Summer Reading List (for Incoming Fall Ph.D. Students)

[lewisthesamteenth]

To say nothing of The Waste Land.  If ever there were a more appropriate quote for the application season than "April is the cruelest month," I've yet to find it.

Very well-played.

[DontHate]

February and March are also pretty damn cruel

[Vavasor]

Some Henrick Ibsen, some Elizabeth Gaskell, may dip into some of Robert Browning's more complicated poems. Probably a good deal of Hawthorne. Lots of Cambridge Companion Chapters, some articles from the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature, Mill's Utilitarianism, possibly some Strindberg. George Eliot's Felix Holt. John Ruskin's Praeterita. Probably Tourgenev's On the Eve, among other things.

[Porridge]

Frisk - Dennis Cooper

If game: Hogg - Delany.

[Two Espressos]

If game: Hogg - Delany.

 

I've always wanted to read this.

[Porridge]

I've always wanted to read this.

if you have an ereader PM me your email and I'll send you a copy.

[Taco Superior]

Doing Cultural Studies by David Walton (2012).

Edited February 20, 2013 by paulmilkesloones

[no_foam_cappuccino]

Ulysses by James Joyce.

Anyone have advice on approaching/ reading/ tackling/ wrestling with Ulysses?

I had a professor who told us that the first time you read it, pretend like you're in a hotel room, forgot a book and are desperate for reading material. Then you find this book called Ulysses in the nightstand. So that's what I did. I like this strategy because it releases you from the intense associations that come with reading ~~**ULYSSES**~~. Also I recommend flipping around. If you're curious about "Penelope," then skip to the end and read it. There's no reason you shouldn't indulge a little; that's all the indulgence you'll get out of the book your first read, after all. 

 

The second time I read it I read the Bloomsday Reader along with it. This allowed for a guided, more methodical approach, since I already had an exploratory one. 

[Gauche]

Ulysses by James Joyce.

Anyone have advice on approaching/ reading/ tackling/ wrestling with Ulysses?

 

Read it in Dublin. Joyce famously said that if Dublin were every destroyed, you could rebuild it through Ulysses. Alas, I don't have money to go to Ireland, but everyone I know who did study abroad said this was true.