The Oxford Sojourn.

This page was originally something a lot less useful.

Now it is a running reading list. So much of what I’m doing here is caught up in the academic work I’m doing, so much of my experience can be ascertained from what I have been reading. I will include the plays I have seen, and I won’t include the secondary sources I’m reading (it will make the list less sexy). Here is what I have read thus far:

• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
• Macbeth
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• Shirly by Charlotte Bronte
• Coriolanus by Shakespeare
• An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestly
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Complete Works
• Richard II
• Henry V
• ‘The Decay of Lying’ by Oscar Wilde
• ‘The Critic as Artist’ by Oscar Wilde
• ‘De Profundis’ by Oscar Wilde
• Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
• A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
• Salome by Oscar Wilde
• An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
• ‘Men and Women’ by Robert Browning
• ‘Dramatis Personae’ by Robert Browning
• ‘The Ring and the Book’ by Robert Browning
• Othello
• Measure for Measure 
• The Major Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
• Pericles
• King Lear
• The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
• “Four Quarters” by T.S. Eliot
• Notable Poems by W.B. Yeats
• The Seagull by Anton Chekov
• Uncle Vania by Anton Chekov
• Three Sisters by Anton Chekov
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Selected poetry by Alexander Pushkin
• Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
• Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
• Endgame by Samuel Beckett
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
• The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
• North by Seamus Heaney
• Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
• The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
• Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
• Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard
• Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
• Fools of Time by Northrop Frye
• Hamlet
• Titus Andronicus
• ‘The Death of the Author’ by Roland Barthes
• ‘What is an Author?’ by Michel Foucault
• The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom
• King Lear
• ‘Differance’ by Jacques Derrida
• ‘Of Grammatology’ by Jacques Derrida
• The Duchess of Malfi
• Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
• The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault

Here is what I’m reading currently:

• King Lear (again)
• Course on General Linguistics by Ferdinand Saussure
• Le Pensee Sauvage by Claude Levi-Strauss