Main group 1

American and English Literature Specialisation. Main Reading

Selected sections of the following.

• James, Henry, The turn of the screw: complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives, 2, BostonCompulsory*
• Stevenson, Robert Louis; NetLibrary, Inc., Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.., Raleigh, N.C., Alex Catalogue ; Boulder, Colo., [199-?]Compulsory*

American and English Literature Specialisation. Secondary Reading

• Culler, Jonathan, Literary theory: a very short introduction., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, c1997Compulsory*

Material within the selected subject.

Langauge Specialisation. Main Reading

• Lagerholm, Per, Språkvetenskapliga uppsatser, 2. uppl., Studentlitteratur AB, 2010Compulsory*

Handout with articles about theory and methodology. Material within the selected subject.

Component 2: Writing American Selves: Fictional and Non-Fictional Self-Portraiture, 7.5 credits

Main Reading

8-10 of the titles below will be selected by the teacher. Selected texts are marked as "Mandatory".

• Angelou, Maya, I know why the caged bird sings, 32. pr., New York, Bantam, 1971, pr. 1988
• Antin, Mary, The promised land, London, Heinemann, 1912
• Baldwin, James, Notes of a native son., [New ed.], reiss., London, Corgi, 1969Compulsory*
• Bechdel, Alison, Fun home: a family tragicomic, 1st Mariner Books ed., Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2007
• Burroughs, Stephen, Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs.: [Two lines of verse] Copy right secured., [Hanover], Printed at Hanover, Newhampshire by Benjamin True, MDCCXCVIII. [1798] (Excerpts)
• Cather, Willa, A lost lady, [New ed.], London, Virago, 1980
• Cisneros, Sandra, The house on Mango Street., New York, Vintage, 1991
• Danticat, Edwidge, Brother, I'm dying, 1st Vantage books ed., New York, Vantage Books, 2008
• Didion, Joan, The year of magical thinking, London, Fourth Estate, 2005
• Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1986
• Eggers, Dave, What is the what: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2007
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Dikter i urval
• Franklin, Benjamin, The private life of the late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. ...: Originally written by himself, and now translated from the French. To which are added, some account of his public life, a variety of anecdotes ... by M. M. Brissot, Condorcet, Rochefoucault, Le Roy, &c.&c. and the eulogium of M. Fauchet, ..., London, printed for J. Parsons, 1793
• Ginsberg, Allen, Howl, and other poems, [S.l.] : Martino Fine Books, 2014.
• Gaines, Ernest J., The autobiography of miss Jane Pittman, New York, Bantam, 1981
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The scarlet letter., Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1994
• Hemingway, Ernest, In our time, New York, Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1996Compulsory*
• Hoffman, Eva, Lost in translation: a life in a new language, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., Penguin Books, 1990
• Johnson, James Weldon, The autobiography of an ex-colored man, London, X Press, 1995
• Kincaid, Jamaica, Lucy., 1. ed., New York, Farrar, 1990
• Kingston, Maxine Hong, The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts., London, Lane, 1977
• Lee, Chang-rae, Native speaker, London, Granta, 1998, c1995
• Mailer, Norman, The armies of the night, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, 1968, pr. 1971
• Mailer, Norman, Advertisements for myself, New York, Putnam, 1959
• Nelson, Maggie, The argonauts, Minneapolis, MN, Graywolf Press, 2015Compulsory*
• Plath, Sylvia, The bell jar, London, Faber and Faber, 2005Compulsory*
• Rich, Adrienne, Dikter i urval
• Roth, Henry, Call it sleep., New York, Avon, 1964
• Roth, Philip., The human stain, London, Vintage, 2001, c2000Compulsory*
• Rowlandson, Mary White, The narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
• Said, Edward W., Out of place: a memoir, [New ed.], London, Granta, 2000
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, Storyteller, New York, Seaver Books, cop. 1981
• Solnit, Rebecca, Savage dreams: a journey into the hidden wars of the American West, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, cop. 1994Compulsory*
• Stein, Gertrude, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990
• Thompson, Hunter S., Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream, 2nd Vintage Books ed, New York, Vintage Books, 1998Compulsory*
• Thoreau, Henry David; Cramer, Jeffrey S., Waldenb a fully annotated edition, New Haven, Yale University Press, c2004Compulsory*
• Twain, Mark; Frank, Elizabeth, Roughing it, New York, N.Y., Signet Classics, [2008]
• Wolff, Tobias, This boy's life, London, Picador, 1990

Whitman, Walt. Selected poetry. Mandatory

An additional selection of literary criticism.

Component 3. English Literature and the Canon: Tradition and Innovation, 7.5 credits

Main Reading

8-10 of the titles below will be selected by the teacher.

• Achebe, Chinua, Things fall apart, [New ed.], London, Penguin in association with Heinemann African Writers Series, 2001
• Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey: authoritative texts, backgrounds, criticism, New York, W. W. Norton, c2004
• Empire writing: an anthology of colonial literature 1870-1918, Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998
• Carter, Angela, Wise children, [New ed.], London, Vintage, 1992
• Collins, Wilkie, The woman in white, London, Penguin, 1999
• Conrad, Joseph, Heart of darkness: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism, 4. ed., New York ;a London, W.W. Norton, 2006
• Dickens, Charles; Bradbury, Nicola., Bleak House, London, Penguin, 2003
• Dixon, Ella Hepworth.; Farmer, Steve, The story of a modern woman
• Gray, Alasdair., Poor things: episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer, [Paperback ed.], London, Bloomsbury, c1992, 2002
• Shakespeare, William; Hibbard, G. R., Hamlet
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Hindle, Maurice, Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus, Rev. ed., London, Penguin, 2003
• Waters, Sarah, Fingersmith, New York, Virago, 2003

Selected literary criticism.

Component. 4. Communities, Speakers, Texts, 7.5 credits

Main Reading

• Meyerhoff, Miriam., Introducing sociolinguistics, 2nd ed., Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2011Compulsory*
• Cutting, Joan., Pragmatics: a resource book for students, Third edition., Routledge, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 2015Compulsory*
• The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012
• Thomas, Jenny, Meaning in interaction: an introduction to pragmatics, London, Longman, 1995

Component 5. Investigating the structure of English then and now, 7.5 credits

Main Reading

• Aarts, Bas, English syntax and argumentation, 4th edition., Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Compulsory*
• Hogg, Richard M.; Alcorn, Rhona., An introduction to Old English, 2nd ed., Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, c2012Compulsory*

* Compulsory