waiting for Godot
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September
- T. S. Eliot, Selected Poems (find here 'The
Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men')
- Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
- James Joyce, Dubliners
- Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
- W. B. Yeats, Purgatory and selected poetry
(suggested edition: W.B. Yeats: The Major Works [Edward Larrissy
ed.])
Term 2: Scottish Literature 1900-Present
- Gregory Burke, Black Watch
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song
- Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
- James Kelman, Greyhound for Breakfast
- A.L. Kennedy, What Becomes
- Liz Lochhead, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off and Dreaming
Frankenstein and Collected Poems 1967-1984
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poetry
- John McGrath, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
- Edwin Morgan, New Selected Poetry
- Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The
Driver's Seat
- selected contemporary Scottish poetry
Term 3: Contemporary Literature
- J.G. Ballard, Myths of the Near Future (in The Complete
Short Stories II)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
- Ciaran Carson, Collected Poems (Peter Fallon ed.)
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
- Sarah Kane, Blasted
- Jackie Kay, Trumpet
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
- Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan
- Medbh McGuckian, Selected Poems: 1978-1994
- Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968-1998
- Ten: New Poets from Spread the Word (Bernardine Evaristo
and Daljit Nagra eds)
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