Textbooks: Spring 2005 (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog)
Classes start the week after next. I’m teaching the regular full teaching load — four courses — plus an overload.
Students are starting to ask what books they should buy. I won’t be able to get the syllabi up online until next week, but I thought I’d post the reading list here so I can send the URLs to students who e-mail me with questions.
Seminar in Thinking and Writing
No new books if you had me last term.
EL 150: Introduction to Literary Studies
Required Purchase
Clarvoe, Pick Up Ax 0881451037
Edson, Wit 0571198775
Farrel & Koch, Sleeping on the Wing (modern poetry anthology) 0394743644
Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor 006000942X
Gibaldi & Franklin, MLA Handbook (6th ed) 0873529863
Shakespeare, The Tempest 0451527127
Stephenson, The Diamond Age 0553380966
Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves 1592400876
McBride, The Color of Water 1573225789
Miller, Death of a Salesman 0140481346
EL 267: American Literature from 1915-Present
Required
Academy of American Poets, Fifty years of American Poetry 0440218772
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0684801523
Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees 0142001740
McBride, Miracle at St. Anna 1573229717
Rice, The Adding Machine 0573605084
Treadwell, Machinal 1854592114
Updike (ed), Best American Short Stories 0395843677
Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire 0451167783
EL 355: Media Aesthetics
Required
Clarvoe, Pick Up Ax 0881451037
Laurel, Utopian Entrepreneur 0262621533
Powers, Galatea 2.0: A Novel 0312423136
Thorburn & Jenkins, eds. Rethinking Media Change 0262701073
Optional
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 0451526015
(You can opt to download a free copy of this out-of-copyright novel, but if you don’t like the idea of reading a novel from a screen, this inexpensive paperback is an option.)
EL200
Required
Associated Press, The Associated Press Stylebook 0465004881
Mwa-ha-ha! Everybody should experience The Great Gatsby at least once. Reading the book first made the Robert Redford movie version easier to stomach, too.
Aww Dr. Jerz…not The Great Gatsby….
I am aim to please!
Update: Interesting typo, actually…
Thanks for posting this information! I’m glad to be looking for books for class, actually… I’m quite ready to get back into academia :)
Thanks for including the ISBN. I have been comparing prices between the SHU bookstore and Amazon and knowing the exact edition is foolproof (or hopefully so) with this id number. Thanks!
Dennis, All cool choices and some of them I am familiar with, such as: Miller’s Death of a Salesman, MLA Handbook, Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, and the AP Stylebook. I also heard about Truss’s The Bear Eats, Shoots and Leaves along with Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, although I do not own them. Good luck!