Literature Reading List

10 Ancient Foundations Early epic, sacred, mythic, and oral texts read as literary foundations. 15 Starter 47 Core 215 Advanced 529 Full 20 Greek and Roman Classics Classical Mediterranean literature beyond the foundational epic sequence. 14 Starter 50 Core 173 Advanced 391 Full 30 South Asian Classical Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil, and related classical South Asian literary traditions. 10 Starter 22 Core 82 Advanced 176 Full 40 East Asian Classical Classical Chinese, Japanese, and early East Asian poetry, prose, drama, and narrative. 5 Starter 19 Core 123 Advanced 351 Full 50 Medieval Europe Medieval European epic, romance, allegory, saga, devotional, and courtly traditions. 12 Starter 42 Core 211 Advanced 575 Full 60 Islamicate Traditions Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Islamicate poetry, prose, romance, and narrative. 1 Starter 10 Core 110 Advanced 320 Full

70 Early Modern Drama Renaissance and early modern dramatic traditions, including Shakespearean and continental drama. 19 Starter 60 Core 148 Advanced 344 Full 80 Early Modern Prose Early modern fiction, satire, travel narrative, romance, and transregional narrative traditions. 5 Starter 27 Core 92 Advanced 184 Full 90 Enlightenment and Early Novel Enlightenment, satirical, sentimental, Gothic, and early novel traditions through Austen. 8 Starter 54 Core 160 Advanced 334 Full 100 Romanticism Romantic poetry, prose, and lyric transformations across national traditions. 11 Starter 42 Core 137 Advanced 273 Full 110 19th-Century Novel Realist, naturalist, psychological, social, and historical novels of the long 19th century. 30 Starter 123 Core 280 Advanced 489 Full 120 19th-Century Poetry and Drama Major 19th-century poetry, verse drama, theater, and dramatic prose. 7 Starter 54 Core 157 Advanced 217 Full 130 Fin-de-Siecle Late 19th-century symbolic, decadent, aesthetic, and transitional modern literary forms. 3 Starter 8 Core 44 Advanced 84 Full

140 High Modernism Modernist fiction, poetry, and prose experiments through the early and mid-20th century. 24 Starter 114 Core 306 Advanced 471 Full 150 Modern Drama Modern, late modern, and absurdist drama. 9 Starter 70 Core 159 Advanced 219 Full 160 Modern/Postwar Anglophone 20th-century American, Canadian, British, Irish, and other anglophone fiction, drama, and poetry from the 1930s through the postwar period. 22 Starter 164 Core 492 Advanced 848 Full 170 Mid/Postwar Europe Mid-century, postwar, continental European, Soviet, Eastern European, and Cold War literary traditions. 5 Starter 43 Core 125 Advanced 214 Full

175 Modern Asian Literatures Modern and contemporary East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and related Asian literary traditions. 1 Starter 34 Core 213 Advanced 525 Full 177 Modern Middle Eastern Modern Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and related Middle Eastern literary traditions from the early 20th century onward. 1 Starter 16 Core 71 Advanced 210 Full 180 African and Postcolonial African, Caribbean, South Asian, diasporic, and postcolonial literature. 8 Starter 84 Core 230 Advanced 446 Full 185 Indigenous and Native Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous literary traditions represented in the quizbowl-derived canon. 3 Starter 10 Core 53 Advanced 133 Full 190 Latin American Boom and After Latin American Boom, post-Boom, and contemporary Latin American literature. 6 Starter 39 Core 112 Advanced 197 Full 200 Contemporary Global Contemporary world literature after the postwar period, including global fiction, poetry, and drama. 2 Starter 41 Core 212 Advanced 635 Full

210 Poetry Lab Poetry packets, lyric traditions, and poet-focused selections that cut across periods. 13 Starter 142 Core 490 Advanced 1019 Full 220 Short Fiction Lab Short stories, story cycles, and short-fiction author packets across traditions. 11 Starter 139 Core 443 Advanced 816 Full 230 Criticism and Poetics Poetics, literary criticism, theory, and interpretive prose used to frame primary texts. 5 Starter 46 Core 160 Advanced 364 Full