Bibliography

[Arabic Alchemy]

Categories:

Prescribed Texts: Primary
Prescribed Texts: Secondary
Recommended Further Reading:

Prescribed Texts:

Primary

• Acker, Kathy: “Eurydice in the Underworld.” In Eurydice in the Underworld. London: Arcadia Books, 1997.


• Armstrong, Martin: “Sombrero.” 1929. In Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Part VI: Mystery and Horror. Ed. Dorothy L. Sayers. 1934 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1952): 519-38.


• Blake, William: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes. Paris: The Trianon Press / London: Oxford University Press, 1975.


• Carson, Anne: “The Fall of Rome.” In Glass, Irony, and God. New York: New Directions Publishing Company, 1992.


• Daibu, Lady: From The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu. Trans. Phillip Tudor Harries. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980.


• Davis, Lydia: “We Miss You: A Study of Get-Well Letters from a Class of Fourth-Graders.” In The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. 2009. Picador. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.


• Horrocks, Dylan: From Hicksville: A Comic Book. 1998. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 2010.


• Hyde, Robin: From The Book of Nadath. Ed. Michele Leggott. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.


• Kyle, Leicester: From Heteropholis. Mt Eden: Heteropholis Press, 1998.


• Macassey, Olivia: “The Uncanny Truth about Abelard.’ In brief 25 (2002): 39-41.


• Ondaatje, Michael: From The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems. The House of Anansi Press. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1970.


• ReadingPeter . From Perduta Gente. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989.


• Thompson, Hunter S. “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved.” In The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time. 1979. London: Picador, 1980.

Secondary

• Acker, Kathy: “The Invisible Universe.” In L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 4 (1982).


• Barthes, Roland: “The Pleasure of the Text.” In Selected Writings. Ed. Susan Sontag. 1982. Fontana Pocket Readers. Oxford: Fontana/Collins, 1983.


• Chabon, Michael. “Trickster in a Suit of Lights: Thoughts on the Modern Short Story.” In Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands. 2008. Fourth Estate. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.


• Lévi-Strauss, Claude: “The Oedipus Myth.” In Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. New York: Basic Books, 1963.


• Tedlock, Dennis: “Towards a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability.” In A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing. Ed. Jerome Rothenberg, Jerome, & Steven Clay. New York: Granary Books, 2000.

Recommended Further Reading

1. Bowring, Richard, trans. The Diary of Lady Murasaki. 1982. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.


2. Brazell, Karen, trans. The Confessions of Lady Nijō. 1304-7, 1975. London: Zenith, 1983.


3. Coe, Michael D. Breaking the Maya Code. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.


4. Kenko. Essays in Idleness. Trans. G. B. Sansom. Ed. Noel Pinnington. Wordsworth Classic of World Literature. Ware Hertfordshire: Wordsworth, 1998.


5. Martínez, José Luis. Nezahualcóyotl: Vida y Obra. 1972. Biblioteca Americana: Serie de Literatura Indigéna. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999.


6. Merrill, James. The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the whole of The Book of Ephraim, Mirabell’s Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant and a new coda, The Higher Keys. 1992. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.


7. Morris, Ivan, trans. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh Century Japan. 1971. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.


8. Omori, Annie Shepley & Kochi Doi, trans. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan: The Sarashina Diary; Diary of Murasaki Shikibu & Diary of Izumi Shikibu. Introduction by Amy Lowell. 1935. Tokyo: Kenkyushu Ltd., 1961.


9. Recinos, Adrián, ed. Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya. 1947. Trans. Delia Goetz & Sylvanus G. Morley. London: William Hodge & Company Limited, 1951.


10. Saravia E., Albertina, ed. Popol Wuj: Antiguas Historias de los Indios Quiches de Guatemala. Illustradas con dibujos de los Codices Mayas. 1965. “Sepan Cuantos …”, 36. Ciudad de México: Editorial Porrúa, S. A., 1986.


11. Seidensticker, Edward, trans. The Gossamer Years (Kagerō Nikki): The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan. 1964. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1981.


12. Seidensticker, Edward G. Genji Days. 1977. Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International, 1983.


13. Sodi M., Demetrio. La literatura de los Mayas. 1964. El Legado de la América Indígena. México: Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, S. A., 1974.