LibGuides: Literary Studies in English : English 3

Paper 1: Early Modern Literature

King Lear by R. A. Foakes (Editor); William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781903436592

Publication Date: 1997-05-09

Introduction (151 p.) includes historical background of the play's text and presentations.
As You Like It by David Scott Kastan (Series edited by); H. R. Woudhuysen (Series edited by); Richard Proudfoot (Series edited by); William Shakespeare; Juliet Dusinberre (Editor); Ann Thompson (Series edited by)
Call Number: 822.3303 sha

ISBN: 9781904271215

Publication Date: 2006-07-25

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age.
Selected Poems of John Donne by John Donne; Ilona Bell (Introduction by)
Call Number: 821.3 DON

ISBN: 9780140424409

Publication Date: 2007-03-27

Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time.

Paper 2: African Literary Representations

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
ISBN: 9780141187204

Publication Date: 2003-01-01

The story of a man undone by a culture that in part created him, Season of Migration to the North is a powerful and evocative examination of colonization in two vastly different worlds.

African Oral Literature by Isidore Okpewho; Isidore Okpewho

ISBN: 025320710X

Publication Date: 1992-09-22
Contexts of African Literature by Albert S. Gerard

ISBN: 905183196X

Publication Date: 1990-04-01
Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth H. Finnegan

ISBN: 0198151314

Publication Date: 1970-01-01
Power and the Praise Poem by Leroy Vail; Landeg White

ISBN: 085255088X

Publication Date: 1991-01-01

Library has Ngugi wa Thiong DVD Against all odds and e-Book Penpoints, gunpoints and dreams

Library has Tsitsi Dangarembga DVD Neria

Library has Salih, al-Tayyib e-Book The Wedding of Zein

Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph
ISBN: 9781776191710

Publication Date: 2021

Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism,

Paper 3: The English Novel

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Margaret Cardwell (Editor); Kate Flint (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0192829262

Publication Date: 1994-03-03
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; Cedric Watts (Editor)
Call Number: 823.8 HAR

ISBN: 1551111713

Publication Date: 1999-07-30

When Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy.
A Portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
Call Number: 823.91 JOY

ISBN: 0586044752

Publication Date: 1977

"The definitive text corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann."
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; Claire Lamont; James Kinsley (Editor); Margaret Anne Doody
ISBN: 9780199535576

Publication Date: 2008-06-15

Paper 3: The English Novel

A Complete Concordance to the poetical works of Milton. A book digitised by Google from the library of Oxford University.

Library has a number of John Milton e-Books

Early English Books Online contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

European Romantic Review

On Church Notice Board

The youth group will present Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in the Church basement on Friday at 7pm. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy

About.Com Shakespeare

Britannica Guide to Shakespeare

The complete works of William Shakespeare

A complete works of William Shakespeare

Life and Times of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's poems

William Shakespeare famous quotes and other quotes

Ten things you did not know about William Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser. "I wrote her name upon the strand"

The Library has a number of Edmund Spenser e-Books

Paper 4: South African Post-Apartheid Writing

Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and Politics of Place. An e-Book which contributes to the study of South African literature, offering readings of writers such as Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, and Mda. Focusing on the relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form, the study examines our understanding of apartheid as a geographical form of control, and of its imagined and actual transformation.

Thirteen Cents by K. Sello Duiker
Call Number: 828.93914 DUI

ISBN: 9780864863577

Publication Date: 2012-10-01

Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow-side lurking in its lap:
Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok
Call Number: 828.9392 ZAD

ISBN: 9780330441193

Publication Date: 2005

Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and come to terms with the beliefs her society and upbringing have inculcated in her.
9780810143609
ISBN: 9780795708886
The History of Intimacy by Gabeba Baderoon
Call Number: 828.9192 BAD

ISBN: 9780810143609

Publication Date: 2021-06-15

Gabeba Baderoon's The History of Intimacy is a tender, tangled account of the heady days in South Africa following Nelson Mandela's release from prison.

African Literature

African Oral Literature by Isidore Okpewho; Isidore Okpewho
ISBN: 025320710X

Publication Date: 1992-09-22
Contexts of African Literature by Albert S. Gerard
ISBN: 905183196X

Publication Date: 1990-04-01
Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth H. Finnegan
ISBN: 0198151314

Publication Date: 1970-01-01
Power and the Praise Poem by Leroy Vail; Landeg White
ISBN: 085255088X

Publication Date: 1991-01-01

Library has Ngugi wa Thiong DVD Against all odds and e-Book Penpoints, gunpoints and dreams

Library has Tsitsi Dangarembga DVD Neria

Library has Salih, al-Tayyib e-Book The Wedding of Zein

Read great African literature in print or as an e-Book : African Writer Series

Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph
ISBN: 9781776191710

Publication Date: 2021

Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching picture of indenture told from a woman's perspective.

Modern British Fantasy

Library has Mervyn Peake video cassette Gormenghast

Library has JRR Tolkien AudioBook The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings

Library has C.S. Lewis DVD Chronicles of Narnia and the e-Book Spirit of Bondage

Contemporary American Fiction

Early American Literature invites work treating Native American traditional expressions, colonial Ibero-American literature from North America, colonial American Francophone writings, Dutch colonial, and German American colonial literature as well as writings in English from British America and the US.

Library has Brett Easton Ellis DVD American Psycho

John Milton: Paradise Lost

A Complete Concordance to the poetical works of Milton. A book digitised by Google from the library of Oxford University.

Library has a number of John Milton e-Books

Project Gutenberg free e-Book

Quotes from Paradise Lost

Sleuthing the State: South African Crime & Detective Fiction

Library has e-Book Expulsion and the Nineteenth-century novel [electronic resource] : the scapegoat in English realist fiction / Michiel Heyns.

Clues. A journal of detection

Imperial Gothic

Library has Bram Stoker e-Books

Library has H Rider Haggard e-Books

Library has H.G Wells DVD The Invisible Man and a number of e-Books

Library has Arthur Machen e-Book The Great God Pan

Realism and the English Novel

Library has Charles Dickens DVD Bleak House David Copperfield Hard Times Little Dorrit The Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Our Mutual Friend

Library has Charles Dickens Video Cassette A Christmas Carol Great Expectations Hard Times Martin Chuzzlewit Oliver Twist Tale of Two Cities

Library has Charles Dickens Audio Book Hard Times mOliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities

Library has Charles Dickens e-Book A Tale of Two Cities and many others

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

European Romantic Review

Library has Thomas Hardy DVD Jude the Obscure The Mayor of Casterbridge Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Library has Thomas Hardy Video Cassette The Mayor of Casterbridge

Library has Thomas Hardy Audio Book Far from the madding crowd Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Library has Thomas Hardy e-Books

Library has Laurence Sterne e-Books

Library has Daniel Defoe Audio Books Moll Flanders

Library has Daniel Defoe e-Books

Library has Jane Austen DVD Emma Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility

Library has Jane Austen Video Cassette Northanger Abbey Persuasian Pride and Prejudice

Library has Jane Austen Audio Book Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility

Library has Jane Austen e-Books

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RAVON). An International e-Journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature

Elective: The Queer Unthought: ImaginingBlackness

Wayward lives, beautiful experiments by Hartman, Saidiya V.
Call Number: 305.48896073 HAR

ISBN: 9781788163248

Publication Date: 2019

"At the dawn of the twentieth century, the first generation of black women born after emancipation wanted real freedom. Refusing to labour like slaves, they leapt into the unknown, becoming pioneers of free love, common-law marriage, queer identities and single motherhood.
Jazz by Morrison, Tone
Call Number: 813.54 MOR

ISBN: 9780330322942

Publication Date: 1993

Joe Trace, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband, shoots to death his lover of three months, 18 year old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Captures the complex humanity of black urban life

Elective: Reading Friendship

Running and Other Stories by Makhosazana Xaba
Call Number: 8289392 XAB

ISBN: 9781920590161

Publication Date: 2013-08-01

Turning her back on what is considered conventional, Makhosazana Xaba engages with her subject-matter on a revolutionary level in Running and Other Stories. She takes tradition--be that literary tradition,
Tropical Fish by Doreen Baingana
Call Number: 828.99392 BAI

ISBN: 1558494774

Publication Date: 2005-01-31

Tropical Fish is a collection of linked short stories exploring three African sisters' coming of age.
Queer Africa by Karen Martin (Editor); Makhosazana Xaba (Editor)
ISBN: 9781920590338

Publication Date: 2013-05-01

Queer Africa is a collection of unapologetic, tangled, tender, funny, bruising and brilliant stories about the many ways in which we love each other on the continent -

Elective: At the Crossroads of Asian, European, A,erica and African Graphic Novels

Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 1 by Roye Okupe; Godwin Akpan (Illustrator); Spoof Spoof Animation (Contribution by)
Call Number: 741.5973 OKU

ISBN: 9781506723044

Publication Date: 2021-09-21

Iyanu, a teenage orphan with no recollection of her past, suddenly discovers that she has abilities that rival the ancient deities told in the folklore of her people.
Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 2 by Roye Okupe; Chima Kalu (Illustrator); Godwin Akpan (Contribution by); Spoof Spoof Animation (Contribution by)
Call Number: 741.5973 OKU

ISBN: 9781506723051

Publication Date: 2022-10-25

She must quickly learn to work with an exile and the people of the Riverlands Settlement if she hopes to save her mentor.
Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 3 by Roye Okupe; Chima Kalu (Illustrator); Godwin Akpan (Illustrator); Spoof Spoof Animation (Contribution by)
Call Number: 741.5973 OKU

ISBN: 9781506723068

Publication Date: 2023-09-19

Iyanu makes her way to the Source to save all of Yorubaland from an ancient curse.
Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 4 by Roye Okupe; Sunkanmi Akinboye (Illustrator); Toyin Ajetunmobi (Illustrator); Spoof Spoof Animation (Contribution by)
Call Number: 741.5973 OKU

ISBN: 9781506735771

Publication Date: 2025-03-04

Iyanu must face her destiny and save all of Yorubaland! She has help from her friends: Biyi, a carefree adventurer;

The system of comics / Thierry Groensteen ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen.

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Call Number: 741.5 MCC

ISBN: 9780060976255

Publication Date: 1994-04-27

"You must read this book." --Neil Gaiman The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.

Elective: Machine's like me- Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Novels

Machine's Like Me by McEwan, Ian
Call Number: 823.914 MCE

ISBN: 9781529111262

Publication Date: 2020

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. 'Machines Like Me' occurs in an alternative 1980s London.
Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, Kazuo
Call Number: 823.914 ISH

ISBN: 9780571364909

Publication Date: 2022

This novel tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.
The circle: a novel by Eggers, Dave.
Call Number: 813.6 EGG

ISBN: 9780241146507

Publication Date: 2014

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime.
The Every by Eggers, Dave.
Call Number: 813.6 EGG

ISBN: 9780241993644

Publication Date: 2022

When the world's largest search engine/social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous -- and, oddly enough, most beloved -- monopoly ever known: The Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire

Elective South African Crime Fiction

Devil's peak by Deon Meyer
ISBN: 9780340822661
Daddy's girl by Margie Orford
ISBN: 1868423263
Coldsleep Lullaby by Andrew Brown
ISBN: 1770071059

Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Lost ground : a novel by Michiel Heyns
ISBN: 9781868424160

Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction by Stephen Thomas Knight
ISBN: 0333288769

Publication Date: 1980-11-05
Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 by Stephen Thomas Knight
ISBN: 0333791797

Publication Date: 2004-01-17
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman (Editor)
ISBN: 0521008719

Publication Date: 2003-11-06
Detecting the Nation by Caroline Reitz
ISBN: 978081425135

Publication Date: 2004-09-15
Detective Fiction by Charles J. Rzepka
ISBN: 9780745629414

Publication Date: 2005-09-30

Elective: Is chick lit chic? Re-reading Romance in Contemporary Women's Fiction : Lynda Gichanda Spencer

The Madams by Zukiswa Wanner
Call Number: 828.9395 WAN

ISBN: 9781770070585

Publication Date: 2006-01-01

This comedy of manners for Mzansi roasts a desirable woman's lobola's worth of sacred cows.
Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary by Imelda Whelehan
Call Number: 823.914 FIE

ISBN: 9780826453228

Publication Date: 2002-06-26

This is an excellent guide to Helen Fielding's genre-defining novel.

Elective> Trauma, Memory and the Novel

Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning by Sam Durrant
ISBN: 0791459462

Publication Date: 2006-01-01

A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning. Sam Durrant's powerfully original book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue to haunt our postcolonial era.
Multidirectional Memory by Michael Rothberg
ISBN: 9780804762175

Publication Date: 2009-06-15

Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the one hand,
The Future of Trauma Theory by Gert Buelens (Editor); Samuel Durrant (Editor); Robert Eaglestone (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415694582

Publication Date: 2013-11-04

This collection analyses the future of 'trauma theory', a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections. Part one, History and Culture, begins by developing trauma theory in its more familiar post-deconstructive mode and explores how these insights might still be productive.
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780224094153

Publication Date: 2011

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.
Dust by Y.A. Owuor
Call Number: 828.99392 OWU

ISBN: 9781783781317

Publication Date: 2015

Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya.

Elective: Modern British Fantasy, 1916–1977 : Jamie McGregor

Gormenghast by Peake, M
ISBN: 9780749394820

Enter the world of Gormenghast...Gormenghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir.
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
ISBN: 9780261102385

An epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth.
Perelandra by CS Lewis
ISBN: 9780007157167

The second novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy tells of Dr Ransom's voyage to the planet of Perelandra (Venus).In the second novel in C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world.
The Sword in the stone by TH White
ISBN: 9780007263493

But Merlyn has very particular plans for the Wart. This new edition of T.H Whitea's classic story includes a special a?Why Youa'll Love This Booka? introduction by bestselling-author, Garth Nix.