Courses:

Babel, Isaac. The Collected Stories. Translated by David McDuff. London: Penguin, 1994.

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New York: Dover, 1990.

Conrad, Joseph. The Shadow-Line. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985, excerpt.

Faulkner, William. The Portable Faulkner. Edited by Malcolm Cowley. New York: Penguin Books, 1978.

Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.

Joyce, James. Dubliners. New York: Penguin Books, 1976.

Joyce, James. Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1986. (optional purchase)

Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories. New York: Dover, 1994.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

Thousands of books and essays have been devoted to the writers studied in this course.  The list below is highly selective, accessible to the general reader and includes some biographical and reference materials as well as interpretive works.

General studies

Alter, Robert. Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-conscious Genre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Translated by Willard R. Trask. 50th anniversary edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Ellmann, Richard, and Charles Feidelson, Jr., eds. The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Fogel, Daniel Mark. Covert Relations: Joyce, Woolf and Henry James. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.

Howe, Irving. A World More Attractive: A View of Modern Literature and Politics. New York: Horizon, 1963.

Howe, Irving, ed., Literary Modernism. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1967.

Kahler, Erich. The Inward Turn of Narrative. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1973.

Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Kiely, Robert. Beyond Egotism: The Fiction of Joyce, Woolf and Lawrence. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Orr, John. The Making of the Twentieth-century Novel: Lawrence, Joyce, Faulkner and Beyond. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Pearce, Richard. The Politics of Narration: Joyce, Faulkner and Woolf. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Sherry, Vincent B. The Great War and the Language of Modernism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Smitten, Jeffrey R., and Ann Daghistany, eds. Spatial Form in Narrative. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.

Weinstein, Arnold L. Vision and Response in Modern Fiction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974.

Babel

Bloom, Harold, ed. Isaac Babel: Modern Critical Views. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.

Ozick, Cynthia. Fame & Folly. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1996.

Conrad

Greaney, Michael. Conrad: Language and Narrative. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Guerard, Albert. Conrad the Novelist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Stape, J.H., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Thorburn, David. Conrad's Romanticism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.

Watt, Ian. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Faulkner

Brooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Howe, Irving. William Faulkner, A Critical Study. Revised ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.

Minter, David L. Faulkner's Questioning Narratives. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, 2001.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2002.

Weinstein, Philip M., ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Ford

Mizener, Arthur. The Saddest Story: A Biography of Ford Madox Ford. New York: World Pub. Co. 1971.

Moser, Thomas. The Life in the Fiction of Ford Madox Ford. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Sabol, Ruth C., and Todd K. Bender. A Concordance to Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. New York: Garland Pub., 1981.

Stang, Sondra J., ed. The Presence of Ford Madox Ford. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

Joyce

Blamires, Harry. The Bloomsday Book. London: Methuen, 1966.

Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1959.

Gifford, Don. Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Gross, John. James Joyce. New York: Viking Press, Modern Masters series, 1970.

Kenner, Hugh. Joyce's Voices. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

Seidel, Michael.  James Joyce: A Short Introduction.  Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

Thornton, Weldon. Allusions in Ulysses: A Line-by-Line Reference to Joyce's complex symbolism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.

Kafka

Greenberg, Martin. The Terror of Art: Kafka and Modern Literature. New York: Basic Books, 1968.

Preece, Julian, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (2002)

Rolleston, James, ed. A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002.

Kipling

Howe, Irving, ed. The Portable Kipling. New York: Viking Press, 1982.

Page, Norman. A Kipling Companion. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

Wilson, Angus. The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling, His Life and Works. New York: Viking Press, 1978.

Nabokov

Appel, Jr., Alfred. Nabokov's Dark Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Boyd, Brian. Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Woolf

Batchelor, John. Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Beja, Morris, ed. Critical Essays on Virginia Woolf. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.

DiBattista, Maria. Virginia Woolf's Major Novels. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.

Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. London: Chatto & Windus, 1996.

Naremore, James. The World Without a Self. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.

Roe, Sue, and Susan Sellers, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Rose, Phyllis. Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.