Shawn Huelle

what my summer looks like

Beginning tomorrow, and working M-F from 9-6, reserving Saturdays for spillage, and ending on September 14 when the four exams on the four following topics are due, I will be reading the following books:

The Novel (as self-conscious operation)

Primary Sources

  1. Cervantes—Don Quixote
  2. Defoe—Robinson Crusoe
  3. Richardson—Pamela
  4. Fielding—Shamela
  5. Sterne—Tristram Shandy
  6. Melville—Moby Dick
  7. Hawthorne—The Blithedale Romance
  8. Flaubert—Madame Bovary
  9. James—The Ambassadors
  10. Joyce—Ulysses
  11. Woolf—To the Lighthouse
  12. Dos Passos—The 42nd Parallel
  13. Faulkner—Absalom, Absalom!
  14. Beckett—Molloy
  15. Gaddis—The Recognitions
  16. Nabokov—Lolita
  17. Burroughs—Naked Lunch
  18. Cortázar—Hoptscotch
  19. Vonnegut—Slaughterhouse 5
  20. Pynchon—Gravity’s Rainbow
  21. Delillo—White Noise

Secondary Sources

  1. Auerbach—Mimesis
  2. Bakhtin—Dialogic Imagination
  3. Forster—Aspects of the Novel
  4. James—“The Art of Fiction”
  5. Lukacs—The Theory of the Novel
  6. McKeon—Origins of the English Novel
  7. Shklovsky—Theory of Prose
  8. Woolf—“Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown”
  9. Watt—Rise of the Novel
  10. Parlej—The Romantic Theory of the Novel

Modernism

Primary Sources

  1. Stevens, Wallace—The Palm at the End of the Mind
  2. Schulz, Bruno—Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
  3. Stein—How to Write
  4. Williams—Paterson
  5. Woolf—Mrs. Dalloway
  6. Faulkner—The Sound and the Fury
  7. Eliot—"The Waste Land"
  8. Joyce—Finnegans Wake
  9. Proust—Swann's Way (the Lydia Davis trans.)
  10. Beckett—Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape
  11. Mann—Death in Venice
  12. Fitzgerald—The Great Gatsby
  13. Kafka—The Complete Stories
  14. Brecht—Threepenny Opera
  15. Rilke—Sonnets to Orpheus
  16. Nietzsche—Beyond Good and Evil
  17. Capek, Karel—War With the Newts
  18. Gombrowicz, Witold—Ferdydurke
  19. Obrien, Flann—At Swim Two Birds

Secondary Sources

  1. Pound—ABC of Reading
  2. Woolf—Granite and Rainbow: Essays
  3. Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou—Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents
  4. Gombrowicz, Witold—A Kind of Testament
  5. Miłosz, Czesław—To Begin Where I am At: Selected Essays
  6. Williams—In The American Grain
  7. Bradbury & McFarlane—Modernism: 1890-1930

Fictional Reference Materials

Primary Sources

Dictionaries

  1. Flaubert—A Dictionary of Received Ideas
  2. Bierce—The Devil's Dictionary
  3. Foer, et al.—Future Dictionary of America
  4. Beachy-Quick, Dan—A Whaler's Dictionary
  5. Pigott, Charles—A Political Dictionary Explaining the True Meaning of Words
  6. Pavic, Milorad—Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel
  7. Adams, Douglas and John Lloyd—The Meaning of Liff

Encyclopedias

  1. Bryant, et al.—Encyclopedia Vol 1 A-E
  2. Melville—Chapter 32, “Cetology” in Moby Dick
  3. Bataille—Encyclopedia Acephalica
  4. Asimov, Issac—The Foundation Trilogy
  5. Bolaño, Roberto—Nazi Literature in the Americas
  6. Bolaño, Roberto—2666: Part 4: The Part About the Crimes
  7. Adams, Douglas—_The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

None of the Above but somehow both and more

  1. Nabokov, Vladimir—Pale Fire
  2. Hodgeman, John—The Areas of My Expertise
  3. Hodgeman, John—More Information Than You Require
  4. Cortazar—A Manual for Manuel
  5. Borges—The Garden of Forking Paths (which includes “Tlön, Uqbar, and Orbis Tertius” and “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”)
  6. Perec, Georges—“Think/Classify”

Secondary Sources

  1. Baudrillard, Jean (trans. Sheila Faria Glaser)—Simulacra and Simulation
  2. Genette, Gerard—Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation
  3. Pollack, Eileen—“Well Intentioned Frauds”
  4. Clark, Hilary—The Fictional Encyclopedia: Joyce, Pound, Sollers
  5. Bejoint, Henri—Tradition and Innovation in English Lexicography
  6. Adams, Michael—“DARE, History, and the Texture of the Entry”
  7. Doležel, Lubomír—“Truth and Authenticity in Narrative"
  8. Harshav, Benjamin—“Fictionality and Fields of Reference”
  9. Booth, Wayne—A Rhetoric of Irony

Robert Walser

Primary Sources

Novels

  1. Jakob Von Gunten
  2. The Assistant
  3. The Robber
  4. The Tanners

Story Collections

  1. Masquerade and Other Stories
  2. Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses (see also secondary sources)
  3. Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932
  4. Selected Stories
  5. The Review of Contemporary Fiction Robert Walser Number (see also secondary sources)

Secondary Sources

  1. Avery, George C.—Inquiry and Testament: A Study of the Novels and Short Prose of Robert Walser
  2. Bernofsky, Susan and Tom Whalen—The Review of Contemporary Fiction Robert Walser Number
  3. Cardinal, Agnes—The Figure of Paradox in the Work of Robert Walser
  4. Coetzee, J. M.—“Robert Walser” from Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
  5. Gass, William—foreword to Masquerade and Other Stories
  6. Hamburger, Michael Peter Leopold—“Miniaturist in Prose” from the TLS
  7. Sontag, Susan—foreword to Selected Stories
  8. Wain, Anthony—“The Kleiner Mann and Modern Times: From Fallada to Walser” from the Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
  9. Walser, Robert and Mark Harman—Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses
  10. Whalen, Tom—“Beneficient Irrelevancies: Robert Walser and The Robber”

Looks like fun, doesn't it. Wish me luck.