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SUGGESTED AND FURTHER READING/VIEWING/LISTENING LIST

For students in my classes, this list provides options for further and suggested reading, CDs, videos, hypertexts, etc. which you may explore as part of your coursework in contemporary and (selected) classic literary arts. All works on this list fulfill reading/response requirements for my courses, and most can be found in the Rockefeller Library, the John Hay Library, Orwig music library, or through Small Press Distributors or other on-line literary sites.
 

 

Abe, Kobo

The Woman in The Dunes

Abish, Walter

Alphabetical Africa

 

How German Is It?

Acker, Kathy

"I Dreamt I was a Nymphomaniac"

 

"The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Lautrec"

 

Blood and Guts in High School

Addams, John

Nixon in China (video/cd)

Alexander, Will

Above the Human Nerve Domain

Algarin, ed.

Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe

Antin, David

What It Means to be Avant Garde

Artaud, Antonin

Watch Fiends and Rack Screams

Ashbery, John

Flow Chart

 

Girls on the Run

 

Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Ashley, Robert

Automatic Writing (CD)

 

Improvement (CD)

 

Perfect Lives (CD)

Baldwin, James

Another Country

 

Go Tell It On the Mountain

 

Jimmy's Blues

 

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

 

The Fire Next Time

Baraka, Amiri

Funk Lore

 

Transbluesency

 

Wise, Why's, Y's

Barnes, Djuna

Nightwood

 

The Antiphon

Barth, John

Lost in the Funhouse

Barthelme, Donald

40 Stories

Basquiat, Jean-Michel

King for a Decade

Bataille, Georges

Story of the Eye

Bauer, Wolfgang

"Microdramas"

Beatty, Paul

Joker Joker Deuce

Beckett, Samuel

"Endgame"

 

"Krapp's Last Tape"

 

"Waiting for Godot"

 

Molloy

 

Texts for Nothing

 

The Unnameable

 

Watt

Bellamy, Dodie

"Incarnation"

 

The Letters of Mina Harker

Bely, Andrei

Petersburg

 

The Dramatic Symphony

Berg, Alban

Lulu (CD)

 

Wozzeck (CD)

Bergvall, Caroline

Goan Atom

Blanchot, Maurice

Death Sentence

Borges, Jorge Luis

Ficciones/Labyrinths

 

"The Library of Babel"

 

"Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote"

 

"The Circular Ruins"

 

"The Garden of Forking Paths"

Brathwaite, Kamau

Trenchtown Rock

Brautigan, Richard

Trout Fishing in America

Brecht, Bertolt

Baal

 

Galileo

 

Mother Courage

 

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

 

The Jungle of the Cities

 

The Lehrstuck

 

The Threepenny Opera (CD)

Breuer, Lee

Sister Suzie Cinema

 

The Warrior Ant (video/CD)

Britten, Benjamin

Peter Grimes (CD)

Brossard, Nicole

Surfaces of Sense

 

The Aerial Letter

Bundy, Alison

A Bad Business

 

Dunce Cap

Cage, John

A Year from Monday

 

Indeterminacy (CD)

 

Lecture on Nothing (CD)

 

Silence

 

The John Cage Tribute (CD)

Calvino, Italo

Cosmicomics

 

Invisible Cities

Caponegro, Mary

The Star Cafe

Cariaga, Catalina

Cultural Evidence

Carson, Anne

Autobiography of Red

 

Glass, Irony and God

 

Plainwater

Cha, Teresa Hak Kyung

Dictee

Chekov, Anton

Collected Short Stories

 

The Seagull

 

Three Sisters

 

Uncle Vanya

Chunn, Nancy

Front Pages

Churchill, Caryl

The Skryker

Coetzee, J.M. 

Waiting for the Barbarians

Conrad, Joseph

Heart of Darkness

Coover, Robert

A Night at the Movies

 

A Public Burning

 

John's Wife

 

Pricksongs and Descants

Cortazar, Julio

Hopscotch

D'Agata, John

Halls of Fame

Darragh, Tina

Striking Resemblances

Davenport, Guy

Da Vinci's Bicycle

Davis, Lydia

Break It Down

 

The End of the Story

Deleuze, Gilles

On the Line

Delillo, Don

White Noise

Deren, Maya

Experimental Films (video) 

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Notes from Underground

Duchamp, Marcel

Writings (ed. Sanouillet) 

Dun, Tan

Marco Polo (CD) 

Duncan, Robert

Faust Foutu

 

Selected Poems

Duras, Marguerite

4 Short Novels ("The Square")

 

Hiroshima, Mon Amour

 

The Man Sitting in the Corridor

 

The Ravishing of Lol Stein

 

The Sailor from Gibraltar

Durrenmatt, Friedrich

The Visit

edwards, kari

post/pink

Ellison, Ralph

Invisible Man

Elmslie, Kenward

Lizzie Borden (CD) 

Ernst, Max

Semaine de Bonte (collage novel) 

Everett, Percival

Grand Canyon, Inc. 

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Routines

Fuller, Buckminster

The World of Buckminster Fuller (video) 

Gass, William

At the Heart of the Heart of the Country

Glave, Thomas

Whose Song? And Other Stories

Gogol, Nicolai

Dead Souls

Gomez-Pena, Guillermo

Codex Espangliensis

 

The New World Border

 

Warrior for Gringostroika

Goulish, Matthew

39 Microlectures in proximity of performance

Goya, Francisco

Los Caprichos

Grass, Gunter

Headbirths or the Germans Are Dying Out

Hagedorn, Jessica

Dogeaters

Hamilton, Ann

Mneme

 

The Body and the Object

Handke, Peter

"Offending the Audience"

 

"The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other"

 

"Kaspar"

 

"Self-Accusation"

Harper, Michael S. 

Debridement

Harriman, Carla

Animal Instincts

 

Memory Play

 

There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn

Hawkes, John

Second Skin

 

The Passion Artist

 

Travesty

Hawthorne, Nathanial

"The Artist of the Beautiful"

 

"Young Goodman Brown"

 

"The Birthmark"

 

"Rappaccini's Daughter"

Hejinian, Lyn

My Life

 

The Cell

Hoch, Hannah

The Photomontages

Hollo, Anselm

Selected Poems

Holtzer, Jenny

Jenny Holtzer

Howe, Fanny

Selected Poems

 

The Quietest

Hunt, Erika

Arcade

Hunt, Laird

The Impossibly

Jabes, Edmond

The Book of Margins

 

The Book of Questions

Jackson, Shelley

Patchwork Girl (hypertext) 

 

The Melancholy of Anatomy

Jarnot, Lisa

Ring of Fire

 

Some Other Kind of Mission

Johnson, Denis

Jesus' Son

Joron, Andrew

Science Fiction

Kafka, Franz

The Complete Stories

Kalidasa

The Mirror of Poetry

Keene, John

Annotations

Kelly, Robert

Red Actions

 

Selected Poems

Kim, Myung Mi

Dura

 

The Bounty

 

Under Flag

Kincaid, Jamaica

At the Bottom of the River

Kostelanetz, Richard, ed. 

Text-Sound-Text

Krasnahorkai, Laszlo

The Melancholy of Resistance

Kroetz, Franz Xaver

"Request Concert"

 

"Mensch Meier"

 

"Through the Leaves"

 

"Farmyard"

 

"A Man, a dictionary"

Kundera, Milan

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Lamming, George

The Emigrants

Lannan Fdn. 

Writer's Interviews (videos/avail in Blistein) 

Lethem, Jonathan

Motherless Brooklyn

Leyner, Mark

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

Lorca, Fredericoi Garcia

"Blood Wedding"

Lu, Pamela

Pamela: A Novel

Lucier, Alvin

Clocker (CD) 

 

I am Sitting in a Room (CD) 

Marcus, Ben

The Age of Wire and String

Margraff, Ruth

Centaur Battle of San Jacinto (CD) 

 

Night Visions (CD and book) 

Markson, David

Reader's Block

 

This is Not a Novel

Maso, Carole

Ava

 

The American Woman in the Chinese Hat

 

The Art Lover

Mayer, Bernadette

A Bernadette Mayer Reader

 

Midwinter Day

McCafferty, Larry, ed. 

The Avant-Pop Anthology

Melville, Herman

"Bartelby the Scrivener"

 

"Billy Budd"

 

"The Confidence Man: His Masquerade"

Memmott, Talan

Lexia to Perplexia (online @ trace.ntu.ac.uk/comp.cfm

Monk, Meredith

Atlas (CD) 

 

Key (CD) 

Moriarty, Laura

The Case

Morris, Errol

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (doc video) 

Morrison, Toni

Jazz

Mullen, Harryette

Muse & Drudge

 

Trimmings

Mullen, Laura

Tales of Horror

Muller, Heiner

"HamletMachine"

 

"Quartett"

Musil, Robert

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

 

The Man Without Qualities

Nabokov, Vladimir

Invitation to a Beheading

Nelson, Gale

ceteris paribus

Newman, Sandra

The Only Good Thing Anyone Ever Did

Notley, Alice

Descent of Alette

O'Connor, Flannery

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Okri, Ben

The Famished Road

Olesha, Yuri

Envy

Osman, Jena

The Character

Ovid

Metamorphosis

Paley, Grace

Collected Stories

 

"An Interest in Life"

Parks, Suzan-Lori

"Death of the Last Black Man...." 

 

"The America Play"

 

"Venus"

 

"Imperceptible Mutabilites..." 

 

"Betting on the Dust Commander"

Partch, Harry

Revelation in the Courthouse Park (CD) 

 

The Bewitched (CD) 

Pate, Alexs

West Of Rehoboth

Patton, Julie

Teething on Type

Pavic, Milorad

Dictionary of the Khazars

Perec, Georges

Life: A User's Manual

 

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

Phillips, Tom

A Humament

Pineda, Cecile

Face

Plato

The Gorgias

 

The Phaedrus

 

The Republic

 

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Pynchon, Thomas

The Crying of Lot 49

Reich, Steve

The Cave (CD) 

Retallack, Joan

Afterrimages

 

How to do Things With Words

Reznikoff, Charles

Testimony

Rhys, Jean

The Wide Sargasso Sea

Rider, Bhanu Kapil

Autobiography of a Cyborg

 

The Verticle Interrogation of Strangers

Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Jealousy

Roger, Mais

Brother Man

Roubaud, Jacques

The Princess Hoppy

Roy, Camille

Swarm

RTmark

Rtmark.com

Russ, Joanna

The Female Man

Sarraute, Natalie

Fool's Say

 

Here

 

You Don't Love Yourself

Sartre, Jean-Paul

"No exit"

 

Nausea

Scalapino, Leslie

Defoe

Schoenberg, Arnold

Moses und Aron (CD) 

 

Pierrot Lunaire (CD) 

Scholder, Amy, ed. 

The High-Risk Anthology

Schwitters, Kurt

Poems, Performance Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics

Sebald, W.G. 

Rings of Saturn

 

The Emigrants

Shakespeare, William

The Riverside Shakespeare

Shelley, Mary

Frankenstein

Sondheim, Steven

Assassins (CD) 

Sophocles

The Oedipus Cycle

Spahr, Juliana

Fuck You Aloha I Love You

 

Response

 

Spiderwasp, or Literary Criticism

Spicer, Jack

Collected Books

 

One Night Stand and Other Poems

Stein, Gertrude

"A Play in Circles"

 

"Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights"

 

"Four Saints in Three Acts" (& CD) 

 

"Mother of Us All" (&CD) 

 

"Play"

 

"Portraits and Repetition"

 

"What Happened: A Five Act Play"

 

A Novel of Thank You

 

Everybody's Autobiography

 

Lifting Belly

 

Tender Buttons

Sterne, Lawrence

Tristram Shandy

Stoppard, Tom

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"

 

Four Plays for Radio

Strauss, Botho

"Big and Little"

Strauss, Richard

Elektra (CD) 

 

Salome (CD) 

Stravinsky, Igor

The Rake's Progress (CD) 

Strindberg, August

"The Dream Play"

 

"Miss Julie"

 

"The Father"

 

"The Ghost Sonata"

Sundiata, Sekou

(CDs) 

Swift, Jonathan

A Tale of a Tub

 

Gulliver's Travels

Tardos, Anne

Uxudo

Themba, Can

The Will to Die

Tillman, Lynne

Madame Realism

Toomer, Jean

Cane

Torres, Edwin

Fractured Humorous

 

The Shock Worker

Tutuola, Amos

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Unrue, Jane

The House

Vicuna, Cecilia

Quipoem

 

The Precarious

 

Unravelling Words

Vogel, Paula

The Mammary Plays

Waldman, Anne

Marriage: A Sentence

Waldrop, Keith

Light While There Is Light

 

The Locality Principle

 

The Silhouette of the Bridge

Waldrop, Rosmarie

A Key Into the Language of America

 

Lawn of Excluded Middle

 

The Reproduction of Profiles

Wardrip-Fruin, Noah

The Impermanence Agent (online @ impermanenceagent.com) 

Wedekind, Frank

Pandora's Box

Weill, Kurt

Mahagonny (CD) 

 

The Seven Deadly Sins (CD) 

 

The Threepenny Opera (CD) 

Welish, Marjorie The Annotated "Here"

Wellman, Mac

"Cellophane" 

 

"Terminal Hip" 

 

"Whirligig"

 

"The Land of Fog and Whistles" 

West, Nathaniel

Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

Wiebe, Dallas

Skyblue's Essays

Wilde, Oscar

"Salome"

 

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Williams, Tennessee

"Suddenly Last Summer"

 

"The Glass Menagerie"

 

Collected Short Stories

Winterson, Jeanette

The Passion

 

Writing on the Body

Wittig, Monique

Les Guerilleres

 

The Lesbian Body

Wolf, Christa

Cassandra

 

No Place on Earth

 

The Quest for Christa T. 

Woolf, Virginia

Orlando

 

The Waves

Xue, Can

The Embroidered Shoes

Yaeggy, Fleur

Sweet Days of Discipline

Yamanaka, Lois Ann

Blu's Hanging

 

Saturday Night at the Pahala Theater

Yamashita, Karen Tei

Circle K Cycles

Zamaitin, Eugene

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