The Romance, Gillian Beer
Sex & Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1859, Eva Figes
The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar.
Romanticism: Vistas, Instances, Continuities, Thorburn Hartman
The Representation of Women in Fiction
The Romantic Hero and his Heirs in French Literature, Lloyd
Sexual Textual Politics, Toril Moi
The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature & Theory
The Romantic Manifesto: an anthology
Jane Austen, Tony Tanner
The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis, Constance Penley
Re-Visions: Essays in Fem. Film Crit., Doane, Mellencamp, Wms.
French Fiction Today: A New Direction, Leon Roudiez
Three Decades of the French New Novel, Ed. Lois Oppenheim.
Twentieth Century French Fiction: Essays for Germaine Bree.
A Tale of Poor Lovers, Vasco Pratolini
French Novelists of Today, Henri Peyre
Mimesis: Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Auerbach *
Existential Prisons: Captivity in Mid 20th Century Literature, Freese-Witt
Il Silenzio delle Madri: Vittorini. et al, Antonio Di Grado
Contemporary French Literature: 1945 & After, Gaetan Picon
The Business of Living (Diary: 1935-50), Cesare Pavese
The Smile of the Gods: A Thematic Study of Cesare Pavese's Works, Gian-Paolo Biasin
Italia e Francia nel secondo dopoguerra: il caso Vittorini-Sartre, Anna Maria Cittadini Cipri
Recent Theories of Narrative, Martin, Wallace
Rise of the Novel, Ian Watt (rr)
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature, Erich Auerbach
Boccaccio's Two Venuses, Robert Hollander
Boccaccio and Fiammetta: the Narrator as Lover, Janet L. Smarr
The Book of the Courtier, Castiglione
The Age of Humanism: 1480-1530, Andre Chastel
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva
Ogni Dipintore Dipinge Se': A Neo-Platonic Echo in Leonardo's Art, Martin Kemp
The New Life/La Vita Nuova, Dante Translated by Dante G. Rossetti.
Paradiso, Dante Trans. Dorothy L. Sayers & Barbara Reynolds.
Venus in Sackcloth: The Magdalen's Origins and Metamorphoses, Marjorie Malvern
Misogyny, Misandry and Misanthropy, Ed. Bloch & Frances Ferguson.
Studies in Iconology, Panofsky
The Ladies of Dante's Lyrics, Charles Grandgent
The Figure of Beatrice, Charles Williams
Dante, Beatrice & the Divine Comedy, Charles Tomlinson
Literary Sources of Art History.
Le Vite, Giorgio Vasari (1913 ed.)
Lives of the Artist, Translation by George Bull. Penguin 1965.
The Poetry of Petrarch, Translation by Marion Shore
Vision and Rennaissance Analogues, Julia Conway Bondanella.
The Renaissance: Essays in Interpretation. Chastel, Kristeller, Grayson, Hall, Hay, Rubinstein, Schmitt, Trinkhaus, Ullmann
Rewriting the Renaissance, Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers
Feminism & Art History , Garrard, Mary & Norma Broude, Eds.
Questioning the Litany
The Poetics of Ariosto, Marianne Shapiro
Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, Edgar Wind
Art Through the Ages, Helen Gardner (rr)
Ficino and Renaissance Neo-Platonism Ed. EisenBichler & Pugliese
Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy, Michael Baxandall **
Maria Zef Paola Drigo (trans Blossom S. Kirschenbaum)
La Citta e la Casa, Natalia Ginzburg
On Glory Roads: A Pilgrim's Book about Pilgrimage, Eleanor Munro.
The Little Virtues, Natalia Ginsburg
Annali d'Italianistica, on film & lit.
Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature, David Quint
Literary Theory and Renaissance Texts, D. Quint & Patricia Parker
The Survival of the Pagan Gods, Jean Seznec
Family Sayings, Natalia Ginsburg (autobiog.)
History: A Novel, Elsa Morante *
The Historical Novel, George Lukacs
Woman at War, Dacia Maraini
After the Divorce, Grazia Deledda
Lettere agli amici milanesi, C.E. Gadda
A Hero of Our Times, Vasco Pratolini
Difficult Loves; Smog; A Plunge Into Real Estate, Italo Calvino
Never Must You Ask Me, Natalia Ginzburg
Cosima, Grazia Deledda. (Trans. Martha King)
Mensogna e Sortilegio, Elsa Morante (House of Liars)
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
Fortune is a Woman: Gender & Politics in the Thought of Machiavelli, Hannah Fenichel Pitkin
La disarmonia prestabilita: studio su Gadda, G.C. Roscioni
Naked Streets, Vasco Pratolini (Il Quartiere)
Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Eros & Priapo, Carlo Emilio Gadda
L'Adalgisa: Disegni Milanesi, Gadda
Il palazzo degli ori, Gadda
Fontamara, Ignazio Silone
The Mother, Grazia Deledda
Vasco Pratolini: Development of a Social Novelist, Frank Rosengarten
L'Agnese va a morire, Renata Vigano *
The Watch, Carlo Levi
Monuments & Maidens, Marina Warner
Mr. Aristotle, Ignazio Silone
Guest of Honor, Irving Wallace
D'Annunzio: The Poet as Superman, Anthony Rhodes.
Letters to Marina, Dacia Maraini
The Story of a Humble Christian, Silone
What Am I Doing Here, Bruce Chatwin
Metello, Vasco Pratolini
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
After the Great Divide: Modernism Mass Culture & Post-Modernism, Andreas Huyssens*
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Douglas Adams
The Fox & the Camellias, Ignazio Silone. (Translated Eric Mosbacher)
[teaching texts]
Story of Modern Art Lynton
History of Modern Art Arnson
Concepts of Modern Art
Theories of Modern Art
La Meccanica, Gadda
Rube, Borgese (1923)
Hinduism, Louis Renou
Running Wild, J.G. Ballard
Eva Luna, Isabelle Allende
Birth of the Clinic, Foucault (selections re-read)
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology & the Scientific Revolution, Carolyn Merchant
An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron, Millicent Marcus
Nature and Love in the Late Middle Ages, Aldo Scaglione
Fabula vs Figura: Another Interpretation of the Griselda Story, Marga Cottino-Jones
Machiavelli in Hell, Sebastian De Grazia
Michelangelos's Florence & Dante's an essay in Comparative History, Charles Le Guin
The Renaissance Notion of Woman, Ian MacLean
Italian Humanism: Dante & Petrarch, Rocco Montano
Selected Poems, Petrarch. Trans. Anthony Mortimer.
Petrarch: The Augustan Poets, the Italian Tradition and the Canzoniere, Jennifer Petrie
Three Italian Novelists: Moravia, Pavese, Vittorini, Donald Heiney
Writers and Society in Contemporary Italy, Michael Caesar and Peter Hainsworth
The Modern Italian Novel: from Pea to Moravia, Sergio Pacifici
From Futurism to Neo‑Realism Essays on the Modern Italian Novel
From Verismo to Experimentalism: Essays on the Modern Italian Novel
The Italian Resistance Novel (1945-1962), Frank Rosengarten
All Our Yesterdays, Natalia Ginzburg *
Italian Cinema: from Neo-Realism to the Present, P. Bondanella (rr)
Narrative and Drama: Essays in Modern Italian Literature, Olga Ragusa
The Italian Cinema, Pierre Leprohon
Struggles in the Italian Film Industry During Fascism, Elaine Mancini
Il Gran Lombardo, Giulio Cattaneo (on Gadda)
Leggere Gadda: antologia della critica gaddiana, Ceccaroni
Italian Fiction from Pavese to Pasolini, Dante Della Terza
The Neo‑Realists and the Form of the Novel, Della Terza
Moral Committment & Invention in Gadda's Poetics, Robert Dombroski
Invito alla lettura di C.E. Gadda, Ernesto Ferrero
L'uomo dei topazi saggio psicoanalitico, un saggio su Gadda, Elio Gioanola
A Vocabulary Analysis of Gadda's Pasticciaccio, Joan McConnel
From Engagement to Alienation: A View of Contemp. Italian Lit, Sergio Pacifici
A Love Affair, Dino Buzzati
Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice
The Sand Child, Tahar ben Jelloun
New Islands & Other Stories, Maria Luisa Bombal
Women's Voices in Italian Literature
Critique of Commodity Aesthetics, Haug (rr) *
Intensive Journal Workshop, Ira Progoff
The Advertisement, Natalia Ginzburg (L'Inserzione)
Popular Film Culture in Fascist Italy, James Hay
Childhood, Nathalie Sarraute
The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing & the Human Condition, Arthur Kleinman
The Blood of Others, Simone de Beauvoir (rr)
The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
The Lady & the Little Fox Fur, Violette Leduc
Voices in the Evening, Natalia Ginzburg
The Golden Buttons, Violette Leduc
Manhood, Michel Leiris
Caro Michele, N Ginzburg (rr)
Autobiographical Tightropes, Leah D. Hewitt [Sarraute, Beauvoir, Duras, Wittig, Conde]
Masks of Tradition: Women and the Politics of Writing in 20th Century France, Martha Noel Evans [Colette, deBeauvoir, Leduc, Duras, Cixous, Wittig]
La Folie en Tete, Violette Leduc.
Serena Cruz o la vera giustizia, Natalia Ginzburg
The Eagle's Gift, Carlos Castenada
Alibi, Elsa Morante (poems)
The Politics of Metaphor: Dialectics of Oppression in Miguel Angel Asturias and Elsa Morante, Teresa McKenna. (PhD Diss.)
The Woman Destroyed, Simone deBeauvoir (3 novellas)
She Came to Stay [L'Invitee], Simone de Beauvoir
Hearts & Minds: The Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre, Axel Madsen
Women of the Road, Elio Vittorini
Valentino; Sagittarius, Natalia Ginzburg (novellas, Trans. Avril Bardoni)
Family ; Borghesia, Natalia Ginzburg (novellas, Trans. Beryl Stockman)
The Dry Heart / The Road to the City
Feminism and Femininity in Marguerite Duras, Trista Selous.
Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing, Patricia Yaeger
Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice, Milan' Women's Bookstore Collective
Les Bouches Inutiles, Simone deBeauvoir (play)
Todo Modo, Leonardo Sciascia
Gender & Genius Towards a Feminist Aesthetics, Christine Battersby
Conjugal Love, Alberto Moravia
A Dream of Something, Pasolini
variety of books on health conditions to survey the field
Alienation & Absence in the Novels of Mgte. Duras, Carol J.Murphy
Woman to Woman [Les Parleuses] Duras & Xaviere ? dialogues
All Men Are Mortal, Simone de Beauvoir (rr)
Several books on filmmaker John Schlesinger
Pasolini books: Oswald Stack Interviews; Stephen Snyder;
Pia Friedrich; PPP & the Theatre of the Word, William Van Watson
The Poetics of Heresy, editor Bevely Allen
Migraine, Oliver Sacks
To Desire Differently: Feminism & French Cinema, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Narrative Patterns of Film Noir, J.P. Telotte
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
In Country, Bobbie Ann Mason
The Gem Ornament of Liberation, Kalu Rimpoche.
Maledetta Benedetta: Elsa e sua madre, Marcello Morante.
le Parole in guerra lingua e ideologia dell'Agnese va a morire, Andrea Battistini
Invito alla lettura di Elsa Morante, Carlo Sgorlon
Struttura e stile della narrative di Elsa Morante, Angelo R. Pupino
PhD dissertation on Natalia Ginzburg, Aine O'Healy
Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe
The Loony-Bin Trip, Kate Millet
Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K. Dick
Donatella Ravanello. Scrittura e follia nei romanzi di Elsa Morante
Il Castoro issue on Natalia Ginzburg
In Milt Lumsky Territory, Philip K. Dick
Migraine & the Allergy Connection, John Mansfield
Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
Operatic Lives, Alberto Savinio (autobiog...)
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (rr) **
Portrait of an Unknown Man, Natalie Sarraute
The Rebellion of the Hanged, B Traven (rr)
The Assignment, Fred. Durenmatt
PMLA journal issue on cinema
Close Encounters - Feminism and Science Fiction, ed Con. Penley
The Second Sex, Simone deBeauvoir
Searching, Nawal el Saadawi (Egypt)
My Childhood, Maxim Gorky *
Signatures of the Visible, Fred Jameson
(Famiglia / Borghesia, Nat. Ginzburg,rr)
Diary of A Madman & Other Stories, Nicolai Gogol
Neuromancer; Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson (trilogy)
1000 Cranes, Y Kawabata
Henry and Cato, Iris Murdoch
A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
The Ottoman Centuries, Lord Kinross (rr)
Numbers, John Rechy
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
Two Crimes, Jorge Ibanberguengoitia
Confessions of Felix Krull, Thomas Mann
The Colonel's Photograph & other stories, Eugene Ionesco
The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Under the Jaguar sun, Italo Calvino
Ferlinghetti: a biography, Neeli Cherkovski
After the Banquet, Yukio Mishima
Natalia Ginzburg, Alan Bullock
Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
Psychotherapy East and West, Alan Watts
Light, Eva Figes (fiction/Monet)
The Paper House, Francoise Mallet-Joris
Beard's Roman Women, Anthony Burgess
The Last Intellectuals, Russell Jacoby
Seeing the Way (essays on Buddhism)
After the Flood, Prince Constantine of Bavaria
The Prime of Life, Simone de Beauvoir (rr)
No Place on Earth, Christa Wolf
Feminism Without Women, Tania Modleski
Munster Village, Mary Hamilton
Journal d'un Inconnu, Jean Cocteau
Panegyric, Guy Debord (autobiog.)
A Woman a Man & Two Kingdoms: Mme D'Epinay & Abbe Galiani, Francis Steegmuller
Saving the Planet, Helen Caldicott
Letters (1924-25) of Alix and James Strachey
Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys
Her, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Holy War: The Crusades Impact Modern Middle-East, Karen Armstrong *
Il Doppio Regno, Paola Capriolo
The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema, Angela dalleVacche
Comments on Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
The Refinement of America: People Houses Cities, Richard Bushman
The Writer on Her Work, ed. Janet Sternburg
A Man Asleep; Things, Georges Perec
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, Michael Pollan *
Feminist Practice & Post-Structuralist Theory, Chris Weedon
Madeleine, Andre Gide
Toddlers & Parents: A Declaration of Independence, T.B. Brazelton
sci-fi short stories, Orson Scott Card
My Convent Life, George Sand
Hamlet's Mother & other essays, Caroline Heilbron
Four Lives in Paris, Hugh Ford (George Antheil; Margaret Anderson; Kay Boyle; Harold Sterns)
Fernhurst; Q.E.D. & Other Early Writings, Gertrude Stein
Short Stories (Life Being the Best, etc.), Kay Boyle
Avalanche, Kay Boyle
My Next Bride, Kay Boyle
Engendering the Subject: Gender & Representation in Contemporary Women's Fiction, Sally Robinson
Pikhal, Ann and Alexander Shulgin
The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War, Stewart Home
Villa, Paul Vangelisti
The Debut, Anita Brookner
The Blue Lantern, Colette
The Possessed Individual and the French Postmodern, Arthur Kroker
Fountain and Tomb, Nahguib Mafouz
The Age of Malaise, Dacia Maraini
Nobody Nowhere: Autobiography of an Autistic, Donna Williams
books on early childhood education Brazelton etc.
The Female Body in Western Culture, ed. Susan Suleiman
collected stories, Once a Catholic, Catholic Girls, Edna O'Brien
Dear Sarah Berhardt, Francoise Sagan
Voyeur, Alberto Moravia
The Revolution of Everyday Life, Raoul Vaneigem *
Pale Horse Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
The Children of Men, P.D. James
Poly-Text (for judging)
Wartime Writings 1939-44, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The House of Life, Mario Praz (autobiog) *
A Bridge Through Time, Laila Said
A Chorus of Stones, Susan Griffin *
How Fascism Ruled Women, Victoria de Grazia
I Give You My Word, Francoise Giroud
Chimaera: monographie, Lynn Hershman
Home Truths: 16 Stories, Mavis Gallant
The Lover of Horses, Tess Gallagher
The Silent Partner, Eliz. Stuart Phelps
Time and Narrative, Paul Ricoeur
In Transit, Mavis Gallant
Fairy Tales, E.E. Cummings
Family Album, Claribel Alegria (3 novellas)
Patriarch: George Washington & the New Nation, Smith
Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
Green History of the World: Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting *
Bodily Harm, Margaret Atwood
Story of My Life, George Sand *
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros
Technopoly, Neil Postman
Isabelle: the Life of Isabelle Eberhardt, Annette Kobak
The Great Power-Line Cover-up, Paul Brodeur
Outside, essays of M. Duras
Marguerite Duras Revisited, Marilyn R. Schuster
and other bks on D. (some re-read.) for diss.
The Buddhist Handbook, John Snelling
Sleepwalker in the Fog, Tatyana Tolstaya
The Science Question in Feminism, Sandra Harding
The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Amos Tutuola
The Last Man, Mary W. Shelley
Celebration, Mary Lee Settle
The Hysterical Male, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, eds.
Homeschooling for Excellence, David & Micki Colfax
Chi Kung, James MacRitchie
Home School/Taking the First Step, Borg Hendrikson
Warning the Electricity Around You..., Ellen Sugarman
Gendered By Design? Information Technology & Office Systems, E.Green, J. Owen, D. Pain
Wordsworth & the Enlightenment: Nature, Man & Society in the Experimental Poetry, Alan Bewell
The House of Childhood, Marie Louise Kaschnitz
Cleopatra's Sister, Penelope Lively
Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, Margaret Higgonet et al.
Tjukurrpa: Desert Dreamings Aboriginal Art from Central Australia *
Aboriginal Art, Wally Caruana. Thames & Hudson, 1993
Systems of Survival: a Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce & Politics, Jane Jacobs *
On Reading Ruskin, Marcel Proust
Much Depends on Dinner, Margaret Visser *
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Rennaissance & the Medieval Mind, William Manchester
Cannibal Eliot & the Lost Histories of S.F. Hilton Obenzinger
Working Time, Jane Miller (essays on poetry, culture & travel)
The Stones, Erica Pedretti
The Book of Embraces, Eduardo Galeano
Lucie's Long Voyage, Alina Reyes
Monsieur Venus, Rachilde
During Mother's Absence, Michele Roberts
Genet, Deborah Wineapple (biography of Janet Flanner)
The Passion of Michel Foucault, James Miller
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (Ed. Mary Morris)
Chaos and Order, Ed. Katherine Hayles
Full Spectrum 4: speculative fiction anthology
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science, Paul Gross and Norman Levitt
The Human Use of Human Beings:Cybernetics & Society, Norbert Weiner *
Intoxicated By My Illness, Anatole Broyard
Stories, Brion Gysin
The Book of Myths: Legends from around the World, Amy Cruse
Where the Mind Meets the Body, Harris Dienstfrey
I Had Nowhere to Go, Jonas Mekas (autobiog.) **
Visualization, Epstein
About Andrei Tarkovsky
The Tears of Eros, Georges Bataille
Crisis to Wellness, Jim Petullo
October November December
The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster
San Francisco Renaissance: Poetry & Community at Mid-Century, Michael Davidson
True Hallucinations, Terence McKenna
Facing the World with Soul: The Re-Imagination of Modern Life, Robert Sardello
poems, Rocco Ruggiero
Conjunctions & Disjunctions, Octavio Paz
Warlpiri Dreamings & Histories, Yimikirli
The Following Story, Cees Noteboom
A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
Old Chinese Ghost Stories, retold by Paul Quentin Forster
"Foresta Ultra Naturam", Giulia Niccolai & Emilio Villa
A History of Private Life: Revelations of /Medieval World, Philllipe Aries & Georges Duby
The Valentine Elegies, Tess Gallagher (poems)
Lifting Belly/Narration/4 lectures, 1935, Gertrude Stein
Smile Please, Jean Rhys , (autobiography)
Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje