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For Those Taking 540 Magic in Lit in the Spring

Here are Dr. Sax’s book assignments for the spring ENGL 540 Magic in Literature course:

  • Hesiod. Theogony & Works and Days. Trans. M. L. West. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. ISBN: 9-780192-817884.
  • Hoffmann, E. T. A. The Golden Pot and Other Tales. Trans. Ritchie Robinson. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. ISBN: 0199552479.
  • Roob, Alexander. Alchemy: Mysticism. Trans. Shaun Whiteside. London: Taschen, 2009. ISBN: 9-783836-517690.
  • Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. New York: Scholastic, 1997. ISBN— 0439708184.
  • Sax, Boria. Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. ISBN – 978-1780231730.
  • Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night. New York: Penguin, 2000. ISBN: 978-0-14-071489-0.
  • Yates, Frances, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 0-415-25409-4.