1.List of English Texts—2011 Session
The works for the ORAL are: Hamlet, Heart of Darkness and the eight Emily Dickinson poems
1. Two Shakespeare plays: Hamlet*; Macbeth
2. Two 19th/20th/21st century English-language novelists (one of which should be American):
a) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
b) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
c) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
d) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Two English-language playwrights (one of which should be American):
a.) A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee
b.)Fences by August Wilson
4. Two English-language poets (one of which should be American):
a.) A selection of eight poems by Emily Dickinson: “There’s a Certain Slant of Light,” “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain,” “After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes,” “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I died,” “The Wind Begun to Knead the Grass,” “As Imperceptibly as Grief,” “The Soul Selects her own Society,” “We Grow accustomed to the Dark”
b) sonnets, ” Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
5. Four works of world literature (which may be in translation)
a.) Medea by Euripides
b.) A selection of world essays/excerpts including “On Racism” by Chinua Achebe, Chinamanda Adichie “The Danger of a Single Story” Jamaica Kincaid “On Seeing England for the First Time.”
c.) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
d.) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
6. One English-language non-fiction work:
a) Henry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience"
b) Woolf: A Room of One's Own (Chapter One and Two)
c) Martin Luther King, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
