Main group 1

Some material will be made available or is already available on-line. Recommended texts can be found at various sources. Students should otherwise acquire the required texts with the ISBN numbers below.

Theoretical texts

• Baudrillard, Jean, Symbolic exchange and death, London, Sage Publications, 1993Compulsory*
• Mauss, Marcel, The gift: the form and reason for exchange in archaic societies, London, Routledge, 2002Compulsory* (Selection)
• Derrida, Jacques; Dufourmantelle, Anne, Of hospitality, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 2000 (Recommended)
• Freud, Sigmund, Beyond the pleasure principle, Rev. ed., Hogarth P.; Institute of Psycho-analysis, 1961 (Recommended)

Piot, Charles. "Exchange, Hierarchies of Value in an Economy of Desire". (Obligatory)

Literature

• Dickens, Charles, A Christmas carol and other Christmas writings, London, Penguin, 2003Compulsory*
• Dinesen, Isak, Anecdotes of destiny, London, Penguin, 2001Compulsory*
• Greene, Graham, Doctor Fischer of Geneva: or, The bomb party, London, Vintage, 1999Compulsory*
• Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never let me go, [New ed.], London, Faber and Faber, 2006Compulsory*
• Pinter, Harold, The birthday party, [New ed.], London, Faber and Faber, 1991Compulsory*
• Pinter, Harold, The homecoming, London, Faber and Faber, 1991Compulsory*
• Shaw, Bernard; Laurence, Dan H., Heartbreak House: a fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes, London, Penguin Books, 2000Compulsory*

Christina Rossetti. Poems. On-line: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/christina-rossetti#about

* Compulsory