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The M.A. Exam Reading List
(Revised Spring 2001)
- Plato, The Republic (7 and 10), The Phaedrus
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Horace, Ars Poetica
- Longinus, On the Sublime
- Augustine, Confessions (Book 10), On
Christian Doctrine (Book 2)
- Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
- Dante, "Epistola a Cangrande"
- Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (first
three meditations)
- Leibniz, Monadology
- Schiller, Letters
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (preface
and intro), Critique of Judgment
(selections)
- Hegel, The Philosophy of History (intro),
Phenomenology of Spirit (preface, intro, Lordship
and Bondage)
- Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Marx, "Towards a Critique of Hegel's
Philosophy of Right," The German
Ideology (Part 1 on Feuerbach), Capital
Vol. 1 (sections on commodities, alienated
labor, and accumulation of capital)
- Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (chapters
1-18 including preface and intro), On the Genealogy
of Morals, "On Truth and Lying in an
Extramoral Sense"
- Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the
Present Time"
- Wilde, Preface to Dorian Gray
- Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
(Avon version of text: 128-253, 311-319, 340-344,
374-388), "Fetishism," "The
Uncanny," "On Narcissism,"
"Negations"
- Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual
Talent"
- Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
(parts 1 and 2)
- Lévi-Strauss, "The Science of the
Concrete" in The Savage Mind, "The
Structural Study of Myth"
- Benjamin, "The Storyteller," "The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction," "Theses on the
Philosophy of History"
- Brecht, "The Modern Theater is an Epic
Theater"
- Benveniste, "Nature of the Linguistic
Sign"
- Lukács, "Narrate and Describe"
- Jakobson, "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles"
- Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of
Art"
- Bakhtin, "Discourse on the Novel,"
Introduction to Rabelais and His World
- Gramsci, "Hegemony, Relations of Force,
Historical Bloc" (189-221) and "Popular
Culture" (363-379) in Gramsci Reader
- Adorno and Horkheimer, "Odysseus or Myth and
Enlightenment" from The Dialectic of
Enlightenment
- Lacan, "The Agency of the Letter in the
Unconscious," "The Mirror Stage,"
"The Signification of the Phallus"
- Fanon, Black Skins/White Masks
(excerpts), "On National Consciousness"
from The Wretched of the Earth
- Barthes, "The Death of the Author,"
"The Structuralist Activity"
- Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State
Apparatuses"
- Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play,"
"Differance"
- De Man, "The Resistance to Theory"
- Foucault, History of Sexuality Vol. 1,
"What is an Author?," "What is
Enlightenment?"
- Bourdieu, "Structure, Habitus, Power"
- Jameson, The Political Unconscious
(9-57)
- Lyotard, "Answering the Question: What is
Postmodernism?"
- Deleuze, "Nomad Thought" in The New
Nietzsche
- Anderson, Imagined Communities (chapters
1 and 3)
- Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology
(chapter 3)
- Kristeva, "Abjection"
- Irigaray, "Sexual Difference" from An
Ethics
- Butler, Gender Trouble (intro, chapter
1, conclusion)
- Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
- Bhabha, "Dissemination"
- Ngugi, "The Language of African
Literature"
- Said, Orientalism (intro)
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