Working Bibliography

Suggested readings by Prof Mike Marais (19 May 2025)

Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” Image, Music, Text, translated by Stephen Heath, Hill and Wang, 1977, pp. 142–148.

Owens, Craig. “The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism.” Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture, edited by Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock, University of California Press, 1992, pp. 52–69.

Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. Edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin, Philosophical Library, 1959, pp. 65–122.

Steiner, George. Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman. Yale University Press, 1986, pp. 95–109.

Additions: 18 May 2025

Donohue, J. L. A. “Silence as Complicity and Action as Silence.” Philosophical Studies, vol. 181, no. 12, 2024, pp. 3499–3519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02246-z.

Abdulzahra, Hasanain Riyadh, et al. “Disciplinary Power, Surveillance, and the Docile Body in Mark Dunn’s Ella Minnow Pea.” Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 29, no. 4, 2021, pp. 2675–90. https://doi.org/10.47836/pjssh.29.4.31.

Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Cornell University Press, 1981.

Kelly, Adam, and Will Norman. “Literature and Complicity: Then and Now.” Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 56, no. 4, 2019, pp. 673–692.

Mihai, Mihaela. “Understanding Complicity: Memory, Hope and the Imagination.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 5, 2019, pp. 504–522.

Phelan, James. Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology. Ohio State University Press, 1996.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 271–313.

Zipes, Jack. Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre. Routledge, 2006.

Updated: 30 April 2025

Abdulzahra, Zahraa, et al. “The Politics of Letters: A Semiotic Reading of Language and Power in Ella Minnow Pea.” Journal of Language and Politics, vol. 19, no. 3, 2020, pp. 421–440.

Andersen, Hans Christian. The Emperor’s New Clothes. Translated by Jean Hersholt, Houghton Mifflin, 1949.

Dunn, Mark. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters. MacAdam/Cage, 2001.

Fletcher, Angus. Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode. Cornell University Press, 1964.

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton University Press, 1957.

Genette, Gérard. Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree. Translated by Channa Newman and Claude Doubinsky, University of Nebraska Press, 1997.

Kristeva, Julia. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Edited by Leon S. Roudiez, translated by Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine, and Leon S. Roudiez, Columbia University Press, 1980.

Miller, J. Hillis. The Ethics of Reading. Columbia University Press, 1987.

Robbins, Hollis. “The Emperor’s New Critique.” New Literary History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2012, pp. 359–379.

Schutte, N. “Die Keiser (Bartho Smit).” Literator, vol. 2, no. 1, 1 May 1981, pp. 11–22.

Smit, Bartho. Die Keiser. Tafelberg, 1984.

Tatar, Maria, editor. The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen. W. W. Norton, 2008.

Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. Routledge, 2006.