All lists must include the six asterisked works below and at least fourteen other works named. In addition, the list must contain approximately twenty works from the twentieth century, chosen so as to include a reasonable distribution of texts that address at least three important areas of recent criticism. These areas include but are not limited to Psychoanalysis, Marxism, New Criticism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Deconstruction, Feminism, Queer theory, Gender studies, Sociolinguistics, New Historicism, Translation theory, Science studies, Popular culture studies.

Plato Symposium; Ion; * Republic (Bks. 2,3,10)
Aristotle Rhetoric, *Poetics
Horace * The Art of Poetry
Longinus On the Sublime
Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy
St. Augustine De Ordine; De Musica
Dante Alighieri Letter to Can Grande della Scala
Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks (selections)
Marsilio Ficino Commentary on Plato's Symposium
Sir Philip Sidney An Apologie for Poetrie
Nicholas Boileau The Art of Poetry
Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism
Samuel Johnson Preface to Shakespeare; Rasselas (Bk. 10)
Giambattista Vico The New Science (Bks. 1-3)
Gotthold Lessing Laocoön (Chs. 2,3,16)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Essay on the Origin of Language
Immanuel Kant * Critique of Judgement (Bks. 2,3)
Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man
On Naive and Sentimental Poetry
G.W.F. Hegel * Introduction to The Philosophy of Fine Art
William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Samuel T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria (Chs. 7,14,15,17,18)
Percy B. Shelley Defense of Poetry
Karl Marx The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Grundrisse
Victor Hugo Preface to Cromwell
Charles Baudelaire The Salon of 1859; Painter of Modern Life
Hippolyte Taine Selections from History of English Literature
A. Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation
Friedrich Nietzsche * The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
"On Truth and Lies in their Non-Moral Sense"
David Hume "Of the Standard of Taste"
Edmund Burke A Philosophical Inquiry...
Matthew Arnold "Science and Poetry", "Culture and Anarchy"
"The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
Oscar Wilde "The Critic as Artist"
Stephen Mallarmé "Crise de vers"
Marcel Proust Contre Sainte-Beuve

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE EVALUATION OF READING LISTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS

I. All titles and spelling must be correct. The GSC will not consider any list with more than 5 errors.

II. The reading list, approved and signed by all members of the examining committee, must be submitted to all members of the GSC at least one week prior to the meeting at which the candidate wishes it to be considered.

III. All course and language requirements must have been completed prior to setting a date for the comprehensive examination. To assure that these requirements have been met, official scheduling of the examination will be done only by the DGS. The candidate, however, is responsible for finding an appropriate time and date and communicating them to the DGS.