REQUIRED READINGS

 Barnes, Djuna.  “Greenwhich Village As It Is.” (1916)

Cahan, Abraham.  Selected extracts from The Rise of David Levinsky.  (1917)

Conrad, Joseph.   The Secret Agent. (1907)

Dos Passos, John.  Manhattan Transfer.  (1925)

Fitzgerald, Scott.  Selected extracts from The Great Gatsby.  (1925)

Gold, Michael.  Selected extracts from Jews Without Money.  (1930)

Joyce, James.  Dubliners (1914) and selected extracts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses. (1922)

Mansfield, Katherine. “The Little Governess” (1915), “Pictures.” (1919)

Rhys, Jean.  Good Morning, Midnight. (1939)

Richardson, Dorothy.  Selected extracts from Pilgrimage. (1913-1935)

Roth, Henry.  Call it Sleep. (1934)

Sinclair, Upton.  Selected extracts from  The Jungle. (1906)

Smedley, Agnes.  “A Moving Picture of Shanghai.” (1929)

Toomer, Jean.   Selected extracts from  Cane.  (1923)

Woolf, Virginia.  The Waves. (1931)

Wright, Richard.  Native Son.  (1940)

FILMS

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

Berlin, Symphony of a City (Walther Ruttmann, 1927)

Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

SECONDARY READINGS

For the sake of our class discussions and individual reports, students will be assigned a selection of extracts from different critical works (copies may be purchased in advance at the photocopy service).  The following list indicates the bibliographical sources from which some of our selected readings will be extracted. Other relevant titles are also included here.

BOOKS

Balshaw, Maria and Liam Kennedy, eds.  Urban Space and Representation.  London: Pluto, 2000.

Begnal, Michael, ed.  Joyce and the City.  New York:  Syracuse UP,  2002. 

Bradbury, Malcolm and James MacFarlane.  Modernism.  London:  Penguin, 1991.

Brown Tindall, George and David E. Shi.  America: A Narrative Histor vol. 2.  New York: Norton, 1996.

Caws, Mary Ann, ed.  City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy and Film.    Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1991.

Clarke, Graham.  The American City.  New York: Helm, 1997.

Donald, James.  Imagining the Modern City.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1999.

Ford,  Madox Ford.  The Soul of London.  London: Everyman, 2001. 

Hurm, Gerd.  Fragmented Urban Images : the American City in Modern Fiction from Stephen Crane to Thomas Pynchon .  New York : Peter Lang, 1991

Henkin, David M.  City Reading.  New York: Columbia UP, 1998.

Källtorp, I. Elander and O. Ericsson, eds.  Cities in Transformation: Social and Symbolic Change of Urban Space.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.

Lehan, Richard. The City in Literature: an Intellectual and Cultural History.  Berkeley:  U of California P, 1998.

Lombardo, Patrizia.  Cities, Words and Images: From Poe to Scorsese.  Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Onega, Susana and John Stotesbury, eds.  London in Literature: Visionary Mappings of the Metropolis.  Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2002.

Pike, Burton.  Image of the City in Modern Literature.  New Jersey: Princeton, UP. 1981.

Rovira, J.C y José Ramón Navarro, eds.  Literatura y espacio urbano.  Alicante: Fundación CAM, 1993.

Schlör, Joachim.  Nights in the Big City.  London: Reaktion, 1998.

Sizemore, Christine Wick.  A Female Vision of the City.  Knoxville: The U of Tennessee P, 1989.

Spurr, David.  Joyce and the Scene of Modernity.  Gainesville: U of  Florida P, 2002.

Yoshinobu Hakutaniand Robert Butler.The City in African-American Literature. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson UP,1995.

JOURNALS

American Quarterly. Johns Hopkins

Comparative Literature Studies: Urbana: U of Illinois

James Joyce Quarterly. U of Tulsa

Journal of Modern Literature.  Philadelphia: Temple U

Modern Fiction Studies. Johns Hopkins

Modernism-Modernity. Johns Hopkins

PML A.  Modern Language Association of America

Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.  U of Tulsa

Studies in the Novel.  North Texas State University