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Extra Reading


(GENERAL LIST OF BASIC SOURCES NOT ALREADY LISTED IN THE WEEKLY SYLLABUS)


Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 2006 (1983))
J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come (London: Fourth Estate, 2014 (2007))
Ed. Jeanette Baxter, J.G Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (London: Continuum 2009)
Robert Boyers, Laing and Anti-Psychiatry (London: Penguin, 1973)
ed. Alexander Broadie, The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge: CUP, 2003)
eds. Brown, Clancy, Manning, Pittock, The Edinburgh HIstory of Scottish Literature, Vol 3 (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007)
Angus Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (London: Johnathan Cape, 1991)
Stanley Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics (London: Routledge, 2011)
David Cooper, The Language of Madness (1978)
Merlin Coverley, Psychogeography (Pocket Essentials, 2010)
ed. Cairns Craig, The History of Scottish Literature, Vol. 4, The Twentieth Century (Aberdeen: Aberdeen UP, 1987)
Cairns Craig, 'Resisting Arrest: James Kelman', in eds. Randall and Wallace, The Scottish Novel Since the Seventies (Edinburgh: EUP, 1993)
Cairns Craig, Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and English Culture (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1996)
Cairns Craig, The Modern Scottish Novel (Edinburgh: EUP, 1999)
Robert Crawford, Devolving English Literature (Edinburgh: EUP, 2001 (1992))
G.E. Davie, The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century (Ednburgh: EUP, 2013 (1961))
William Davies, The Limits of Neoliberalism (London: Sage, 2014)
Daniel Defoe, History of the Union (any edition (1709))
Jacques Derrida et al. Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx (London: Verso 2008)
ed. Owen Dudley Edwards, A Claim of Right for Scotland (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1989)
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (Winchester: Zer0, 2009)
Mark Fisher, 'What is Hauntology?' Film Quaterly Vol.66 No.1 pp.16-24
ed. Martin Fradley, Shane Meadows: Critical Essays (Edinburgh: EUP 2013)
Samuel Francis, The Psychological Fictions of J.G Ballard (London Bloomsbury 2013)
Andrew Gamble, The Strong Economy and the Free State (1988)
Stuart Hall et al., Policing the Crisis (London: Palgrave 2013 (1978))
Stuart Hall, Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left (London: Verso, 1988)
Stuart Hall, Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (London: Routledge 1999)
ed. Gerry Hassan, The Modern SNP: From Protest to Power (Edinburgh: EUP, 2009)
Owen Hatherley, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (London: Verso, 2011)
Owen Hatherley Militant Modernism (Winchester: Zer0, 2014)
eds. Michael Gardiner and Willy Maley, The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark (Edinburgh: EUP, 2011)
Michael Gardiner, The Return of England in English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012)
Michael Gardiner, The Constitution of English Literature (London: Bloomsbury, 2013)
Michael Gardiner, Time and Action in the Scottish Independence Referendum (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015)
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules (London: Random House, 2015)
Felix Guattari, 'The Divided Laing' in ed. Gary Genosko, The Guattari Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996 (1970))
ed. Scott Hames, The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (2010)
Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present (Routledge, 2004 (1977))
wr. and dir. Derek Jarman, Jubilee (1978)
wr. and dir. Derek Jarman, The Last of England (1988)
Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925)
Michael Keating, Nations Against the State (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001 (1996))
dir. Patrick Keiller, Robinson in Ruins (2011)
Patrick Keiller, The View From The Train: Cities and other Landscapes (London: Verso, 2014)
James Kelman, A Chancer (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2009 (1985))
James Kelman, A Disaffection (London: Vintage, 1999 (1989))
James Kelman, The Good Times (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2008 (1998))
James Kelman, And the Judges Said: Essays (2002)
R.D. Laing, The Divided Self (1960)
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991)
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government (any edition (1689))
David McCrone, Understanding Scotland: Sociology of a Stateless Nation (any edition (1989))
Iain McLean, What's Wrong With the British Constitution? (Oxford: OUP, 2010)
John McLeod, Postcolonial London (London: Routledge, 2004)
ed. Martin McQuillan, Theorising Muriel Spark (Bastingstoke: Palgrave, 2000)
Richard Mabey, The Unofficial Countryside (London: Little Toller Books 2010)
Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (London: Faber and Faber 2014 (1989))
ed. Tom Maschler, Declaration (London: McKIbbon and Kee, 1957)
John Medhurst, That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974-76 (Winchester: Zer0, 2014)
The Miners' Campaign Tapes DVD (2009)
Tom Nairn, After Britain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland (London: Granta, 2000)
Duncan Petrie, Contemporary Scottish Fictions: Film, Television and the Novel (Edinburgh: EUP, 2004)
Mary Poovey, Genres of the Credit Economy (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2008)
Nikos Pulantzas, State, Power, Socialism (London: Verso, 2014 (1978))
Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstacy (London: Routledge 1999)
Alan Riach, Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture, and Iconography (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)
Nikolas Rose, Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (London: Free Association, 1999 (1991))
Jon Savage, England's Dreaming (London: Faber and Faber, 2005 (1991))
ed. Berthold Schoene, The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007)
ed. Berthold Schoene, The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh (Edinburgh: EUP, 2010)
Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (any edition (1958))
Situationist International, Anthology of Sources and Documents Online: www.bopsecrets.org/si/index/html
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (any edition (1776))
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (London: Granta, 2014)
Ivor Southwood, Non-Stop Inertia (Winchester: Zer0, 2011)
Muriel Spark, Robinson (any edition (1958))
Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010 (1961))
David Torrance, 'We in Scotland': Thatcherism in a Cold Climate (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2009)
Peter Trudgill, Sociolinguistics: an introduction to language and society (London: Penguin, 2000 (1974))
Alwyn Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s (London: Aurum, 2013 (2008))
Universities and Left Review 1957-60
various directors, Free Cinema (London: BFI, 2006 (1952-63))
eds. Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner, Literature of an Independent England (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013)
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (any edition (1958))