Summer Study Abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland
Reading List

The following texts form the basis of the academic work of the School in Summer 2010. Since the SUISS programme is intensive, students are strongly recommended to read as many of the set texts as possible, in particular the novels, before coming to Edinburgh. Copies of poems will be provided by the SUISS tutors.

Term I: Modernism

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
James Joyce, Dubliners
Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
T.S. Eliot, Selected Poems
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
W.B. Yeats, selected poems from The Tower

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Term II: Scottish Literature

Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (Douglas Dunn ed.)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Driver’s Seat
John McGrath, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Gregory Burke, Black Watch
James Kelman, The Burn
Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
A.L. Kennedy, What Becomes

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Term III: Contemporary Literature

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber
Brian Friel, The Freedom of the City
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
Linda Grant, Remind Me Who I Am Again
Sarah Kane, Blasted
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology (Patrick Crotty ed.)
Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies & Britain (E.A. Markham ed.)

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Creative Writing

Students attending the Creative Writing course are strongly recommended to read as many of the Contemporary Literature texts are possible, in particular the novels, before coming to Edinburgh, as they will also be attending the Contemporary Literature lectures.  While this preparatory reading is essential, Creative Writing students are not required to bring these texts with them to Scotland.