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British and Irish Examination List 1939-Present Please Note: You may wish to modify this list in consultation with your examination committee. Fiction Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (1934) Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory (1940) Flann O’Brien, The Poor Mouth (published in 1941 as An Beal Bocht, as Myles na gCopaleen, translation published in 1973). Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955) Samuel Beckett, Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, [and] The Unnamable (published together in 1959) Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls (1960) Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) Iris Murdoch, The Red and The Green (1965) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) J. G. Farrell, Troubles (1970) John Banville, Birchwood (1973) Muriel Spark, The Takeover (1976) Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981) Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) Graham Swift, Waterland (1983) Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984) John McGahern, Amongst Women (1990) Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy (1992) Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting (1993) Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark (1996) Zadie Smith, White Teeth: A Novel (2000) Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003) Drama Read the selected plays (or screenplays) of the following, except where a specific text is suggested: Samuel Beckett, Collected Plays (Grove) Caryl Churchill Brian Friel Hanif Kureishi (screenplays) David Hare Tony Harrison Martin McDonagh, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays, includes The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, and The Lonesome West (Vintage Books) John Osborne, Look Back in Anger Harold Pinter Tom Stoppard Arnold Wesker, Three Plays Poetry Read the collected or selected works of the following poets, except where noted: W. H. Auden (Later Poems) Eavan Boland David Dabydeen Carol Ann Duffy Douglas Dunn T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets Ian Hamilton Finlay Tony Harrison Seamus Heaney Geoffrey Hill Ted Hughes David Jones, The Anathemata Philip Larkin J. H. Prynne Denise Riley Dylan Thomas Also consult: Dannie Abse, ed., Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (second half) Jeni Couzyn, ed., The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets Patrick Crotty, ed., Modern Irish Poetry Maurice Lindsay, ed., Modern Scottish Poetry E.A. Markham, ed., Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain John Matthias, ed., 23 Modern British Poets Keith Tuma, ed., Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (second half) Keith Tuma, ed., Talisman Special Issue: Irish Poets Non-fiction prose and criticism Robert Crawford, Devolving English Literature Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Robert Hampson and Peter Barry, eds., New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible (Manchester UP) .

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