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Literature & Composition (LITC-200)

About Library Resources

Below is a list of course materials and additional resources to support the course readings.

Required books & films are held on RESERVE and can be requested at the Library Help Desk
Additional copies may be available to check out of the library or as eBooks

Videos ~ Required Viewing

Hunger by Steve McQueen
Call Number: 4404 DVD
Women in Love by Ken Russell (directed by)
Call Number: 4403 DVD

Books ~ Course texts

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Call Number: PS3603.O4558 H86 2009
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Call Number: PT8950.H3 S84 1998 & eBook
Hunger : an unnatural history by Sharman Apt Russell
Call Number: HN8 .R88 2005 & eBook
The Hungry Ear by Kevin Young (Editor)
Call Number: PN6110.F73 H83 2012

Supplemental Reading

Jane Eyre : authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism by Charlotte Brontë; Richard Dunn (Editor)
Call Number: PR4167.J5 D86 1987
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Call Number: PS3603.O4558 C3817 2013
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Call Number: PS3603.O4558 M63 2010
Hunger of Memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez : an autobiography. by Richard Rodriguez
Call Number: F870.M5 R62 1983
Toast : the story of a boy's hunger by Nigel Slater
Call Number: TX357 .S53 2004
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 G8 2006

Additional Required Reading

Armstrong, John. “What Is Art For?” City Journal. Autumn 2013.
FULL-TEXT on the magazine's website

Armstrong, John. “What Is Art For?” City Journal. Autumn 2013.
PDF copy

Auster, Paul. “The Art of Hunger.” The Art of Hunger. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. 9-20.
FULL-TEXT on archive.org (create a free account to login and read online)

Kafka, Franz. “A Hunger Artist.” 1924.
Call Number: PN6120.2 .S85 2011

IN The Story and Its Writer : An Introduction to Short Fiction. 8th ed., Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011.

FULL-TEXT on Kafka-online.info (public domain)
Translation by Ian Johnston
“Why Do I Fast?” The man died : prison notes of Wole Soyinka. 249-254. by Wole Soyinka
Call Number: on order

Publication Date: 1972

A record of 27 months of imprisonment of a Nigerian writer held as a political prisoner in 1967-1969 at a time of civil war and secession of the state of Biafra.

Books ~ Reference, Criticism, & more

Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy : a literary and cultural analysis by Tom Henthorne
Call Number: on order
Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games by Mary F. Pharr (Editor); Leisa A. Clark (Editor)
Call Number: on order
Knut Hamsun, Novelist by Sverre Lyngstad
Call Number: on order
Roots of Modernist Narrative : Knut Hamsun's novels Hunger, Mysteries, and Pan by Martin Humpál
Call Number: on order
Hunger Overcome? : food and resistance in twentieth-century African American literature by Andrew Warnes
Call Number: PS153.N5 W346 2004

Charles Dickens : Great expectations ( Columbia critical guides) by Nicolas Tredell
Call Number: PR4560 .C45 2000
D. H. Lawrence : the life of an outsider by John Worthen
Call Number: PR6023.A93 Z9574 2005
Collected Plays by Wole Soyinka
Call Number: PR9387.9.S6 A19 1973
The Grapes of Wrath : a reference guide by Barbara A. Heavilin
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 G853 2002
A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 Z459 2006
Kafka by Nicholas Murray
Call Number: PT2621.A26 Z7787 2004

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