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Master of Arts: Literature Concentration

Master of Arts Writtern Exam

Reading List 

Author Text
Chaucer Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare King Lear, Hamlet
John Donne Poems
Milton Paradise Lost
Swift Gulliver's Travels
Pope Poems
Austen Pride and Prejudice
Shelley Frankenstein
Wordsworth Poems
Keats Poems
Brontë Jane Eyre
Dickens Great Expectations
Tennyson Poems
Conrad Heart of Darkness
Yeats Poems
Joyce Dubliners
Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Franklin Autobiography
Douglass

 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
An American Slave: Written by Himself
Melville Moby-Dick
Thoreau Walden
Dickinson Poems
Whitman Poems
James Portrait of a Lady
Eliot Poems
Williams Poems
Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Ellison Invisible Man
O'Neill Long Day's Journey Into Night
Rich Poems
Morrison Beloved
Erdrich Tracks
*the designation “Poems” indicates that the student should identify and prepare the poems of the author that are most discussed in the professional literature, anthologized and taught. Faculty members are willing to assist the student in identifying these poems.




 

 

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