Michael Groden — Texts and Notes
English 872A — Fall 2007
SOME TEXTS WITH AND ABOUT NOTES, GLOSSES, MARGINALIA, ETC.
Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction (to Criticism and Scholarship)
Alford, Henry. "Regrets Only." New York Times Book Review (October 14, 2007): 12
Amis, Martin. Experience: A Memoir. 2000
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. 1985. "Historical Notes" & "Notes for Further Thought" (suggested by Elan Paulson)
Baker, Nicholson. The Mezzanine. 1988
Ballard, J.G. "The Index" and "Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown." War Fever. 1990. 171-76, 161-70
Barth, John. Sabbatical: A Romance. 1982
Bayle, Pierre. The Dictionary, Historical and Critical. London, 1734-38. Originally Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, 1696
Behn, Aphra. "A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation." 1680s
Bergin, David. The Case of Lena S. 2002
Borges, Jorge Luis. "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote." 1941. In Ficciones, Labyrinths, or Collected Fictions
Boully, Jenny. The Body: An Essay. 2002
Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky. Illustrations and notes by Christopher Myers. 2007
Coe, Jonathan. The House of Sleep. New York: Vintage, 1997. Part of Chapter 15, pp. 270-75
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Revised version from 1817, 1834
Colbert, Stephen et al. I Am America (And So Can You!). 2007
Collins, Billy. "Marginalia." Picnic, Lightning. 1998. Online (and several other sites)
Cunningham, J.V. "To the Reader." The Poems of J.V. Cunningham. Ed. Timothy Steele. 1997. 38
Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves. 2nd ed. 2000
Dunn, Mark. Ibid: A Novel. 2004
Echlin, Kim. Elephant Winter. 1997 (suggested by Elan Paulson)
Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. 2000 (suggested by Elan Paulson)
Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land. 1922
Foot, Edward Edwin. "[Untitled]" and from "The Homeward-Bound Passenger Ship." 1860s. Very Bad Poetry. Ed. Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras. 1997. 38-39
Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman. 1969 (suggested by Elan Paulson)
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776-88
Grudin, Robert. Book: A Novel. 1992
Jackson, Shelley. Patchwork Girl. 1995
Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. 1939. Book 2, Chapter 2. 260-308
Kroetsch, Robert. The Hornbooks of Rita K. 2001
LeGuin, Ursula. Always Coming Home. 1986 (suggested by Elan Paulson)
Lethem, Jonathan. "The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism." Harper's (February 2007): 59-71. Online
Moore, Marianne. Notes to "Poetry," 1919 and "Marriage," 1923 [+ notes to other poems]
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. 1962
Pope, Alexander. The Dunciad Variorum. 1729, and The New Dunciad. 1742
Ryman, Geoff. 253: The Print Remix. 1998. Also 253 (its original form) online
Sacks, Oliver. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. 2001
Scriblerus, Martinus [Pope, Swift et al.]. The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Written 1720s. Ed. Charles Kerby-Miller. 1950
Sorrentino, Gilbert. Mulligan Stew. 1979. 308-22
Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. 1760-67
Swift, Jonathan. "The Battle of the Books" and A Tale of a Tub. 1710
Thousand And One Nights. Trans. Sir Richard Burton. 1870s. Ed. L.C. Smithers. 1894
Wallace, David Foster. Almost anything, including: Infinite Jest: A Novel. 1996; A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments. 1997; Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories. 1999; Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays. 2005
Yeats, W.B. Notes to "The Hunting of the Sidhe," "The Host of the Air," and "The Second Coming." 1899, 1921, and 1933 [+ notes to other poems]