Summer School Reading Lists
Find below the core
texts for the 2013 Summer School, on which the tuition
will be based. 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 DO NOT need to purchase
the volumes of poetry - poems will be distributed by tutors in
seminars.
Term 1: Modernism
- John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland
- E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
- Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World
- James Joyce, Dubliners
- George Orwell, 1984
- 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
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poetry
- John McGrath, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
- Edwin Morgan, New Selected Poetry
- Donny O’Rourke [Ed.], Dream State: The New
Scottish Poets
- Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The
Driver's Seat
- James Robertson, The Testament of Gideon Mack
- Alan Warner, Morvern Callar
Term 3: Contemporary Literature
& Creative Writing
- Samuel Beckett, Endgame and selected works
- Angela Carter, Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
- Sarah Kane, Blasted
- Jackie Kay, Trumpet
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
- Don Paterson and Charles Simic [Eds.], New British Poetry
- Ali Smith, There But For The
- Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship
- Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry
2002-2011
|
