PRIMARY SOURCES 

Poems, short narratives and excerpts from longer works, among them:

1. Helena Maria VIRAMONTES: “The Cariboo Cafe”
2. Margaret ATWOOD: selected stories and poems; Oryx and Crake (excerpts from novel) 
3. George SAUNDERS: “The Semplika Girl Diaries”
4. Merlinda BOBIS: “The Long Siesta as a Language Primer”
5. William SANDERS: “The Undiscovered”
6. Maxine Hong Kingston: China Men (excerpts)
7. Salman RUSHDIE: Midnight Children (excerpts)
8. Karen Tei YAMASHITA: selected short stories and/or excerpts from novels
9. Toni MORRISON: selected short stories and/or excerpts from novels
10. Caryl CHURCHILL: Top Girls (excerpts)

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK:

• Bertens, Hans (2014). Literary Theory: The Basics. London: Routledge. Third edition.

FURTHER READING (SECONDARY SOURCES) 

 Guerin, Wilfred L., et al. (1992). A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press  Barry, Peter (2017). Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press.  Culler, Jonathan (2000). Breve introducción a la teoría literaria. Barcelona: Crítica. Literary Theory: A very Short Introduction, Oxford 1997)  Tyson, Lois (2006). Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. London: Routledge  Ryan, Michael (2010). Cultural Studies: A Practical Introduction. UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.  Eagleton, Terry (1996). Literary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell   Elam, Keir (1979). The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. London: Routledge.  Bertens, Hans (2014). Literary Theory: The Basics. . London: Routledge. Third edition.  Lodge David, ed. (2000). Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader . London: Longman  Belsey, Catherine (2002). Post-Structuralism: A Very Short Introduction.. Oxford: OUP, 2002.  Peck, John, and Martin Coyle, eds (1995). Practical Criticism. (How to Study Literature series). Basingstoke: Macmillan  Selden, Raman, Peter Brooker and Peter Widdowson (1997). Practising Theory and Reading Literature. Hempstead: Prentice Hall Europe  Pearce, Lynne (1994). Reading Dialogics . London: Edward Arnold  Eagleton, Terry (1998). The Eagleton Reader . Oxford: Blackwell  Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold Fromm (1996). The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology.. Athens: The U of Georgia P.  Leich, Vincent B. ed., et al (). The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton   Kermode, Frank & John Hollander eds. (1973). The Oxford Anthology of English Literature. London: OUP.  Said, Edward W (1983). The World, the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP  Gates, Henry Louis, ed. (1986). “Race,” Writing and Difference. Chicago: The U of Chicago P Universidade da Coruña - Rúa Maestranza 9, 15001 A Coruña - Tel. +34 981 16 70 00