Below are some of the book orders for the spring courses. Because professors are still in the process of determining their reading lists, you should consider this a list-in-progress. Works listed below are a certainty but more works might be added. Ultimately the syllabus your professors share in class will mark the definitive list, but this here will allow you to start securing at least some of your books ahead of the semester. I will update this list throughout December and January if/as I receive more book info from the different professors. The Mercy College bookstore will list the book orders too, but they purposefully don’t give you specific edition information or ISBN numbers in order to “dissuade” you from buying the books for cheaper elsewhere. Search by the ISBN to ensure you are securing the right edition for your courses. I recommend Alibris for finding inexpensive used copies and Powell’s for fairly-priced new books, but of course you can buy your books anywhere.

505 Transformations of the Epic

• Beowulf, ISBN 9780451530967
• The Divine Comedy, ISBN 9780142437223
• The Epic of Gilgamesh, ISBN 9780140441000
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ISBN 9780393930252
• The Iliad, ISBN 9780140275360
• Nibelungenlied, ISBN 9780140441376
• Song of Roland, ISBN 9780486422404

514 Sam Shepard

• Sam Shepard: Seven Plays, ISBN 9780553346114
• Spy of the First Person, ISBN 9780525521563
• Fool for Love and Other Plays, ISBN 9780553345902
• Great Dream of Heaven, ISBN 9780375704529
• Hawk Moon, 9780933826236

522 Humanism in Renaissance Texts

• The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism, ISBN 9780521436243

540 Ulysses

Required:

• Ulysses, ISBN 9780394743127. This is the single-volume Gabler edition. Dozens of used copies are currently available at Alibris for under $5. Powell’s is selling new copies for $10.50. Almost every edition of Ulysses is different than the others, and so if you have a copy of Ulysses already it will be different than this Gabler edition. Everyone should secure this assigned edition.
• Ulysses Annotated, ISBN 9780520253971.

Recommended:

• If you have the time, you’d do well to read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (and perhaps some or all of Dubliners) before the spring semester begins, but it is not required. The protagonist of Portrait carries over into and plays an essential role in Ulysses so your experience with Ulysses will be fuller if you’ve read Portrait.

542 Classics of African-American Lit.

• Clybourne Park, ISBN 9780865478688
• Intimate Apparel, ISBN 9781559362795
• Sweat, ISBN 9781559365321
• Jitney, ISBN 9780573627958
• Venus, ISBN 9780822215677
• Topdog/Underdog, ISBN 9781559362016
• Gloria, ISBN 9780822234333
• A Mercy, ISBN 9780307276766
• An American Marriage, ISBN 9781616208776

546 Working Women in the US

• Dr. Breen’s Practice, ISBN 9781981189427
• Very Much a Lady, ISBN 9781416509592

Recommended but not required (scans of sections of this will be provided as needed during the semester):

• Working Women in American Literature 1865-1950, ISBN 9781498546782