Reading, Early 1990s

 

1990

January February March

The Romance, Gillian Beer

Sex & Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1859, Eva Figes

The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar.

Romanticism: Vistas, Instances, Continuities, Thorburn Hartman

The Representation of Women in Fiction

The Romantic Hero and his Heirs in French Literature, Lloyd

Sexual Textual Politics, Toril Moi

The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature & Theory

The Romantic Manifesto: an anthology

Jane Austen, Tony Tanner

The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psycho­analysis, Constance Penley

Re-Visions: Essays in Fem. Film Crit., Doane, Mellencamp, Wms.

French Fiction Today: A New Direction, Leon Roudiez

Three Decades of the French New Novel, Ed. Lois Oppenheim.

Twentieth Century French Fiction: Essays for Germaine Bree.

A Tale of Poor Lovers, Vasco Pratolini

French Novelists of Today,  Henri Peyre

Mimesis: Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Auerbach *

Existential Prisons: Captivity in Mid 20th Century Literature, Freese-Witt

Il Silenzio delle Madri: Vittorini. et al, Antonio Di Grado

Contemporary French Literature: 1945 & After, Gaetan Picon 

The Business of Living (Diary: 1935-50), Cesare Pavese

The Smile of the Gods: A Thematic Study of Cesare Pavese's Works, Gian-Paolo Biasin

Italia e Francia nel secondo dopoguerra: il caso Vittorini-Sartre, Anna Maria Cittadini Cipri 

Recent Theories of Narrative, Martin, Wallace

Rise of the Novel, Ian Watt (rr)

Scenes from the Drama of European Literature, Erich Auerbach

Boccaccio's Two Venuses, Robert Hollander

Boccaccio and Fiammetta: the Narrator as Lover, Janet L. Smarr

The Book of the Courtier, Castiglione

The Age of Humanism: 1480-1530, Andre Chastel

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva

Ogni Dipintore Dipinge Se': A Neo-Platonic Echo in Leonardo's Art, Martin Kemp

The New Life/La Vita Nuova, Dante  Translated by Dante G. Rossetti. 

Paradiso, Dante Trans. Dorothy L. Sayers & Barbara Reynolds.

Venus in Sackcloth: The Magdalen's Origins and Metamorphoses, Marjorie Malvern

Misogyny, Misandry and Misanthropy, Ed. Bloch & Frances Ferguson.

Studies in Iconology, Panofsky

The Ladies of Dante's Lyrics, Charles Grandgent

The Figure of Beatrice, Charles Williams

Dante, Beatrice & the Divine Comedy, Charles Tomlinson

Literary Sources of Art History.

April May June

Le Vite, Giorgio Vasari (1913 ed.)

Lives of the Artist, Translation by George Bull. Penguin 1965.

The Poetry of Petrarch, Translation by Marion Shore

Vision and Rennaissance Analogues, Julia Conway Bondanella.

The Renaissance: Essays in Interpretation. Chastel, Kristeller, Grayson, Hall, Hay, Rubinstein, Schmitt, Trinkhaus, Ullmann

Rewriting the Renaissance,  Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers

Feminism & Art History , Garrard, Mary & Norma Broude, Eds.

Questioning the Litany

The Poetics of Ariosto, Marianne Shapiro

Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, Edgar Wind 

Art Through the Ages, Helen Gardner  (rr)

Ficino and Renaissance Neo-Platonism Ed. Eisen­Bichler & Pugliese

Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy, Michael Baxandall **

Maria Zef Paola Drigo (trans Blossom S. Kirschenbaum)

La Citta e la Casa, Natalia Ginzburg

On Glory Roads: A Pilgrim's Book about Pilgrimage, Eleanor Munro.

The Little Virtues, Natalia Ginsburg

Annali d'Italianistica, on film & lit.

Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature,  David Quint

Literary Theory and Renaissance Texts, D. Quint & Patricia Parker

The Survival of the Pagan Gods, Jean Seznec

Family Sayings, Natalia Ginsburg (autobiog.)

History: A Novel, Elsa Morante *

The Historical Novel, George Lukacs

Woman at War, Dacia Maraini

After the Divorce, Grazia Deledda

Lettere agli amici milanesi, C.E. Gadda

July August September

A Hero of Our Times, Vasco Pratolini

Difficult Loves; Smog; A Plunge Into Real Estate, Italo Calvino

Never Must You Ask Me, Natalia Ginzburg

Cosima, Grazia Deledda. (Trans. Martha King)

Mensogna e Sortilegio, Elsa Morante (House of Liars)

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

Fortune is a Woman: Gender & Politics in the Thought of Machiavelli, Hannah Fenichel Pitkin

La disarmonia prestabilita: studio su Gadda, G.C. Roscioni

Naked Streets, Vasco Pratolini (Il Quartiere)

Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

Eros & Priapo, Carlo Emilio Gadda

L'Adalgisa: Disegni Milanesi, Gadda

Il palazzo degli ori, Gadda

Fontamara, Ignazio Silone

The Mother, Grazia Deledda

Vasco Pratolini: Development of a Social Novelist, Frank Rosengarten

L'Agnese va a morire, Renata Vigano *

The Watch, Carlo Levi

Monuments & Maidens, Marina Warner

Mr. Aristotle, Ignazio Silone

Guest of Honor, Irving Wallace

D'Annunzio: The Poet as Superman, Anthony Rhodes.

Letters to Marina, Dacia Maraini

The Story of a Humble Christian, Silone

What Am I Doing Here, Bruce Chatwin

Metello, Vasco Pratolini

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood

Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe

After the Great Divide: Modernism Mass Culture & Post-Modernism, Andreas Huyssens*

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Douglas Adams

The Fox & the Camellias, Ignazio Silone. (Translated Eric Mosbacher)

[teaching texts]

Story of Modern Art Lynton 

History of Modern Art Arnson

Concepts of Modern Art

Theories of Modern Art

La Meccanica, Gadda

October November December

Rube, Borgese (1923)

Hinduism, Louis Renou

Running Wild, J.G. Ballard

Eva Luna, Isabelle Allende

Birth of the Clinic, Foucault (selections re-read)

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology & the Scientific Revolution, Carolyn Merchant

An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron, Millicent Marcus

Nature and Love in the Late Middle Ages, Aldo Scaglione

Fabula vs Figura: Another Interpretation of the Griselda Story, Marga Cottino-Jones

Machiavelli in Hell, Sebastian De Grazia

Michelangelos's Florence & Dante's an essay in Com­parative History, Charles Le Guin

The Renaissance Notion of Woman, Ian MacLean

Italian Humanism: Dante & Petrarch, Rocco Montano

Selected Poems, Petrarch. Trans. Anthony Mortimer.

Petrarch: The Augustan Poets, the Italian Tradition and the Canzoniere, Jennifer Petrie

Three Italian Novelists: Moravia, Pavese, Vittorini, Donald Heiney

Writers and Society in Contemporary Italy, Michael Caesar and Peter Hainsworth

The Modern Italian Novel: from Pea to Moravia, Sergio Pacifici

From Futurism to Neo‑Realism Essays on the Modern Italian Novel

From Verismo to Experimentalism: Essays on the Modern Italian Novel

The Italian Resistance Novel (1945-1962), Frank Rosengarten

All Our Yesterdays, Natalia Ginzburg *  

Italian Cinema: from Neo-Realism to the Present, P. Bondanella (rr)

Narrative and Drama: Essays in Modern Italian Literature, Olga Ragusa

The Italian Cinema, Pierre Leprohon

Struggles in the Italian Film Industry During Fascism, Elaine Mancini

Il Gran Lombardo, Giulio Cattaneo (on Gadda)

Leggere Gadda: antologia della critica gaddiana, Ceccaroni

Italian Fiction from Pavese to Pasolini, Dante Della Terza

The Neo‑Realists and the Form of the Novel, Della Terza

Moral Committment & Invention in Gadda's Poetics, Robert Dombroski

Invito alla lettura di C.E. Gadda, Ernesto Ferrero

L'uomo dei topazi saggio psicoanalitico, un saggio su Gadda, Elio Gioanola

A Vocabulary Analysis of Gadda's Pasticciaccio, Joan McConnel

From Engagement to Alienation: A View of Contemp. Italian Lit, Sergio Pacifici

A Love Affair, Dino Buzzati

Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice

The Sand Child, Tahar ben Jelloun

New Islands & Other Stories, Maria Luisa Bombal

Women's Voices in Italian Literature

Critique of Commodity Aesthetics, Haug (rr) *

Intensive Journal Workshop, Ira Progoff

The Advertisement, Natalia Ginzburg (L'Inserzione)

Popular Film Culture in Fascist Italy, James Hay

Childhood, Nathalie Sarraute

The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing & the Human Condition, Arthur Kleinman

The Blood of Others, Simone de Beauvoir (rr)

The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice

The Lady & the Little Fox Fur, Violette Leduc

 

1991

January February March

Voices in the Evening, Natalia Ginzburg

The Golden Buttons, Violette Leduc

Manhood, Michel Leiris

Caro Michele, N Ginzburg (rr)

Autobiographical Tightropes, Leah D. Hewitt  [Sarraute, Beauvoir, Duras, Wittig, Conde]

Masks of Tradition: Women and the Politics of Writing in 20th Century France, Martha Noel Evans [Colette, deBeauvoir, Leduc, Duras, Cixous, Wittig]

La Folie en Tete, Violette Leduc.

Serena Cruz o la vera giustizia, Natalia Ginzburg

The Eagle's Gift, Carlos Castenada

Alibi, Elsa Morante (poems)

The Politics of Metaphor: Dialectics of Oppression in Miguel Angel Asturias and Elsa Morante, Teresa McKenna. (PhD Diss.) 

The Woman Destroyed, Simone deBeauvoir (3 novellas)

She Came to Stay [L'Invitee], Simone de Beauvoir

Hearts & Minds: The Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre, Axel Madsen

Women of the Road, Elio Vittorini

Valentino; Sagittarius, Natalia Ginzburg (novellas, Trans. Avril Bardoni)

Family ; Borghesia, Natalia Ginzburg  (novellas, Trans. Beryl Stockman)

 The Dry Heart / The Road to the City

Feminism and Femininity in Marguerite Duras, Trista Selous.

Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing, Patricia Yaeger

Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice, Milan' Women's Bookstore Collective

Les Bouches Inutiles, Simone deBeauvoir (play)

Todo Modo, Leonardo Sciascia

Gender & Genius Towards a Feminist Aesthetics, Christine Battersby

Conjugal Love, Alberto Moravia

A Dream of Something, Pasolini

variety of books on health conditions to survey the field

Alienation & Absence in the Novels of Mgte. Duras, Carol J.Murphy

Woman to Woman [Les Parleuses] Duras & Xaviere ? dialogues

All Men Are Mortal, Simone de Beauvoir (rr)

Several books on filmmaker John Schlesinger

Pasolini books: Oswald Stack Interviews; Stephen Snyder;

Pia Friedrich; PPP & the Theatre of the Word, William Van Watson

The Poetics of Heresy, editor Bevely Allen

Migraine, Oliver Sacks

To Desire Differently: Feminism & French Cinema, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

Narrative Patterns of Film Noir, J.P. Telotte

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

In Country, Bobbie Ann Mason

April May June

The Gem Ornament of Liberation, Kalu Rimpoche.

Maledetta Benedetta: Elsa e sua madre, Marcello Morante.

le Parole in guerra lingua e ideologia dell'Agnese va a morire, Andrea Battistini

Invito alla lettura di Elsa Morante, Carlo Sgorlon

Struttura e stile della narrative di Elsa Moran­te, Angelo R. Pupino

PhD dissertation on Natalia Ginzburg, Aine O'Healy

Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe

The Loony-Bin Trip, Kate Millet

Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K. Dick

Donatella Ravanello. Scrittura e follia nei romanzi di Elsa Morante

Il Castoro issue on Natalia Ginzburg

In Milt Lumsky Territory, Philip K. Dick

Migraine & the Allergy Connection, John Mansfield

Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene

Operatic Lives, Alberto Savinio (autobiog...)

July August September

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (rr) **

Portrait of an Unknown Man, Natalie Sarraute

The Rebellion of the Hanged, B Traven (rr)

The Assignment, Fred. Durenmatt

PMLA journal issue on cinema

Close Encounters - Feminism and Science Fiction, ed Con. Penley

The Second Sex, Simone deBeauvoir

Searching, Nawal el Saadawi (Egypt)

My Childhood, Maxim Gorky *

Signatures of the Visible, Fred Jameson

(Famiglia / Borghesia, Nat. Ginzburg,rr)

Diary of A Madman & Other Stories, Nicolai Gogol

Neuromancer; Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson  (trilogy)

1000 Cranes, Y Kawabata

Henry and Cato, Iris Murdoch

A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch

The Ottoman Centuries, Lord Kinross (rr)

Numbers, John Rechy

Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

October November December

Two Crimes, Jorge Ibanberguengoitia

Confessions of Felix Krull, Thomas Mann

The Colonel's Photograph & other stories, Eugene Ionesco

The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Under the Jaguar sun, Italo Calvino

Ferlinghetti: a biography, Neeli Cherkovski

After the Banquet, Yukio Mishima

Natalia Ginzburg, Alan Bullock

Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman

Psychotherapy East and West, Alan Watts

Light, Eva Figes (fiction/Monet)

The Paper House, Francoise Mallet-Joris

Beard's Roman Women, Anthony Burgess

The Last Intellectuals, Russell Jacoby

Seeing the Way (essays on Buddhism)

1992

After the Flood, Prince Constantine of Bavaria

The Prime of Life, Simone de Beauvoir (rr)

No Place on Earth, Christa Wolf

Feminism Without Women, Tania Modleski

Munster Village, Mary Hamilton

Journal d'un Inconnu, Jean Cocteau

Panegyric, Guy Debord (autobiog.)

A Woman a Man & Two Kingdoms: Mme D'Epinay & Abbe Galiani,  Francis Steegmuller

Saving the Planet, Helen Caldicott

Letters (1924-25) of Alix and James Strachey

Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys

Her, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Holy War: The Crusades Impact Modern Middle-East, Karen Armstrong *

Il Doppio Regno, Paola Capriolo

The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema, Angela dalleVacche

Comments on Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord

The Refinement of America: People Houses Cities, Richard Bushman

The Writer on Her Work, ed. Janet Sternburg

A Man Asleep; Things, Georges Perec

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, Michael Pollan *

Feminist Practice & Post-Structuralist Theory, Chris Weedon

Madeleine, Andre Gide

Toddlers & Parents: A Declaration of Independence, T.B. Brazelton

sci-fi short stories, Orson Scott Card

My Convent Life, George Sand 

Hamlet's Mother & other essays, Caroline Heilbron

Four Lives in Paris, Hugh Ford (George Antheil; Margaret Anderson; Kay Boyle; Harold Sterns)

Fernhurst; Q.E.D. & Other Early Writings, Gertrude Stein

Short Stories (Life Being the Best, etc.), Kay Boyle

 

1993

 January February March

Avalanche, Kay Boyle

My Next Bride, Kay Boyle

Engendering the Subject: Gender & Representation in Contemporary Women's Fiction, Sally Robinson

Pikhal, Ann and Alexander Shulgin

The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War, Stewart Home

Villa, Paul Vangelisti

The Debut, Anita Brookner

The Blue Lantern, Colette

April May June

The Possessed Individual and the French Postmodern, Arthur Kroker

Fountain and Tomb, Nahguib Mafouz

The Age of Malaise, Dacia Maraini

Nobody Nowhere: Autobiography of an Autistic, Donna Williams

books on early childhood education Brazelton etc.

The Female Body in Western Culture, ed. Susan Suleiman

collected stories, Once a Catholic, Catholic Girls, Edna O'Brien

Dear Sarah Berhardt, Francoise Sagan

Voyeur, Alberto Moravia

 

July August September

The Revolution of Everyday Life, Raoul Vaneigem *

Pale Horse Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter

The Children of Men, P.D. James

Poly-Text (for judging)

Wartime Writings 1939-44, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The House of Life, Mario Praz (autobiog) *

A Bridge Through Time, Laila Said

A Chorus of Stones, Susan Griffin *

How Fascism Ruled Women, Victoria de Grazia

I Give You My Word, Francoise Giroud

Chimaera: monographie, Lynn Hershman

Home Truths: 16 Stories, Mavis Gallant

October November December

The Lover of Horses, Tess Gallagher

The Silent Partner, Eliz. Stuart Phelps

Time and Narrative, Paul Ricoeur

In Transit, Mavis Gallant

Fairy Tales, E.E. Cummings

Family Album, Claribel Alegria (3 novellas)

Patriarch: George Washington & the New Nation, Smith

Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West

Green History of the World: Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting *

Bodily Harm, Margaret Atwood

Story of My Life, George Sand *

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros

Technopoly, Neil Postman

Isabelle: the Life of Isabelle Eberhardt, Annette Kobak

The Great Power-Line Cover-up, Paul Brodeur

Outside, essays of M. Duras

Marguerite Duras Revisited, Marilyn R. Schuster

and other bks on D. (some re-read.) for diss.

The Buddhist Handbook, John Snelling

 

1994

January February March

Sleepwalker in the Fog, Tatyana Tolstaya

The Science Question in Feminism, Sandra Harding

The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Amos Tutuola

The Last Man, Mary W. Shelley

Celebration, Mary Lee Settle

The Hysterical Male, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, eds.

Homeschooling for Excellence, David & Micki Colfax

Chi Kung, James MacRitchie

Home School/Taking the First Step, Borg Hendrikson

Warning the Electricity Around You..., Ellen Sugarman

Gendered By Design? Information Technology & Office Systems, E.Green, J. Owen, D. Pain

Wordsworth & the Enlightenment: Nature, Man & Society in the Experimental Poetry, Alan Bewell

The House of Childhood, Marie Louise Kaschnitz

Cleopatra's Sister, Penelope Lively

April May June

Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, Margaret Higgonet et al.

Tjukurrpa: Desert Dreamings Aboriginal Art from Central Australia *

Aboriginal Art, Wally Caruana. Thames & Hudson, 1993

Systems of Survival: a Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce & Politics, Jane Jacobs *

On Reading Ruskin, Marcel Proust

Much Depends on Dinner, Margaret Visser *

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Rennaissance & the Medieval Mind, William Manchester

Cannibal Eliot & the Lost Histories of S.F. Hilton Obenzinger

Working Time, Jane Miller (essays on poetry, culture & travel)

The Stones, Erica Pedretti

The Book of Embraces, Eduardo Galeano

Lucie's Long Voyage, Alina Reyes

Monsieur Venus, Rachilde

During Mother's Absence, Michele Roberts

Genet,  Deborah Wineapple (biography of Janet Flanner)

July August September

The Passion of Michel Foucault, James Miller

Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (Ed. Mary Morris)

Chaos and Order, Ed. Katherine Hayles

Full Spectrum 4: speculative fiction anthology

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science, Paul Gross and Norman Levitt

The Human Use of Human Beings:Cybernetics & Society, Norbert Weiner *

Intoxicated By My Illness, Anatole Broyard

Stories, Brion Gysin

The Book of Myths: Legends from around the World,  Amy Cruse

Where the Mind Meets the Body, Harris Dienstfrey

I Had Nowhere to Go, Jonas Mekas (autobiog.) **

Visualization, Epstein

About Andrei Tarkovsky

The Tears of Eros, Georges Bataille

Crisis to Wellness,  Jim Petullo

October November December

The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster

San Francisco Renaissance: Poetry & Community at Mid-Century, Michael Davidson

True Hallucinations, Terence McKenna

Facing the World with Soul: The Re-Imagination of Modern Life, Robert Sardello

poems, Rocco Ruggiero

Conjunctions & Disjunctions, Octavio Paz

Warlpiri Dreamings & Histories, Yimikirli

The Following Story, Cees Noteboom

A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro

Old Chinese Ghost Stories, retold by Paul Quentin Forster

"Foresta Ultra Naturam", Giulia Niccolai & Emilio Villa

A History of Private Life: Revelations of /Medieval World, Philllipe Aries & Georges Duby

The Valentine Elegies, Tess Gallagher (poems)

Lifting Belly/Narration/4 lectures, 1935, Gertrude Stein

Smile Please, Jean Rhys , (autobiography)

Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje