#christoph von eschenbach

[aschenblumen]

Richard Strauss, Vier letzte Lieder (4. Im Abendrot). Texto de Joseph von Eichendorff. Christoph von Eschenbach, director René Fleming, soprano

Tritt her und lass sie schwirren,  bald ist es Schlafenszeit,  dass wir uns nicht verirren  In dieser Einsamkeit.  O weiter, stiller Friede!  So tief im Abendrot,  wie sind wir wandermüde-  ist dies etwa der Tod?

Ich habe viel an ihn gedacht, als ich diesen Liederzyklus gehört habe. Ich hoffe, es geht ihm gut.

[nobuyukikakigi]

ベルリン・コンツェルトハウス管弦楽団の福岡での演奏会を聴いて

シューマンのニ短調のヴァイオリン協奏曲の第一楽章は、別の世界へ開かれるように終わる。独奏ヴァイオリンが最後の和音を打ち込むと、管楽器の和音が中空に解き放たれるのだが、その響きは、ほの暗い情熱に駆り立てられながら救いを希うように続いてきた音楽のそれとはすでに異なった色調を示しながら、柔らかく広がっていた。そのなかから作曲家が天使に告げられたという第二楽章の主題が、温かく響いてくる。アクロス福岡のシンフォニーホールの舞台で、ベルリン・コンツェルトハウス管弦楽団のチェロ奏者、フーリデマン・ルートヴィヒがその旋律を心を込めて奏でていた。その姿は、七年ほど前にベルリンのコンツェルトハウスの舞台で献身的な演奏を繰り広げていた彼の姿と重なって見えた。 2016年の春から十か月ほど研究のためにベルリンに滞在していたが、そのあいだ、当時音楽監督を務めていたイヴァン・フィッシャーが指揮するコンツェルトハウ…

[queer-ragnelle]

Beginner’s Guide to Medieval Arthuriana

Just starting out at a loss for where to begin?

Here’s a guide for introductory Medieval texts and informational resources ordered from most newbie friendly to complex. Guidebooks and encyclopedias are listed last.

All PDFs link to my Google drive and can be found on my blog. This post will be updated as needed.

Pre-Existing Resources

Hi-Lo Arthuriana

♡ Loathly Lady Master Post ♡

Medieval Literature by Language

Retellings by Date

Films by Date

TV Shows by Date

Documentaries by Date

Arthurian Preservation Project

The Camelot Project

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Medieval Literature

Page (No Knowledge Required)

The Vulgate Cycle | Navigation Guide | Vulgate Reader

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

The Marriage of Sir Gawain

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

The Welsh Triads

Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

Squire (Base Knowledge Recommended)

The Mabinogion

Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes

King Artus | scan by @jewishlancelot

Morien

Knight (Extensive Knowledge Recommended)

The History of The King's of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth

Alliterative Morte

Here Be Dragons (Weird or Arthurian Adjacent)

The Crop-Eared Dog

Perceforest | A Perceforest Reader | PDF courtesy of @sickfreaksirkay

Wigalois | Vidvilt

Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, & Bisclarevet by Marie of France

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Grail Quest

Peredur (The Mabinogion)

The Story of the Grail + 4 Continuations by Chrétien de Troyes

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach

The Crown by Heinrich von dem Türlin (Diu Crône)

The High Book of The Grail (Perlesvaus)

The History of The Holy Grail (Vulgate)

The Quest for The Holy Grail Part I (Post-Vulgate)

The Quest for The Holy Grail Part II (Post-Vulgate)

Merlin and The Grail by Robert de Boron

The Legend of The Grail | PDF courtesy of @sickfreaksirkay

Lancelot Texts

Knight of The Cart by Chretien de Troyes

Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven

Spanish Lancelot Ballads

Gawain Texts

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

The Marriage of Sir Gawain

Sir Gawain and The Lady of Lys

The Knight of The Two Swords

The Turk and Sir Gawain

Perilous Graveyard | scan by @jewishlancelot

Tristan/Isolde Texts

Béroul & Les Folies

Prose Tristan (The Camelot Project)

Tristan and The Round Table (La Tavola Ritonda) | Italian Name Guide

The Romance of Tristan

Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg

Byelorussian Tristan

Educational/Informational Resources

Encyclopedias & Handbooks

Warriors of Arthur by John Matthews, Bob Stewart, & Richard Hook

The Arthurian Companion by Phyllis Ann Karr

The New Arthurian Encyclopedia by Norris J. Lacy

The Arthurian Handbook by Norris J. Lacy & Geoffrey Ashe

The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce

Essays & Guides

A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes edited by Joan Tasker & Norris J. Lacy

A Companion to Malory edited by Elizabeth Archibald

A Companion to The Lancelot-Grail Cycle edited by Carol Dover

Arthur in Welsh Medieval Literature by O. J. Padel

Diu Crône and The Medieval Arthurian Cycle by Neil Thomas

Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois: Intertextuality & Interpretation by Neil Thomas

The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac by Jessie Weston

The Legend of Sir Gawain by Jessie Weston

[gwendolynlerman]

Deutschribing Germany

Literature

Middle Ages (5th-15th centuries)

Medieval German literature can be divided into two periods: Old High German literature (8th-11th centuries) and Middle High German literature (12th-14th centuries). The only surviving works from the first period are the Hildebrandslied (Lay of Hildebrand), which is the earliest poetic text in German and tells of the tragic encounter in battle between a father and a son, and Muspilli, which deals with the fate of the soul after death and at the Last Judgment.

Middle High German literature saw a 60-year golden age known as mittelhochdeutsche Blütezeit, in which lyric poetry in the form of Minnesang—the German version of courtly love—blossomed thanks to poets such as Walther von der Vogelweide and Wolfram von Eschenbach. Another important genre during this time was epic poetry, of which the most famous example is the Nibelungenlied (The Song of the Nibelungs), which narrates the story of prince Siegfried and princess Kriemhild, among other characters.

Renaissance (15th-16th centuries)

Early New High German literature includes works such as Der Ring (The Ring) by Heinrich Wittenwiler, a 9,699-line satirical poem where each line is marked with red or green ink depending on the seriousness of the material, and Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools) by Sebastian Brant, a satirical allegory that contains the ship of fools trope.

Other important authors are satirist and poet Thomas Murner, humanist Sebastian Franck, and poets Johannes von Tepl and Oswald von Wolkenstein.

Baroque (16th-17th centuries)

The Baroque period is characterized by works that reflected the experiences of the Thirty Years’ War and tragedies (Trauerspiele) on Classical themes, the latter were written by authors such as Andreas Gryphius and Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein. The most famous work is Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus (Simplicius Simplicissimus) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, a picaresque novel that narrates the adventures of the naïve Simplicissimus.

Enlightenment (17th-18th centuries)

The most important writers of the Enlightenment are Christian Felix Weiße, Christoph Martin Wieland, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Johann Gottfried Herder.

The Age of Reason saw the emergence of two literary movements: Empfindsamkeit (sentimental style) and Sturm und Drang (storm and stress). The first one intended to express true and natural feelings and featured sudden mood changes. The latter movement was characterized by individual subjectivity and extremes of emotion in response to the rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment.

Weimar Classicism (18th-19th centuries)

The main drivers behind Weimar Classicism, which synthesized ideas from Classicism, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism, were Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

During this period, Schiller published Die Bürgschaft (The Pledge), a ballad based on the legend of Damon and Pythias found in the Latin Fabulae, and Don Karlos (Don Carlos), a historical tragedy about Carlos, Prince of Asturias, while Goethe wrote Egmont, a play heavily influenced by Shakespearean tragedy, and Faust, a tragic play in which the main character sells his soul to the devil that is considered the greatest work of German literature.

Romanticism (18th-19th centuries)

Important Romantic writers include E. T. A. Hoffmann, author of Der Sandmann (The Sandman), a short story based on the mythical character of said name that puts people to sleep by sprinkling sand on their eyes; Heinrich von Kleist, who wrote Das Kätchen von Heilbronn (The Little Catherine of Heilbronn), a drama set in Swabia in the Middle Ages; Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, author of Das Marmorbild (The Marble Statue), a novella about a man who struggles to choose between piety and a world of art, and Novalis, author of Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night), a collection of six poems.

Folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm became very popular during the Romantic period, as they represented a pure form of national literature and culture.

Biedermeier and Young Germany (19th century)

The Biedermeier period contrasts with the Romantic era and is best exemplified by poets Adelbert von Chamisso, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, and Wilhelm Müller.

Young Germany was a youth movement whose main proponents were Karl Gutzkow, Ludolf Wienbarg, and Theodor Mundt.

Realism and Naturalism (19th century)

The most representatives realist authors are Gustav Freytag, Theodor Fontane, and Theodor Storm, while Gerhart Hauptmann was the most important naturalist writer.

Weimar literature (20th century)

During the Weimar Republic, writers such as Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Mann, and Thomas Mann presented a bleak look at the world and the failure of politics and society.

Expressionism (20th century)

As a modernist movement, Expressionism presented the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it for emotional effect. Famous authors include novelists Alfred Döblin and Franz Kafka, playwrights Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser, and poets August Stramm and Else Lasker-Schüler.

Neue Sachlichkeit (20th century)

Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) arose as a reaction against expressionism and was characterized by its political perspective on reality and portrayal of dystopias in an emotionless reporting style, showing cynicism about humanity. Authors associated with this movement include Erich Kästner, Hans Fallada, and Irmgard Keun.

Nazi Germany (1933-1945)

During the Nazi regime, some authors went into exile, while others submitted to censorship. The former, who either were of Jewish ancestry or opposed the regime for political reasons, include writers Alice Rühle-Gerstel and Anna Seghers, playwright Bertolt Brecht, and poet and novelist Hermann Hesse/Emil Sinclair.

Those who stayed and engaged in inner emigration include writer Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, poet and essayist Gottfried Benn, writer Hans Blüher, and poet and novelist Ricarda Huch.

Post-war literature (20th century)

The most famous authors in West Germany were Edgar Hilsenrath, Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll, and Group 47, a group of participants in writers’ meetings invited by Hans Werner Richter.

East German writers include Christa Wolf, Heiner Müller, Reiner Kunze, and Sarah Kirsch.

Contemporary literature (21st century)

Fantasy and science fiction authors include Andreas Eschbach, Frank Schätzing, and Wolfgang Hohlbein. Some of the most important poets are Aldona Gustas, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Jürgen Becker. Thriller is best represented by Ingrid Noll. Fiction novelists include Herta Müller, Siegfried Lenz, and Wilhelm Genazino.

[lesser-known-composers]

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) - “Und ob die wolke", Der Freischütz

Jeanine De Bique

Christoph Eschenbach, +?

[mycstilleblog]

Die Corona-Falle oder: Politiker und Virologen bellen den falschen Baum an. Rezension der Broschüre von Peter F. Mayer

Die Corona-Falle oder: Politiker und Virologen bellen den falschen Baum an. Rezension der Broschüre von Peter F. Mayer

Vorbei das Jahr 2020 – ein wahrlich annus horribilis (Schreckliches Jahr). Aber der Schrecken noch längst nicht vorbei. Erstens wird uns das Corona-Virus noch weiter begleiten. Wir müssen weiterhin im Lockdown verharren. Sogar müssen wir befürchten, dass dieser über den 10. Januar hinaus weiter und weiter verlängert wird. Werden gar die Bundestagswahlen verschoben? „Kellt“ Angela Merkel auf…

[blrowanducks-blog]

A previously untrodden path led me indirectly to the mistletoe, so let's follow the path backwards to get back home.

From the Celtic languages there are several words or phrases for “Mistletoe”. In Scottish Gaelic the name which gives an indication of the high esteem the plant was held amongst the ancient Scots: Uil–ioc – means to make whole. Also used was - Draoidh-lus – Druid’s herb, and - Sùgh an Daraich - Juice, sap or the dearest of the Oak. In Irish, it is Drualus, which is “herb of the Druids”. In Welsh, it is uchelwydd. Uchel and translates as “high”. The New Welsh Dictionary by Christopher Davies says of mistletoe: “Uchelwydd. Planhigyn yn tyfu ar goed eraill ac iddo aeron gwyn.” “Mistletoe. A plant which grows on other trees and with it berries white.” In Brittany, it is called Herbe de la Croix, after an old legend that the cross was made from this wood, after which God punished it by changing it into a parasite. The juice of the berries bears a striking resemblance to semen and there is no doubt it was associated with a Druidic priesthood and that Lugus, the reincarnating god, lives in semidivine humans. His tree is the Oak from which the druids, parasitically and symbolically grew as the mistletoe, needing Lugus as their life blood, represented by the mystical white fluid of the berry, semen vitalis, the vital seed of rejuvenation of the kingdom.

It all started when i was exploring my roots in Southern Germany and its Celtic prehistory. Doing that sent me off to read Parsifal by Wolfram von Eschenbach, an 11th century Southern German poet. His Parsifal is none other than Lugh, the Gaulic Lugus. He bears all the characteristic in his search for the Grail, the content of which remains to be discovered but my guess it is similar to the white boddhicitta, or methods of awakening.

[schwarz-gerat]

Es war, als hätt' der Himmel, Die Erde still geküßt, Daß sie im Blütenschimmer Von ihm nur träumen müßt'. 

Die Luft ging durch die Felder, Die Ähren wogten sacht, Es rauschten leis die Wälder, So sternklar war die Nacht. 

Und meine Seele spannte Weit ihre Flügel aus, Flog durch die stillen Lande, Als flöge sie nach Haus.

(Joseph von Eichendorff)

[lornaslibrary]

Animals

Last week I asked you to recommend books based on the prompt animals. Here are all the books you recommended!! Some of these books feature animals, some of them have animals in the titles.

Bold = the books I’ve read * = the books I personally would recommend + = want to read/on my TBR

Watership Down, by Richard Adams *

The Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams *

The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander

The Thing About Jellyfish, by Benjamin Ali

The Invasion (Animorphs #1), by K.A. Applegate

Raptor Red, by Robert T. Bakker

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Silverhair (Mammoth #1), by Stephen Baxter 

The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle +

Angels and Insects, by A. S. Byatt

A Horse Called Wonder (Thoroughbred #1), by Joanna Campbell

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll *

Moon Chosen (Tales of the New World #1), by P.C. Cast

The Sight, by David Clement-Davies 

Fire Bringer, by David Clement-Davies

Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl 

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5), by Arthur Conan Doyle 

Krambambuli, by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler

The Skylark’s Song (The Skylark Saga #1), by J. M. Frey

Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson

The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudge

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame +

The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah

Black Foxes, by Sonya Hartnett

The Lord God Made Them All, by James Herriot

If Only They Could Talk, by James Herriot

The Hunt of the Unicorn, by C. C. Humphreys

Into the Wild (Warriors #1), by Erin Hunter

Redwall (Redwall #1), by Brian Jacques

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka

Pet Sematary, by Stephen King *

The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling

The Wolves, by Hann Hellmut Kirst

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert  

Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1), by Jay Kristoff *

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

Call of the Wild, by Jack London

The Mark of Zorro (Zorro #1), by Johnston McCulley

Deerskin, by Robin McKinley

Spindle’s End, by Robin McKinley

Chalice, by Robin McKinley

Blanca & Roja, by Anna-Marie McLemore

Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation, by Kyo Maclear

Daughter of the Forest, by Juliet Marillier

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel *

The Novice (Summoner #1), by Taran Matharu

Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh #1), by A. A. Milne

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be, by Farley Mowat

Animal Farm, by George Orwell +

Here, There Be Dragons (The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica #1), by James A. Owen

Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1), by Christopher Paolini

Flambards (Flambards #1), by K. M. Peyton

Fierce Kingdom, by Gin Phillips

Wild Magic (Immortals, #1), by Tamora Pierce

Trickster’s Choice (Daughter of the Lioness #1), by Tamora Pierce

The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter

The Unadulterated Cat, by Terry Pratchett

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1), by Philip Pullman *

An Enchantment of Ravens, by Margaret Rogerson

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5), by J. K. Rowling *

The Serpent’s Shadow (The Kane Chronicles #3), by Rick Riordan

Bambi, by Felix Salten +

Far-Seer (Quintaglio Ascension #1), by Robert J. Sawyer

The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends #1), by George Selden

Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell

Feathers and Gifts: A Heartwarming True Story, by P. J. Sheldon

Babe: The Gallant Pig, by Dick King Smith

The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians #1), by Dodie Smith +

The Green Ember (The Green Ember #1), by S.D. Smith

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1), by Maggie Stiefvater

The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater

The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire #1), by Tui T. Sutherland

The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #1), by Jessica Townsend

The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster #1), by Walter Wangerin Jr.

The Island of Dr Moreau, by H. G. Wells +

The Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White 

Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White *

Summer Lightning, by P. G. Wodehouse

The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries series #1), by Katherine Woodfine

Elsewhere, by Gabrielle Zevin 

If you recommended books but don’t see your recommendations here, feel free to message me and let me know I missed your post!!

Other Chain Recs Masterposts

[rllibrary]

Goals

A note on list:

Arranged in chronological order, from the ancient Greeks to 2018. They are basically grouped by nationality, era, and in some cases, theme or genre- the way they were grouped in the college courses that I had the pleasure to read some of them for. You can also find a scrambled version of the same list at goodreads.com/larmer, if you view the shelf called "english-majors-library" and set it to "infinite scroll" to view it all on one page.

A note on ISBN:

Below each title, I have included the ISBN (the number that begins with 978). Of course, that means that all you have to do is copy and paste that code into a search bar on whatever site you buy your books from (amazon.com, bookdepository.com, etc.), to find the edition that the list refers to.

Why did I do something as crazy as include the ISBN for each book? For one thing, some of these editions include introductions and essays that have helped me think about them more deeply, or think about them in new ways, which has allowed me to enjoy them more.

Perhaps more importantly, some of these ISBN's simply refer to the edition with the coolest cover. To me, there is something special about the look of a shelf where most of the books match, for example, a row of Penguin Classics. Or at least, when the spines of books by the same author match. When I was a kid, I read series. Now I feel that the best books ever written form their own series. It seems right that they should fit together physically, as well. The ISBN's are there just in case you feel the same way.

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Ancient Greeks

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Homer (Greek, c. 800 BCE)

- The Iliad (c. 760-10 BCE)

/ Fagles translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140445923

- The Odyssey (c. 750-00 BCE)

/ Fagles translation, Penguin Classics, 9780143039952

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Hesiod (Greek, c. 700 BCE)

- Works and Days (c. 700 BCE)

/ Stallings translation, Penguin Classics, 9780141197524

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Aeschylus (Greek, 525-426 BCE)

- Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

/ Vellacott translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140441123

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Sophocles (Greek, c. 497-406 BCE)

- The Three Theban Plays:

Antigone (c. 441 BCE)

Oedipus the King [aka Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus Rex] (c. 429 BCE)

Oedipus at Colonus (406 BCE)

/ Fagles translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140444254

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Plato (Greek, c. 428-348 BCE)

- The Republic (370 BCE)

/ Bloom translation, 9780465094080, or Rowe translation, Penguin Classics, 9780141442433

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Aristotle (Greek, 384-322 BCE)

- Nicomachean Ethics (340 BCE)

/ Beresford translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140455472

- Poetics (335 BCE)

/ Heath translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140446364, or Hutton translation, Norton Critical Editions, 9780393938869

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Ancient Romans

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Horace (Roman, 65-8 BCE)

- The Epistles

Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters] (20 BCE)

Epistularum liber secundus [Second Book of Letters] (14 BCE)

(Contains Ars Poetica [The Art of Poetry])

/ Ferry translation, 9780374528522

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Virgil (Roman, 70-19 BCE)

- The Aeneid (29-19 BCE)

/ Fagles translation, Penguin Classics, 9780143106296

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Ovid (Roman, 43 BCE- 18 CE)

- Metamorphoses (8 CE)

/ Raeburn translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140447897

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Ancient Eastern Classics

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Lao Tzu (Laozi) (Chinese, born 6th to 5th century BCE, died 531 BCE)

- Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) (6th century BCE)

/ Lau translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140441314, or Mitchell translation, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 9780061142666

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Anonymous (Indian)

- The Upanishads (800-400 BCE)

/ Mascaró translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140441635

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Anonymous (Indian)

- Bhagavad Gita (part of the Mahabharata) (5th-2nd century BCE)

/ Mascaró translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140449181, or Mitchell translation, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 9780609810347

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Buddhist Scriptures (3rd century BCE)

/ Lopez edit, Penguin Classics, 9780140447583

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Roots of Yoga

/ Mallinson and Singleton translation, Penguin Classics, 9780241253045

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Joseph Campbell, Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal / 9781608681099

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World Literature: The Middle Ages

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One Thousand and One Nights

(Arabic compilation of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales. Earliest known fragment dated to 9th century, first reference to title appears in 12th century)

- The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

/ Burton translation, Modern Library Classics, 9780812972146

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Snorri Sturluson (Icelandic, 1179-1241)

- The Prose Edda (1220)

/ Byock Translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140447552

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Chrétien de Troyes (French, 1135?-1185?)

- Arthurian Romances

/ Kibler and Carroll translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140445213

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Wolfram von Eschenbach (German, c. 1160/80 – c. 1220)

- Parzival

/ Hatto translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140443615

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Major English Authors I: Medieval to Renaissance

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[Note: I did not enjoy Beowulf or the Canterbury Tales, so I omitted them from this list]

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Thomas Malory (English, c. 1415-1471)

- Le Morte d'Arthur (completed 1469-70, published 1485)

/ Norton Critical Edition, 9780393974645

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Christopher Marlowe (English, 1564-93)

- Doctor Faustus (c. 1589, or c. 1593)

/ Norton Critical Edition, 9780393977547

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The Bible: Authorized King James Version (1611) 

/ Oxford World’s Classics, 9780199535941

See also:

- The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible, by Harold Bloom

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John Milton (English, 1608-74)

- Paradise Lost (1667)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140424393

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Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (English, 1564-1616)

Comedy:

- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-6)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396668

- The Merchant of Venice (1596-7)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396545

Tragedy:

- Romeo and Juliet (1595-6)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396477

- Julius Caesar (1599)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396538

- Hamlet (1600-1)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396507

- Othello (1604)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396514

- King Lear (1605)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396460

- Macbeth (1606)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396316

- Antony and Cleopatra (1606-7)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396293

Romance:

- The Tempest (1611)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141396309

See also:

- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom

/ Fourth Estate, 9780007292844

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World Literature: The "Aristocratic Age"

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Dante (Italian, 1265-1321)

- The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (1308-20)

/ Kirkpatrick translation, Penguin Classics, 9780141197494

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Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish, 1547-1616)

- Don Quixote (1605- Part 1, 1615- Part 2)

/ Grossman translation, Vintage Classics, 9780099469698

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, 1749-1832)

- The Sufferings of Young Werther (1774)

/ Corngold translation, Norton Critical Editions, 9780393935561

- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796)

/ ? [Notable for being the first Bildungsroman. Still waiting for a good translation.]

- Faust, Parts I (1808) and II (1832)

/ Arndt translation, Norton Critical Editions, 9780393972825

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Major English Authors II: Neoclassical to Romantic

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Paradise Lost (above) is probably the best and most influential work of the Neoclassical period, and Milton's Satan becomes both Blake's messiah and a foundation for the Byronic hero.

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William Blake (English, 1757-1827)

- Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-94)

/ Oxford Paperbacks, 9780192810892

- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93)

/ Oxford Paperbacks, 9780192811677

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George Gordon, Lord Byron (English, 1788-1824)

- Lord Byron: The Major Works

(See "Prometheus," Manfred, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Mazeppa, Don Juan) 

/ Oxford World’s Classics, 9780199537334

See also:

- Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler

/ Vintage, 9780679740858

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (English, 1792-1822)

- "Ozymandias" (1818)

- Prometheus Unbound (1820)

- Adonaïs (1821)

- A Defence of Poetry (1821)

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See also: Keats, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads

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Mary Shelley (English, 1797-1851)

- Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

/ Norton Critical Edition, 9780393927931

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Jane Austen

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Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817)

- Northanger Abbey (completed 1803, published 1818)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141439792

- Pride and Prejudice (1813)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141439518

- Emma (1815)

/ Penguin Classics, 978-0141439587

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Novel: Victorian

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Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870)

- David Copperfield (1849-50)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140439441

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Emily Brontë (English, 1818-48)

- Wuthering Heights (1847)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141439556

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George Eliot (English, 1819-80)

- The Mill on the Floss (1860)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141439624

- Middlemarch (1871-72)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141439549

- Daniel Deronda (1876)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140434279

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Thomas Hardy (English, 1840-1928)

- The Return of the Native (1878)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140435184

- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141439785

- Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) / Penguin Classics, 9780141439594 *

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Victorian Poetry

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (English, 1809-92)

- "The Lotos-Eaters" (1833)

- "Ulysses" (1833)

- "In Memoriam A.H.H." (1849) 

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Robert Browning (English, 1812-89)

- Selected Poems

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140437263

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Thomas Hardy, Selected Poems

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140436990

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W.B. Yeats (Irish, 1865-1939)

- "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" (1899)

See also (though mostly from the Modern era):

- The Collected Poems

/ Finneran edit, Scribner, 9780684807317

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Late Victorian-Edwardian Era/ Gothic and Grotesque/ Horror, Gender, and Sexuality/ Freud and Fiction

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E. T. A. Hoffmann (Prussian, 1776-1822)

- The Golden Pot and Other Tales

/ Robertson translation, Oxford World’s Classics, 9780199552474

"The Sandman" (1816)

See also: 

Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny"

- The Uncanny

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437476

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Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849)

- The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143039914

“Berenice”

“Ligeia”

“The Fall of the House of Usher”

“The Oval Portrait”

“The Black Cat”

“The Imp of the Perverse”

“William Wilson”

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See also:

- Jonathan Haidt, "The Divided Self" in The Happiness Hypothesis

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Sheridan Le Fanu (Irish, 1814-73)

- In a Glass Darkly

/ Oxford World’s Classics, 9780199537983

"Green Tea"

"Carmilla"

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Bram Stoker (Irish, 1847-1912)

- Dracula (1897)

/ Norton Critical Editions, 9780393970128

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Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish, 1850-94)

- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

/ Norton Critical Editions, 9780393974652

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Oscar Wilde (Irish, 1854-1900)

- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

/ Norton Critical Editions, 9780393696875

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Sigmund Freud (Austrian, 1856-1939)

- The Psychology of Love

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437469

"Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora)"

Three Essays on Sexual Theory

On the Sexual Theories of Children

"Contributions to the Psychology of Erotic Life"

‘A Child is being Beaten’

On Female Sexuality

[Note: I realize that Freud's theories are no longer considered accurate, but I enjoy his imagination. If you want to read about the psychology of love/sex from an evidence-based perspective, check out The Evolution of Desire, by David Buss]

- The Uncanny

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437476

Screen Memories

The Creative Writer and Daydreaming

Family Romances

Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood

The Uncanny

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Arthur Machen (Welsh, 1863-1947)

- "The Great God Pan" (1894)

(“Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language.” - Stephen King)

/ Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Oxford World’s Classics, 9780199538874

- Vernon Lee, "Dionea," also in the above collection

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Algernon Blackwood (English, 1869-1951)

- Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142180150

“The Insanity of Jones”

“The Glamour of the Snow”

“The Man Whom the Trees Loved”

“Ancient Sorceries”

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Daphne du Maurier (English, 1907-89)

- Rebecca (1937)

/ Virago Modern Classics, 9781844080380

- The Birds and Other Stories (1952)

/ Virago Modern Classics, 9781844080878

"The Birds"

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Robert Bloch (American, 1917-94)

- Psycho (1959)

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See also: Alfred Hitchcock's adaptations of the above, and more:

- Rebecca (1940)

- Rope (1948)

- Rear Window (1954)

- Vertigo (1958)

- Psycho (1959)

- The Birds (1963)

- Marnie (1964)

See also: 

- François Truffaut, Hitchcock

- Donald Spoto, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock  

More films with similar themes:

- Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)

- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

- Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

- The Twilight Zone (Original Series, 1959)

"Perchance to Dream" (Season 1, Episode 9)

"The Hitch-Hiker" (Season 1, Episode 16)

"Nightmare as a Child" (Season 1, Episode 29)

"A Stop at Willoughby" (Season 1, Episode 30)

"Long Distance Call" (Season 2, Episode 22)

"What's in the Box" (Season 5, Episode 24)

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American Literature: 19th Century, Pre-Civil War

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Washington Irving (American, 1783-1859)

- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143107538

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James Fenimore Cooper (American, 1789-1851)

- The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140390247

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (American, 1803-82)

- The Portable Emerson

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143107460

"The American Scholar" (1832)

"Self-Reliance" (1841)

"Compensation" (1841)

"The Over-Soul" (1841)

"Circles" (1841)

"The Poet" (1844)

"Experience" (1844)

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Henry David Thoreau (American, 1817-62)

- The Portable Thoreau

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143106500

"Civil Disobedience" (1849)

Walden (1854)

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Frederick Douglass (American, 1818-95)

- The Portable Frederick Douglass

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143106814

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)

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Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849)

- The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143039914

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, 1804-1864)

- Selected Tales and Sketches (1830-1850)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140390575

Selections of the selections:

"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832)

"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)

"Wakefield" (1835)

"The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)

"Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844)

A selection that is not included in the above volume:

"Feathertop" (1852)

- The Scarlet Letter (1850)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143107668

- The Marble Faun (1860)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140390773

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Herman Melville (American, 1819-91)

- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437247

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American Literature: 19th Century, Civil War and After

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Walt Whitman (American, 1819-92)

- Leaves of Grass and Other Writings

/ Norton Critical Editions, 9780393974966

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Emily Dickinson (American, 1830-96)

- The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

/ Little, Brown & Company, 9780316184137

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Mark Twain (American, 1835-1910)

- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143107330

- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143107323

- Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140434170

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Ambrose Bierce (American, 1842-circa 1914)

- Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: And Other Stories

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140437560

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Henry James (American, mostly writing in Britain, 1843-1916)

See Novel: Modern British, below.

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Kate Chopin (American, 1850-1904)

- The Awakening [1899] and Selected Stories

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437322

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Novel: Modern British

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Terry Eagleton, "What is a Novel?" in The English Novel: An Introduction

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Peter Childs, “Words, Words, Words: Modern, Modernism, Modernity”

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Thomas Hardy (English, 1840-1928)

- Jude the Obscure (1895)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140435382

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Henry James (American, mostly writing in Britain, 1843-1916)

Novels:

- What Maisie Knew (1897)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141441375

- The Ambassadors (1903)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141441320

Novellas:

- Daisy Miller (1878)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141441344

- The Turn of the Screw (1898)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141389752

See also:

James' short stories:

"The Jolly Corner" (also collected in the above volume)

"The Real Right Thing"

/ Collected in The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories: from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis, Edited by Kasia Boddy, Penguin Classics, 9780141194424

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Joseph Conrad (Polish-British, 1857-1924)

- Heart of Darkness (1899)

/ Norton Critical Edition, 9780393264869

- Lord Jim (1900)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141441610

- Nostromo (1904)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141441634

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E. M. Forster (English, 1879-1970)

- Howards End (1910)

/ Penguin Classics,  9780141182131

- A Passage to India (1924)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141441160

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James Joyce (Irish, 1882-1941)

- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

/ In The Portable James Joyce, which also includes the short story collection, Dubliners (1914), 9780140150308

- Ulysses (1922)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141182803

- Finnegans Wake (1939)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141183114

See also:

- Re Joyce, by Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange)

- James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study, by Stuart Gilbert

- A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, by Joseph Campbell (author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Power of Myth, etc.)

- Joyce’s Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake, by John Bishop

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D. H. Lawrence (English, 1885-1930)

- Sons and Lovers (1913)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141441443

- Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141441498

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Essays/Prefaces/Letters: Contexts for Course Novels

Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884)

http://virgil.org/dswo/courses/novel/james-fiction.pdf

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Thomas Hardy, Preface to the First Edition [of Jude the Obscure] (1895)

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Joseph Conrad, Preface to "The Nigger of the Narcissus” (1897)

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Thomas Hardy, Postscript [to Preface] (1912)

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Ford Madox Ford, “On Impressionism” (1913)

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D.H. Lawrence, Letter to Edward Garnett (1912)

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Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (1919)

---, "Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Brown" (1923)

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See also: Modernist Poetry:

W. B. Yeats (Irish, 1865-1939)

- The Collected Poems

/ Finneran edit, Scribner, 9780684807317

"The Second Coming" (1919)

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T. S. Eliot (American born British citizen, 1888-1965)

- The Waste Land and Other Poems

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437315

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915)

"The Waste Land" (1922)

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World Literature: 19th Century

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[Note: I have skipped Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Stendhal, and the Brothers Grimm. Furthermore, 19th Century Russian Literature gets its own section, as well as American and British.]

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E. T. A. Hoffmann (Prussian, 1776-1822)

- The Golden Pot and Other Tales

/ Robertson translation, Oxford World’s Classics, 9780199552474

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Victor Hugo (French, 1802-85)

- Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)

/ Sturrock translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140443530

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Arthur Rimbaud (French, 1854-91]

- Selected Poems and Letters

/ Harding and Sturrock translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140448023

See also: Bruce Duffy, Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud

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Guy de Maupassant (French, 1850-93)

- A Parisian Affair and Other Stories (1880-90)

/ Miles translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140448122

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Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian, 1828-1906)

- A Doll's House and Other Plays

/ Dawkin and Skuggevik translation, Penguin Classics, 9780141194561

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Friedrich Nietzsche (German, 1844-1900)

- The Birth of Tragedy (1872)

/ Whiteside translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140433395

- The Gay Science (1882)

/ Hill Translation (as The Joyful Science), Penguin Classics, 9780141195391

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

/ Hollingdale translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140441185

- Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

/ Hollingdale translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140449235

- On the Genealogy of Morals (1887)

/ Scarpitti translation, Penguin Classics, 9780141195377

- The Will to Power (Posthumously Collected Manuscripts)

/ Hill and Scarpitti translation, Penguin Classics, 9780141195353

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Russian Literature: 19th Century

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Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian, 1821-81)

- Notes from Underground (1864)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Vintage International, 9780679734529

- Crime and Punishment (1866)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Vintage International, 9780679734505

- The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, FSG, 9780374528379

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Leo Tolstoy (Russian, 1828-1910)

Fiction

- War and Peace (1869)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Vintage, 9781400079988

- Anna Karenina (1877)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140449174

Nonfiction

- What is Art? (1897)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140446425

- Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy

/ Parini edit, Penguin Classics, 9780141191195

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Anton Chekhov (Russian, 1860-1904)

- Selected Stories (1883-1903)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Modern Library, 9780553381009

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World Literature: 20th Century 

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[Note: 20th Century Japanese Literature gets its own section, as well as American and British]

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Boris Pasternak (Russian, 1890-1960)

- Doctor Zhivago (1957)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Vintage International, 9780307390950

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Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian, 1891-1940)

- The Master and Margarita (written 1928-40, published 1967)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Penguin Classics Deluxe,

9780143108276

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Thomas Mann (German, 1875-1955)

- The Magic Mountain (1924)

/ Woods translation, Vintage International, 9780679772873

- Doctor Faustus (1947)

/ Woods translation, Vintage International, 9780375701160

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Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss, 1877-1962)

- Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)

/ Molinaro translation, Picador, 9780312421670

- The Glass Bead Game (1943)

/ Winston and Winston translation, Picador, 9780312278496

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Franz Kafka (Austro-Hungarian, now Czech Republic, 1883-1924)

- The Trial (written 1914-5, published 1925)

/ Muir and Muir translation, Schocken, 9780805210408

- The Castle (written 1922, published 1926)

/ Muir and Muir translation, Schocken, 9780805210392

- The Complete Short Stories (1908-24)

/ Muir and Muir translation, Schocken, 9780805210552

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Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian, 1927-2014)

- Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

/ Grossman translation, Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141189208

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History of Literary Criticism and Theory

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See above courses for Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Ars Poetica, Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the essays, prefaces, and letters that comprise the contexts for the Modern British Novel course.

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Northrop Frye (Canadian, 1912-91)

- "The Archetypes of Literature" (1951)

- Anatomy of Criticism (1957)

/ Princeton University Press, 9780691069999

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Harold Bloom (American, 1930- )

- The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (1973)

/ Oxford University Press, 9780195112214

(Further reading by Harold Bloom listed at the end of this section)

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- I will not list the readings for the entire History of Literary Criticism and Theory. The works listed above are the essentials that still hold up today.

I have omitted what Harold Bloom dismisses as the "School of Resentment" in his book, The Western Canon.

Bloom points out the problem with reading a text in terms of whatever ideology one wishes to impose on it (Feminist, Marxist, Lacanian, New Historicist, Deconstructionist, Semiotician, etc.), rather than simply reading in order to "confront greatness." For example, if we read Hamlet through a feminist or Marxist lens, we may end up with insights about feminism or Marxism, but not necessarily about Hamlet (source: the book, The Western Canon, as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom).

Bloom suspects that people do not simply value classics due to social conditioning. To read more about how human behavior and values come from human nature, and not from social conditioning, here is the definitive book on the subject:

- Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

/ Penguin, 9780142003343

See also:

- Steven Pinker, "Toward a Consilient Study of Literature"

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- John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, "Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics"

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- Joseph Carroll, Literary Darwinism

/ Routledge, 9780415970143

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- Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal 

/ Mariner, 9780544002340

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- Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism

/ Ockham's Razor, 9780983258407

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Louise M. Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory has been most informative to my understanding of what reading consists of.

Louise M. Rosenblatt (American, 1904-2005)

- Literature as Exploration (1938)

/ [Out of print?]

- The Reader, The Text, The Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work (1978, 1994)

/ Southern Illinois University Press, 9780809318056

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This brief article by Saul Bellow has also been enlightening for me:

"The Search for Symbols, a Writer Warns, Misses All the Fun and Fact of the Story"

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-symbol.html

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Harold Bloom, continued:

- The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994)

/ Little, Brown & Company, 9781573225144

- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998)

/ Fourth Estate, 9780007292844

- Novelists and Novels: A Collection of Critical Essays (2007)

/ Chelsea House, 9780791097274

- The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible (2011)

/ Yale University Press, 9780300187946

- The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (2011)

/ Yale University Press, 9780300181449

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Composition

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Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

/ Penguin, 9780143127796

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Creative Writing

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John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers / Vintage, 9780679734031

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Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces

/ Yogi Impressions, 9789382742616

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Alice LaPlante, The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing

/ W. W. Norton and Company, 9780393337082

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Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

/ W. W. Norton and Company, 9780393316544

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American Short Story, 20th Century

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Sherwood Anderson (American, 1876-1941)

- Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140186550

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Ernest Hemingway (American, 1899-1961)

- The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories with a Brief Preface by the Author

/ Scribner, 9780684803340

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John Cheever (American, 1912-82)

- Collected Stories

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099748304

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Bernard Malamud (American, 1914-86)

- The Complete Stories (written 1940-84, collected 1997)

/ FSG Classics, 9780374525750

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Saul Bellow (Canadian-American, 1915-2005)

- Collected Stories (2001)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143107255

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Carson McCullers (American, 1917-67)

- The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951 novella along with previously published short stories)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141183695

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J. D. Salinger (American, 1919-2010)

- Nine Stories (1953)

/ Little, Brown and Company, 9780316767729

- Franny and Zooey (1961)

/ Back Bay Books, 9780316769020

- Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)

/ Back Bay Books, 9780316766944

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James Baldwin (American, 1924-87)

- “Sonny’s Blues” (1957)

Collected in several anthologies. I have not read them all, but I would probably recommend:

- American Short Story Masterpieces, edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks

/ 9780440204237

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Flannery O'Connor (American, 1925-64)

- The Complete Stories (1971)

/ FSG Classics, 9780374515362

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Philip Roth (American, 1933-2018)

- Goodbye, Columbus (1959)

/ Vintage, 9780679748267

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Joyce Carol Oates (American, 1938- )

- "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1966)

Collected in several anthologies. I have not read them all, but I would probably recommend:

- American Short Story Masterpieces, edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks

/ 9780440204237

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Raymond Carver (American, 1938-88)

- Where I’m Calling From: Selected Stories (1988)

/ Harvill Press, 9781860460395

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Tobias Wolff (American, 1945- )

- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories (1981)

/ Ecco, 9780062393845

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Louise Erdrich (Native American, 1954- )

- Love Medicine (1984)

/ Harper Perennial, 9780061787423

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Stephanie Vaughn (American, ?- )

- Sweet Talk: Stories (1990)

/ Other Press, 9781590515167

"Dog Heaven"

(Also collected in the Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, edited by Tobias Wolff, 9780679745136]

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American Novel, 20th Century to Present

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (American, 1896-1940)

- The Great Gatsby (1925)

/ Scribner, 9780743273565

- Tender is the Night (1934)

/ Scribner, 9780684801544

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William Faulkner (American, 1897-1962)

- The Sound and the Fury (1929)

/ Norton Critical Editions, 9780393912692

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Nathanael West (American, 1903-40)

- Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)

- The Day of the Locust (1939)

/ Both of these novels are collected in Vintage Classics, 9780099573166

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Zora Neale Hurston (American, 1891-1960)

- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

/ Virago, 9780860685241

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Betty Smith (American, 1896-1972)

- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)

/ Harper Perennial, 9780060736262

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John Steinbeck (American, 1902-68)

- Of Mice and Men (1937)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140186420

- The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143039433

- East of Eden (1952)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140186390

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Ralph Ellison (American, 1913-94)

- Invisible Man (1952)

/ Vintage, 9780679732761

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Vladimir Nabokov (Russian-American, 1899-1977)

- Lolita (1955)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, The Annotated Lolita, 9780141185040

- Pale Fire (1962)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141185262

See also:

Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery, by Brian Boyd

/ Princeton University Press, 9780691089577

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Saul Bellow (Canadian-American, 1915-2005)

Novels (selected):

- The Adventures of Augie March (1953)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143039570

- Seize the Day (1956)

Penguin Classics, 9780142437612

- Henderson the Rain King (1959)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143105480

- Herzog (1964)

/ Penguin Classics Deluxe, 9780143107675

- Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437834

- Humboldt’s Gift (1975)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143105473

- Ravelstein (2000)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143107576

Non-fiction:

- It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future (1994)

/ Penguin Classics, 978-0143106685

"Facts That Put Fancy to Flight" (1962)

The above article is available on the New York Times archive here:

"A Novelist-Critic Discusses the Role of Reality in the Creation of Fiction"

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-reality.html

- There is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction, edited by Benjamin Taylor

/ Penguin, 978-0143108047

"Deep Readers of the World, Beware!"

The above article is available on the New York Times archive here: 

"The Search for Symbols, a Writer Warns, Misses All the Fun and Fact of the Story"

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-symbol.html

See also:

- The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964, by Zachary Leader

/ Vintage, 9780307388933

- The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005, by Zachary Leader

/ Vintage, 9780099598152

*

Carson McCullers (American, 1917-67)

- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141185224

*

J. D. Salinger (American, 1919-2010)

- The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

/ Back Bay Books, 9780316769174

See also:

Salinger, by David Shields and Shane Salerno

/ Simon & Schuster, 9781471130380

*

Kurt Vonnegut (American, 1922-2007)

- Cat’s Cradle (1963)

/ Dial Press, 9780385333481

- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

/ Dial Press, 9780385333849

*

William Gaddis (American, 1922-98)

- The Recognitions (1955)

/ [Out of print?]

- JR (1975)

/ [Out of print?]

See also: 

- Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis, by Joseph Tabbi

/ Northwestern University Press, 9780810131422

*

Joseph Heller (American, 1923-99)

- Catch-22 (1961)

/ 50th Anniversary Edition, Simon & Schuster, 9781451626650

*

Richard Yates (American, 1926-92)

- Revolutionary Road (1961)

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099518624

*

Toni Morrison (American, 1931-2019)

- The Bluest Eye (1970)

/ Vintage International, 9780307278449

- Song of Solomon (1977)

/ Vintage International, 9781400033423

*

John Updike (American, 1932-2009)

- Rabbit, Run (1960)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141187839

- Rabbit Redux (1971)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141188546

- Rabbit is Rich (1981)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141188553

- Rabbit at Rest (1990)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141188447

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Philip Roth (American, 1933-2018)

- Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)

/ Vintage International, 9780679756453

- The Human Stain (2000)

/ Vintage International, 9780375726347

*

Cormac McCarthy (American, 1933- )

- Blood Meridian (1985)

/ Vintage International, 9780679728757

- The Road (2006)

/ Vintage International, 9780307387899

*

Ken Kesey (American, 1935-2001)

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141181226

- Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143039860

*

Don DeLillo (American, 1936- )

- White Noise (1985)

/ Penguin, 9780140077025

- Libra (1988)

/ Penguin, 9780140156041

- Mao II (1992)

/ Penguin, 9780140152746

- Underworld (1998)

/ Scribner, 9780684848150

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Thomas Pynchon (American, 1937- )

- V. (1963)

/ Harper Perennial, 9780060930219

- Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099511755

- Mason & Dixon (1997)

/ Picador, 9780312423209

See also: 

- A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel, 2nd Edition, by Steven Weisenburger

/ University of Georgia Press, 9780820328072

Note:

Pynchon dedicated G’s R to Richard Fariña - see below:

*

Richard Fariña (American, 1937-66)

- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780140189308

*

John Kennedy Toole (American, 1937-69)

- A Confederacy of Dunces (completed 1964, published 1980)

/ Grove Press, 9780802130204

*

Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo, 1948- )

- Ceremony (1977)

/ Penguin Classics Deluxe, 9780143104919

*

Louise Erdrich (Native American, 1954- )

- The Plague of Doves (2008)

/ Harper Perennial, 9780060515133

- The Round House (2012)

/ Harper Perennial, 9780062065254

*

David Foster Wallace (American, 1962-2008)

- Infinite Jest (1996)

/ Back Bay Books, 9780316066525

- The Pale King (unfinished, published 2011)

/ Back Bay Books, 9780316074223

See also:

- Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, by Greg Carlisle

/ SSMG Press, 978-0976146537

- Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, by D. T. Max

/ Penguin, 9780147509727

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Peter Hedges (American, 1962- )

- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1991)

/ Simon & Schuster, 9780671038540

*

Jennifer Egan (American, 1962- )

- A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)

/ Anchor Books, 9780307477477

- Manhattan Beach (2017)

/ Scribner, 9781476716749

*

*

American Poetry, 20th Century

*

Robert Frost (American, 1874-1963)

- The Collected Poems

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099583097

*

Robinson Jeffers (American, 1887-1962)

- The Selected Poetry

/ Stanford University Press, 9780804741088

*

John Berryman (American, 1914-72)

- The Dream Songs (1969)

/ FSG Classics, 9780374534554

- Collected Poems, 1937-1971

/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9780374522810

*

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited by Rita Dove

/ Penguin, 9780143121480

Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool," "The Bean Eaters"

Stephen Dobyns, "How to Like it"

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*

Contemporary British Fiction

*

Graham Greene (English, 1904-91)

- Complete Short Stories 

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143039105

"The Destructors" (1954)

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Samuel Beckett (Irish, 1906-89)

- More Pricks than Kicks (1934)

/ Grove Press, 9780802151377

"Dante and the Lobster"

- Three Novels

/ Grove Press, 9780802144478

1. Molloy (1951)

2. Malone Dies (1951)

3. The Unnameable (1953)

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Malcolm Lowry (English, 1909-57)

- Under the Volcano (1947)

/ Harper Perennial, 9780061120152

*

Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan) (Irish, 1911-66)

- The Third Policeman (completed in 1940, published in 1967)

/ Dalkey Archive Press, 9781564782144

*

Iris Murdoch (Anglo-Irish, 1919-99)

- Under the Net (1954)

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099429074

- The Bell (1958)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141186696

- The Black Prince (1973)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142180112

- The Sea, The Sea (1978)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141186160

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Alan Sillitoe (English, 1928-2010)

- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)

/ Vintage International, 9780307389640

"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner"

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Angela Carter (English, 1940-92)

- The Magic Toyshop (1967)

/ Virago, 9780860681908

- The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141192390

- Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories (1962-93)

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099592914

“The Bloody Chamber”

“The Courtship of Mr Lyon”

“The Tiger’s Bride”

“The Erl-King”

“The Snow Child”

“The Lady of the House of Love”

“The Werewolf”

“The Company of Wolves”

“Wolf Alice”

"A Souvenir of Japan"

*

J. G. Ballard (English, 1930-2009)

- The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)

- Super-Cannes (2000)

*

Salman Rushdie (British Indian, 1947- )

- The Satanic Verses (1988)

*

Ian McEwan (English, 1948- )

- In Between the Sheets (Short story collection) (1978)

/ Vintage, 9780099754718

- Atonement (novel) (2001)

/ Vintage, 9780099429791

*

Iain Banks (Scottish, 1954-2013)

- The Wasp Factory (1984)

/ Prentice Hall, 9780684853154

*

Hanif Kureishi (British, 1954- )

- The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

/ Penguin, 9780140131680

*

Kazuo Ishiguro (British, 1954- )

- An Artist of the Floating World (1986)

/ Faber & Faber, 9780571209132

- Never Let Me Go (2005)

/ Faber & Faber, 9780571272136

- The Buried Giant (2015)

/ Faber & Faber, 9780571315062

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Jeanette Winterson (English, 1959- )

- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

*

Films:

- Star Trek: The Original Series

"Arena" (Season 1, Episode 18)

"Turnabout Intruder" (Season 3, Episode 24)

*

*

Canadian Literature: 20th Century

*

Robertson Davies (Canadian, 1913-95)

- The Deptford Trilogy

1. Fifth Business (1970)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141186153

2. The Manticore (1972)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143039136

3. World of Wonders (1975)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780143039143

*

Alice Munro (Canadian, 1931- )

- A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994

/ Vintage International, 9781101970362

- Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014

/ Vintage International, 9781101872352

*

*

Theater, 20th Century

*

Eugene O'Neill (American, 1888-1953)

- The Iceman Cometh (written 1939, first performed 1946)

/ Introduction by Harold Bloom, Yale University Press, 9780300117431

- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (written 1941, first performed 1956)

/ Introduction by Harold Bloom, Yale University Press, 9780300093056

*

Jean-Paul Sartre (French, 1905-80)

- No Exit and Three Other Plays (1944-48)

/ Gilbert translation, Vintage International, 9780679725169

No Exit

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Samuel Beckett (Irish, 1906-89)

- Waiting for Godot (1959)

/ Grove Press, 9780802144423

- Happy Days (1961)

/ Grove Press, 9780802144409

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Tennessee Williams (American, 1911-83)

- The Glass Menagerie (1944)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141190266

- A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141190273

- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141190280

*

Arthur Miller (American, 1915-2005)

- Death of a Salesman (1949)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141180977

- The Crucible (1953)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437339

*

Edward Albee (American, 1928-2016)

- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099285694

*

Sam Shepard (American, 1943- )

Sam Shepard: Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The

Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West) (1984)

/ Dial Press, 9780553346114

Shepard is also an actor- Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983 adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book of the same title), and Robert Rayburn aka “Papa Ray” in the 2015 Netflix series, Bloodline

*

Films:

- A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951)

- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)

- Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) (Screenplay by Sam Shepard)

- Death of a Salesman (Volker Schlöndorff, 1985)

- The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner, 1996)

- Happy Days (Patricia Rozema, 2001)

*

*

Science Fiction/ Dystopian/ Philosophical

H. G. Wells (English, 1866-1946)

- The Time Machine (1895)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141439976

*

Aldous Huxley (English, 1894-1963)

- Brave New World (1932)

/ Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 9780060776091

- Island (1962)

/ Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 9780061561795

*

George Orwell (English, 1903-50)

- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780241416419

*

John Wyndham (English, 1903-69)

- The Chrysalids (1955)

/ Penguin Modern Classics, 9780141181479

*

Albert Camus (French, 1913-60)

- The Stranger (1942)

/ Ward translation, Vintage International, 9780679720201

*

Osamu Dazai (Japanese, 1909-48)

- No Longer Human (1948)

/ Keene translation, New Directions, 9780811204811

*

William Golding (English, 1911-93)

- Lord of the Flies (1954)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780399533372

*

Anthony Burgess (English, 1917-93)

- A Clockwork Orange (1962)

/ Norton Critical Edition, 9780393928099

*

Yukio Mishima (Japanese, 1925-1970)

- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (1963)

/ Nathan translation, Vintage Classics, 9780099284796

*

Frank Herbert (American, 1920-86)

- The Great Dune Trilogy

/ Orion Pub. Co., 9780575070707

- Dune (1965)

- Dune Messiah (1969)

- Children of Dune (1976)

*

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian, 1925-91 and 1933-2012, respectively)

- Roadside Picnic (1971)

/ Bormashenko translation, Chicago Review Press, 9781613743416

*

Robert M. Pirsig (American, 1928-2017)

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974)

/ 40th Anniversery Edition, Vintage, 9780099598169

*

Alan Moore (English, 1953- )

- Watchmen (1987)

/ DC, 9781401245252

*

More philosophical novels (Listed in other sections above):

- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142437247

*

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Vintage International, 9780679734505

*

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, FSG, 9780374528379

*

- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Penguin Classics, 9780140449174

*

- George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-72)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780141439549

*

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

/ Norton Critical Editions, 9780393696875

*

- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924)

/ Woods translation, Vintage International, 9780679772873

*

- Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)

/ Molinaro translation, Picador, 9780312421670

*

- Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (1943)

/ Winston and Winston translation, Vintage Classics, 9780099283621

*

- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (written 1928-40, published 1967)

/ Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Penguin Classics Deluxe, 9780143108276

*

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

/ Back Bay Books, 9780316769174

*

- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

/ Vintage, 978-0679732761

*

- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (1963)

/ Dial Press, 9780385333481

*

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

/ Dial Press, 9780385333849

*

- Saul Bellow, Herzog (1964)

/ Penguin Classics Deluxe, 9780143107675

*

- Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince (1973)

/ Penguin Classics, 9780142180112

*

- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985)

/ Vintage International, 9780679728757

*

- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)

/ Back Bay Books, 9780316066525

*

Films:

- The Time Machine (George Pal, 1960)

- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

- Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, 1976)

- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)

- Stalker (Screenplay loosely adapted from Roadside Picnic by the authors, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

- The Matrix (Wachowskis, 1999)

- The Twilight Zone (Original Series, 1959)

"The Obsolete Man" (Season 2, Episode 29)

"It's a Good Life" (Season 3, Episode 8)

"Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" (Season 5, Episode 17)

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*

Japanese Literature: 20th Century to Present

*

Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916)

- Botchan (1906)

/ Cohn translation, Penguin Classics, 9780141391885

- Sanshirō (1908)

/ Rubin translation with introduction by Haruki Murakami, Penguin Classics, 9780140455625

- Kokoro (1914)

/ McKinney translation, Penguin Classics, 9780143106036

*

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)

- Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (1914-27)

/ Jay Rubin translation with introduction by Haruki Murakami, Penguin Classics, 9780140449709

*

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965)

- Seven Japanese Tales (1910-59)

/ Vintage International, 9780679761075

- Naomi (1924)

/ Vintage International, 9780375724749

- Quicksand (1928-30)

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099485612

- Some Prefer Nettles (1929)

/ Vintage Classics, 9780099283379

- The Makioka Sisters (1943-48)

/ Vintage Classics, 9780749397104

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Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)

- Snow Country (1935-37, 1947)

/ Vintage International, 9780679761044

- The Master of Go (1951)

/ Vintage, 9780679761068

- The Sound of the Mountain (1954)

/ Seidensticker translation, Vintage International, 9780679762645

- House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

/ Vintage International, 9780525434139

- Beauty and Sadness (1964)

/ Vintage, 9780679761051

- Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (1923-64)

/ FSG Classics, 9780374530495

*

Osamu Dazai (1909-48)

- No Longer Human (1948)

/ Keene translation, New Directions, 9780811204811

*

Yasushi Inoue (1907-91)

- Life of a Counterfeiter (1965)

/ Emmerich translation, Pushkin Press, 9781782270027

*

K��bō Abe (1924-93)

- The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

/ Saunders translation, Vintage International, 9780679733782

- The Face of Another (1964)

/ Saunders translation, Vintage International, 9780375726538

- The Ruined Map (1967)

/ Saunders translation, Vintage International, 9780375726521

- The Box Man (1973)

/ Saunders translation, Vintage International, 9780375726514

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Yukio Mishima (1925-70)

- Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories (1953)

/ New Directions, 9780811201179

- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)

/ Morris translation, Vintage Classics, 9780099285670

- After the Banquet (1960)

/ Keene translation, 9780099282785

- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963)

/ Nathan translation, Vintage Classics, 9780099284796

- The Sea of Fertility tetralogy (written 1965-70):

1. Spring Snow (1965)

/ Gallagher translation, Vintage International, 9780679722410

2. Runaway Horses (1969)

/ Gallagher translation, Vintage International, 9780679722403

3. The Temple of Dawn (1970)

/ Saunders and Segawa Seigle translation, Vintage International, 9780679722427

4. The Decay of the Angel (1971)

/ Seidensticker translation, Vintage International, 9780679722434

See also:

Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima, by Naoki Inose

/ Stone Bridge Press, 9781611720082

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Kenzaburō Ōe (1935- )

- A Personal Matter (1965)

/ Nathan translation, Grove Press, 9780802150615

- The Silent Cry (1967)

/ Bester translation, Serpent's Tail Classics, 9781781255650

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Haruki Murakami (1949- )

Novels:

- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

/ Birnbaum translation, Vintage, 9780099448785

- Norwegian Wood (1987)

/ Rubin translation, Vintage, 9780099448822

- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-5)

/ Rubin translation, Vintage International, 9780099448792

- Kafka on the Shore (2002)

/ Gabriel translation, Vintage International, 9780099458326

- After Dark (2004)

/ Rubin translation, Vintage, 9780099506249

- 1Q84 (2009-10)

/ Rubin and Gabriel translation, Vintage, 9780099578079

- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013)

/ Gabriel translation, Vintage, 9780099590378

Short story collections:

- The Elephant Vanishes (17 stories, 1980-91)

/ Vintage, 9780099448754

- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (24 stories, 1980-2005)

/ Vintage, Gabriel and Rubin translation, 9780099488668

- Birthday Stories (2002) (an anthology of stories featuring birthdays, by various authors including Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, and Murakami himself)

/ Vintage, 9780099481553

- Men Without Women (7 stories, 2013-14)

/ Gabriel and Goossen translation, Vintage, 9781101974520

See also: 

Haruki Murakami: A Long, Long Interview, by Mieko Kawakami

/ [coming soon]

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Ryū Murakami (1952- )

- Almost Transparent Blue (1976)

/ out of print?

- Coin Locker Babies (1980)

/ Pushkin Press, 9781908968470

- 69 (1987)

/ Pushkin Press, 9781908968463

- Audition (1997)

/ Bloomsbury, 9781408800720

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Banana Yoshimoto (1964- )

- Kitchen (1988)

/ Backus translation, Faber & Faber, 9780571342723

- Goodbye Tsugumi (1989)

/ Emmerich translation, Faber & Faber, 9780571212842

- Asleep (1989)

/ Emmerich translation, Faber & Faber, 9780571205370

- Lizard (1993)

/ Sherif translation, Simon & Schuster, 9780671532765

- Amrita (1994)

/ Faber & Faber, 9780571193745

- Moshi-Moshi (2010)

/ Asa Yoneda translation, Counterpoint, 9781640090156

*

Hiromi Kawakami (1958- )

- Strange Weather in Tokyo (2001)

/ Powell translation, Counterpoint, 9781640090163

- The Ten Loves of Nishino (2003)

/ Powell translation, Granta, 9781846276972

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Yōko Ogawa (1962- )

- The Diving Pool: Three Novellas (1990) 

/ Vintage, 9780099521358

- Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (1998) 

/ Vintage, 9780099553939

- The Housekeeper and the Professor (2008)

/ Vintage, 9780099521341

*

Mieko Kawakami (1976- )

- Ms. Ice Sandwich (2018)

/ Pushkin Press, 9781782273301

*

Sayaka Murata (1979- )

- Convenience Store Woman (2018)

/ Granta, 9781846276842

*

Yukiko Motoya (1979- )

- The Lonesome Bodybuilder (2018) 

/ Asa Yoneda translation, Soft Skull Press, 9781593766788

*

- The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018)

/ Edited by Jay Rubin, Penguin Classics, 9780241311905

*

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Possible contexts for some of the works listed above:

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Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki) (c. 973 or 978-1014 or 1031)

- The Tale of Genji (<1021)

/ Waley translation, Tuttle, 9784805310816

See also:

- The Tale of Genji: A Reader’s Guide, by William J. Puette

/ Tuttle, 9784805310847

*

Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)

- The Book of Five Rings (1645)

/ Bennett translation, Tuttle, [paperback coming soon]

*

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719)

- Hagakure (1716)

/ Bennett translation, Tuttle, 9784805311981

*

Nitobe Inazō (1862-1933)

- Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900)

/ Bennett translation, Tuttle, [paperback coming soon]

*

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)

- Japanese Ghost Stories

/ Penguin Classics, 9780241381274

*

D. T. Suzuki (1870-1966)

- An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (1934)

/ Grove Press, 9780802130556

*

Eugene Herrigel (1884-1955)

- Zen in the Art of Archery (1948)

/ Vintage, 9780375705090

*

Shunryū Suzuki (1904-71)

- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (1970)

/ Shambhala, 9781590308493

*

Boye Lafayette De Mente

- Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules that Make the Difference!

/ Tuttle, 9784805313619

- Japan: A Guide to Traditions, Customs and Etiquette: Kata as the Key to Understanding the Japanese

/ Tuttle, 9784805314425

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Roger J. Davies

- The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

/ Tuttle, 9780804832953

- Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

/ Tuttle, 9784805311639

[aschenblumen]

Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier, op. 59 (acto II, «Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren»). Libreto de Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Christoph Eschenbach, director Barbara Bonney, soprano Susan Graham, mezzosoprano

[dermontag]

Eine Nähe zum Publikum aufzubauen, das ist Sebastian Nordmann, dem Berliner Konzerthaus-Intendanten extrem wichtig. Und zwar auf allen nur erdenklichen Kanälen. Tagsüber lassen sich im Vestibül des klassizistischen Musentempels am Gendarmenmarkt diverse digitale Spielereien ausprobieren, bis hin zum Flug durch den Saal mittels Virtual- Reality-Brille. Und sogar auf dem Videospiele-Portal Twitch ist das Konzerthaus regelmäßig aktiv. Aber auch bei den Live-Konzerten will Nordmann Neues wagen. Im November beispielsweise mit einem Festival, das den schön doppeldeutigen Namen „Aus den Fugen trägt“. Die besonders im Barock beliebten mehrstimmigen Kompositionen werden dabei sein, allerdings in ungewohnter Form, wenn nämlich der Cembalist Jean Rondeau und der Perkussionist Tancrède Kummer über Bachs „Goldberg-Variationen“ improvisieren. Fazil Say wird einen Klavierabend zu gesellschaftspolitischen Themen konzipieren, bei einem Dunkelkonzert steht ein Werk von Georg Friedrich Haas für sechs Flügel im Zentrum, eingeladen ist auch die Techno-Marching Band „die Meute“. Sopranistin Fatma Said ist "Artist in Residence" Ebenfalls grenzenlos denkt die Sopranistin Fatma Said, die in der kommenden Saison „Artist in Residence“ am Gendarmenmarkt ist. Von Jazz über Tango bis zum romantischen Kunstlied reicht die Palette ihrer Ausdrucksformen, sie tritt mit einem A Cappella-Männerquintett auf und unternimmt mit dem Konzerthausorchester eine Klangreise rund ums Mittelmeer, bis in ihre Heimat Ägypten. Chefdirigent Christoph Eschenbach ist auch in seiner letzten Saison weiterhin für die großen sinfonischen Brocken zuständig, er wird sich Mahlers 2. und 5. Sinfonie vornehmen, sowie das Klavierquintett von Brahms in der „genialen“ Orchestration durch Arnold Schönberg. Zum Musikfest leitet er eine Hommage an den Komponisten Aribert Reimann, bei seinem Abschiedskonzert wird er Mozarts Requiem mit der „Unvollendeten“&nbsp;von Schubert kombinieren. Ehrendirigent Ivan Fischer kehrt für vier Programme zurück, unter den Gästen am Pult des Konzerthausorchesters sind auch die Dirigentinnen Elim Cham, Stephanie Childress, Lucie Leguay und Alondra de la Parra.

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Carl Maria von Weber: Ouvertüre zur Oper „Der Freischütz“ | Liederhalle Stuttgart, Mai 2019 SWR Symphonieorchester Dirigent: Christoph Eschenbach

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LIVE AUS DEM KONZERTHAUS BERLIN

Online-Premiere von Schostakowitschs 5. Sinfonie: Das Konzerthausorchester Berlin und Christoph Eschenbach spielt am Donnerstag, 2. April 2020, 21.00 Uhr auf konzerthaus.de die fünfte Sinfonie. Die fünfte Sinfonie ist das erste große Werk, mit dem Dmitri Schostakowitsch 1937 nach schweren ideologischen Angriffen 1937 an die Öffentlichkeit tritt - unter scharfer Beobachtung. Schostakowitsch-Freund Krzysztof Meyer vermutet hinter der begeisterten Reaktion des Premierenpublikums jedoch keine Reaktion auf eine musikalische Siegesfeier: „Die dramatische Kraft der Symphonie Nr. 5 stellte für die Russen, die Musik häufig programmatisch aufnehmen und außermusikalische Inhalte darin suchen, gleichsam ihre eigene Geschichte dar, die Geschichte ihres Lebens und der Tragödie der letzten Jahre.“ Chefdirigent Christoph Eschenbach zu Beginn seiner Debütsaison über das viel diskutierte Werk: „Einer meiner Vorgänger am Konzerthaus Berlin war Kurt Sanderling, der ganz große Schostakowitsch-Dirigent. Ich bin gespannt auf dieses Orchester, mit dessen DNA Schostakowitsch von einer Generation an die nächste weitergegeben wird. Bei seiner fünften Sinfonie hat der Komponist kurz vor seinem Tod das Tempo der Coda des letzten Satzes nach unten korrigiert, weg vom Jubel, hin zu etwas Tragischem, Schmerzvollem. Diese Version spielen wir. Sie berührt mich persönlich sehr.“ Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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September 17 in Music History

1179 Death of German composer Hildegard von Bingen in Rupertsburg. 

1605 Birth of composer Francesco Sacrati.

1762 Death of Italian composer Francesco Geminiani. 1767 Birth of French violinist, conductor and composer Henri-Montan Berton.

1795 Baptismal of Italian composer Giuseppe Severio Raffaele Mercadante in Altimura. 

1803 Death of Austrian composer Franz Xaver Sussmayr in Vienna.

1814 Birth of composer Stefano Ronchetti-Molnteviti.

1815 Birth of Norwegian composer and conductor Halfdan Kjerulf.

1821 Birth of composer Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon.

1827 Birth of German composer Ludwig Siegfried Meinardus in Hooksiel. 

1846 Death of Austrian pianist and composer Francesco Pollini in Milan. 

1849 Birth of composer Vaclav Juda Novotny.

1859 Birth of American composer Richard Henry Warren. 

1864 FP of Offenbach's La Belle Helene in Paris.

1868 Birth of Italian tenor Ferruccio Giannini.

1874 Birth of Dutch composer Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman.

1875 Birth of composer Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin.

1877 Birth of French pianist, organist, and composer Jean Hure.

1878 Birth of Italian composer Vincenzo Tommasini in Rome. 

1880 Birth of French conductor and composer D. E. Inghelbrecht in Paris.

1884 Birth of American composer and pianist, Charles Tomlinson Griffes.

1885 Birth of opera composer Uzeir Hajibeyev.

1892 Birth of Dutch composer Hendrik Andriessen in Haarlem. 

1905 Birth of composer Jorge Urrutia Blondel.

1907 Birth of Polish tenor Andrzej Francziszek Bielecki. 

1907 Birth of soprano Hilde Scheppan.

1907 Death of Austrian composer Ignaz Brull in Vienna. 

1908 Birth of German composer Franz J A Grothe.

1913 Birth of composer Jorgen Jersild.

1917 Birth of Korean teacher and composer Isang Yung in Tong Young.

1922 Birth of soprano Liane Synek.

1929 Birth of American conductor Vincent La Selva.

1930 Birth of Dutch composer Theo Loevendie in Amsterdam

1931 FP of Delius A Song of Summer in London.

1932 Birth of tenor Pierre Duval.

1934 Birth of Italian tenor Renato Francesconi in Rome. 

1936 Birth of German bass Roland Hermann in Bochum.

1939 Birth of American tenor David Griffith in Eugene, OR.

1949 Birth of Spanish opera composer Miguel Gomez-Martinez in Granada.

1952 Birth of bass John-Paul Bogart.

1952 FP of Fortner's "Die Witwe von Epheus" Berlin.

1954 Birth of French composer Joel-Francois Durand in Orleans.

1954 Death of Italian tenor Alessandro Dolci in Bergamo.

1957 FP of Henry Cowell's Persian Set. Minneapolis Symphony, Antal Dorati conducting at the Gulestan Palace in Tehran, Iran. 

1964 FP of Einem's "Der Zerrissene" Hamburg (1964).

1966 Death of German tenor Fritz Wunderlich.

1982 FP of Steve Reich's Tehillim for orchestra. New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta, in NYC.

1991 Death of French violinist Rene 'Zino' Francescatti.

1998 Death of American composer William Albright in Ann Arbor, MI.

2002 FP of John Adams's Transmigration of Souls by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

2003 First concert with Christoph Eschenbach conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra, as new music director, at the Kimmel Center for the performing arts in Philadelphia. Conducting Berlioz, Dvorak and Brahms.

2011 Death of German conductor Kurt Sanderling.