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Thursday, May 26, 2011

M.A. Sources for English Literature Entrance Exam

M.A. Sources for English Literature Entrance Exam (Recommended by Dr. Nikkhoo (
1. Main Sources
1 The Norton Anthology of English Literature (in 2 vols) Any Edition
2 The Norton Anthology of American Literature (in 2 vols) Any Edition
3 The Norton Anthology of Poetry Any Edition
4 The Oxford (Concise) Companion to English Literature(only for reference purpose) Margaret Drabble
5 A Glossary of Literary Terms M.H. Abrams
6 Literature Structure: Sound and Sense (in 3 vols) Laurence Perrine
7 Routledge History of Literature in English Carter and McRae
8 A Short History of Literary Criticism Vernon Hall
9 A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature Guerin, et al
10 Literary Theory: The Basics Hans Bertens
11 An Outline of English Literature Thornley
12 An Outline of American Literature Peter B High
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14 فرهنگ اصطلاحات نقد ادبی
A Survey of English Literature (in 2 vols, in English) دکتر مقدادی
Abjadian
2. Criticism and Theory
1 Literary Criticism Bressler
2 Literary Schools: A Reader Yeganeh
3 Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader David Lodge
4 The Theatre of the Absurd Martin Esslin
5 Novel and Novelists Harold Bloom
6 Drama and Dramatists Harold Bloom
7 The Modern Psychological Novel Leon Edel
8 An Introduction to English Novel Arnold Kettle
9 The Modern American Novel Malcolm Bradbury
10 The McGraw Hill Guide to English Literature, 2 vols Lawrence
11 Aspects of the Novel Edward Forster
12 Poetics Aristotle
13 Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms Chris Bladick
14 The Growth and Nature of Drama Clarke
15 Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide Lois Tyson
16 A Readers Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory Raman Selden
17 Literary Theory and Criticism Chris Baldick
18 Studying Literary Theory and Criticism Roger Webster
19 Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism Any Edition
20 درآمدی بر مدرنیسم در ادبیات دکتر نجومیان
21 درآمدی بر پست مدرنیسم در ادبیات دکتر نجومیان
22 سرچشمه پیدایش کمدی دکتر کوپال
23 ادبیات جهان در 50 مقاله دکتر منیری
3. Novels
1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
2 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
3 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
4 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
5 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
6 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
7 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
8 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
9 Brave New World Aldous Huxley
10 Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. H. Lawrence
11 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
13 Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
14 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
15 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
16 A Passage to India Edward Forster
17 The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles
18 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
19 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
20 1984 George Orwell
21 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Samuel Johnson
22 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
23 Lord of the Flies William Golding
24 Herzog – Saul Bellow-(سپندی بر آتش ) دکتر فرشید Bellow
25 Huckleberry Finn Mark Twin
4. Drama/Plays
1 The Homecoming Harold Pinter
2 The Room Harold Pinter
3 Everyman Anonymous
4 Los Vendidos Luis Valdez
5 Trifles Susan Glaspell
6 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
7 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekov
8 A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen
9 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
10 Saint Joan G. B. Shaw
11 Oedipus the King Sophocles
12 Jumpers Tom Stoppard
13 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
14 Miss Julie August Strindberg
15 The Hairy Ape- Long Days Journey into The Night Eugene O’Neil
16 Mourning Becomes Electra Eugene O’Neil
17 Look Back in Anger John Osborne
18 She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith
19 Doctor Faustus C. Marlowe
20 The Glass Menagerie TennesseeWilliams
21 A Streetcar Named Desire TennesseeWilliams
22 Hamlet Shakespeare
23 King Lear Shakespeare
24 Macbeth Shakespeare
25 Othello Shakespeare
26 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare
27 Buried Child Sam Shepard
5. Novellas and Short Stories
1 A Hunger Artist – The country Doctor Franz Kafka
2 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
3 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
4 A Rose for Emily- The Barn Burning William Faulkner
5 Young Goodman Brown N. Hawthorne
6 My Kinsman, Major Molineux N. Hawthorne
7 Seize the Day Saul Bellow
8 The Open Boat Stephen Crane
9 A Clean Well-Lighted Place- The Short happy Life of Francis Macamber Ernest Hemingway
10 Hills Like White Elephant The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
11 The Beast in the Jungle- The Red Thing Henry James
12 The Rocking-Horse Winner D. H. Lawrence
13 Everyday Use Alice Walker
14 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
15 The Cask of Amontillado- The Fall of The House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
16 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville
17 Araby; The Dead James Joyce
18 The Oxford Book of Short Stories Pritchett
19 The Guest Albert Camus
20 Civil Peace Chinua Achebe
21 Great American Short Stories Stegner
22 Rip Von Winkle Washington Irving
23 Benito Cereno Herman Melville
24 Classic American Short Stories
25 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twin
26 The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad
6. Poetry/Poems
1 “The Chimney Sweeper’’ William Blake
2 “The Tyger’’ William Blake
3 “London’’ William Blake
4 “My Last Duchess’’ Robert Browning
5 “Dover Beach’’ Matthew Arnold
6 “Musée des Beaux Arts’’ – The Shield of Achilles W. H. Auden
7 “She Walks in Beauty’’ Lord Byron
8 “Don Juan’’ Lord Byron
9 “The Canterbury Tales’’ Geoffrey Chaucer
10 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’’ S. T. Coleridge
11 “Kubla Khan’’ S. T. Coleridge
12 “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’’ John Donne
13 “Since there’s no help, come, let us kiss and part’’ Michael Drayton
14 “Absalom and Achitophel’’ John Dryden
15 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’’ T. S. Eliot
16 “Journey of the Magi’’ “The Waste Land’’ T. S. Eliot
17 The Hollow men T. S. Eliot
18 “Design’’- The Road not Taken Robert Frost
19 “Mending Wall’’- Stopping By woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
20 “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’’ Thomas Gray
21 “Neutral Tones’’ “Hap’’ Thomas Hardy
22 Miniver Cheevy E.A. Robinson
23 Richard Cory E.A. Robinson
24 “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time’’ Robert Herrick
25 “Pied Beauty’’ “Spring and Fall’’ G. M. Hopkins
26 “To an Athlete Dying Young’’ Houseman
27 “The Vanity of Human Wishes’’ Samuel Johnson
28 “La Bell Dame Sans Merci’’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn’’- Bright Star John Keats
29 “The Emperor” – “Ice Cream” Wallace Stevens
30 “Piers Plowman’’ William Langland
31 “Ars Poetica’’- You Andrew Marvell Archibald Macleish
32 “To His Coy Mistress’’ Andrew Marvell
33 “Paradise Lost’ “Lycidas’’ John Milton
34 “Mont Blanc” Shelly
35 “Dulce et Decorum Est’’ Wilfred Owen
36 “Daddy’’- “Metaphor” Sylvia Plath
37 “Mirror’’ Sylvia Plath
38 “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd’’ Sir Walter Raleigh
39 “Annabel Lee’’ Edgar Allen Poe
40 “The Raven’’ Edgar Allen Poe
41 “An Essay on Man’’-“The Rape of the Locke’’ Alexander Pope
42 “The Cantos Ezra Pound
43 Sonnets: 18, 55, 73, 75, 116, 130,71, 138 Shakespeare
44 “Ode to the West Wind’’ Percy Shelley
45 “Ozymandias’’ Percy Shelley
46 “The Faerie Queene’’ Edmund Spenser
47 “Anecdote of the Jar’’ Wallace Stevens
48 “The Lady of Shalott’’“Ulysses’’-“Crossing The bar” Tennyson
49 “The Lotos-Eaters’’ “Tears, Idle Tears’’ Tennyson
50 “Snake” D.H Lawrence
51 “Howl” Allen Ginsberg
52 “Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night’’ Dylan Thomas
53 “Fern Hill’’ Dylan Thomas
54 “Song of Myself’’ Walt Whitman
55 “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’’ Walt Whitman
56 “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways’’-“ The Solitary Reaper” Wordsworth
57 “The Tables Turned’’-“ Intimations of Immorality” Wordsworth
58 “The World Is Too Much with Us’’- I wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Wordsworth
59 “Leda and the Swan’’ “The Second Coming’’ W. B. Yeats
60 “Sailing to Byzantium’’-“Byzantium” W. B. Yeats
61 “What if a much of a which in a wind” E.E. Cummings
62 “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” E.E. Cummings
7. Essays, etc.
1 “A Modest Proposal’’ Jonathan Swift
2 “Civil Disobedience’’ H. D. Thoreau
3 “Nature’’ R. W. Emerson
4 “Self-Reliance’’ R. W. Emerson
5 “Tradition and the Individual Talent’’ T. S. Eliot
6 “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’’ Wordsworth
7 “The Preface to Shakespeare’’ Samuel Johnson
8 “The Quintessence of Ibsenism” G.B Shaw
9 “Of Studies” Francis Bacon
10 “On the Knocking At the Gate in Macbeth” De Quincey

8. Vocabulary
1 Webster Vocabulary Builder
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3 Word-power Made Easy;
Word-Formation
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