To read in advance:

Although students are encouraged to have read the course texts before arrival, they are required to read only the listed texts of two authors from the list below  in their entirety, but must also gain a familiarity with the listed writings of the remaining three.

Additional reading:

L. Carroll, Alice’s adventures in Wonderland (1865).

 

—— Through the looking glass (1871).

 

C.S. Lewis, ‘Sometimes fairy stories may say best what’s to be said’, in Of this and other worlds, ed. W. Hooper (1982).

 

—— The chronicles of Narnia [7 vols.: The magician’s nephew (1955), The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe (1950), Prince Caspian (1951), The voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), The silver chair (1953), The horse and his boy (1954), The last battle (1956)].

 

P. Pullman, Northern lights (1995) [published in the United States as The golden compass].

 

J.R.R. Tolkien, ‘On faerie stories’, in Tree and leaf (1964).

 

—— The hobbit (1937).

 

O. Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray (1890-1).

 

—— The complete shorter fiction, ed. I. Murray (1998) [esp. ‘The selfish giant’, ‘The happy prince’, ‘The star child’, and ‘The fisherman and his soul’].