READING LIST
Text I Suggest For The Masses
Over the course of the semester, I have been introduced and shown some amazing pieces of work that have helped me grow and entertained me as well. I hope you’ll go through this list and give some of the texts that I suggest a look. Go ahead and explore, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to learn more.
POST-COLONIAL
Fictional Text - "Midnights Children" by Salman Rushdie
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Poetic Text - "Answer" by Chinua Achebe
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Non-Fiction Text - "Speaking in Tongues" by Zadie Smith
Non-Text Text - "The Danger of a Single Story" Speech made by Chimamanda Adichie
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Text From Another Genre - "The Requerimento" by King Ferdinand
MODERN / POSTMODERN
Fiction Text - "White Noise" by Don DeLillo
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Poetic Text - "The Waste Land" by TS Eliot
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Non-Fiction Text - "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
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Non-Text Text - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fklOGFA5FN8 (this is postmodern because of the time period and because of what is happening)
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Text From Another Genre - "Flower Bomber" by Banksy
ROMANTIC / VICTORIAN
Fictional Text - "Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Bronte
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Poetic Text - "Among The Rocks" by Robert Browning
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Non-Fiction Text - "London Labour and the London Poor" by Henry Mayhew
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Non-Text Text - Achilles Sculpture by Richard Westmacott
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Text From Another Genre - "Oh! Them Golden Slippers" by James Bland
EARLY MODERN
Fictional Text - "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
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Poetic Text - "King Alfred" by John Fitchett
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Non - Fiction Text - "Hydriotaphia" by Thomas Browne
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Non - Text Text - Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
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Text From Another Genre - Little Short Songs to Three Voyces by Thomas East
MEDIEVAL
Fictional Text - "When Christ and His Saints Slept" by Sharon Kay Penman
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Poetic Text - Nibelungenlied
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Non - Fiction Text - "Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VII" by Karen Lindsey
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Non - Text Text - Winchester Bible
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Text From Another Genre - Te Deum (Church Hymn)