Module 1. Language Structure (8 credits)

Main reading

• Estling Vannestål, Maria, A university grammar of English: with a Swedish perspective, Second edition, Lund, Studentlitteratur, [2015]Compulsory*
• Schmitt, Diane; Schmitt, Norbert, Focus on vocabulary.: mastering the academic word list, 2. ed., White Plains, N.Y., Pearson Longman, c2011Compulsory*
• Rönnerdal, Göran; Johansson, Stig, Introducing English pronunciation, Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2005Compulsory*
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.., senaste uppl., London, LongmanCompulsory*

Reference and additional material

• Crystal, David, Rediscover grammar, Rev. ed., London, Longman, 2004
• Florby, Gunilla; Fält, Erik, Grammatiskt ABC: grammatiska termer och begrepp för effektiva språkstudier, 2. uppl., Uppsala, Scripta textproduktion, 1998
• Johansson, Stig; Rönnerdal, Göran, English pronunciation: a handbook, 2., [rev.]ed., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 1993
• Norstedts stora svensk-engelska ordbok =: Norstedts comprehensive Swedish-English dictionary, 3., [utök.] uppl., Stockholm, Norstedts ordbok, 2000
• Norstedts stora engelsk-svenska ordbok =: Norstedts comprehensive English-Swedish dictionary, 3., [utök.] uppl., Stockholm, Norstedts ordbok, 2000

Material for self-study

• Johansson, Stig; Rönnerdal, Göran, English pronunciation: a handbook. A workbook, 3. uppl., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 1993
• Sager Svartvik, Olof Jan, Modern engelsk grammatik., senaste uppl., Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell/Liber
• Svartvik, Jan; Sager, Olof, Modern engelsk grammatik. Övningsbok 2, senaste uppl., Stockholm, Liber

Digital and photocopied material.

Module 2. Academic Writing in English (7 credits)

Secondary Reading

• Falk, Angela, Thinking and writing in academic contexts: a university companion, 1. ed., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2011

Digital and photocopied material.

Module 3. Introduction to English Linquistics (5 credits)

Main reading

• Yule, George, The study of language, Seventh edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, [2020]Compulsory* (You can also use the previous edition from 2017.)

Digital and photocopied material.

Module 4. Literature (10 credits)

The module consists of two parts. All students take the same version of part 1. Part 2 is a themed reading course.

Main reading

• Brontë, Charlotte, Jane EyreCompulsory* (Must be this edition.)
• Mays, Kelly J., The Norton introduction to literature, Shorter 12. ed., New York, Norton, 2016Compulsory*

Part 2, Theme A: Literary Monsters

• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Hunter, J. Paul, Frankenstein: the 1818 text, contexts, criticism, 2nd ed., New York, W.W. Norton & Co., c2012Compulsory* (Must be this edition.)
• Mays, Kelly J., The Norton introduction to literature, Shorter 12. ed., New York, Norton, 2016Compulsory*

Part 2, Theme B: 'Elsewhere', Borders, frontiers, literature

• Coetzee, J. M., Waiting for the barbarians, New York, Penguin, 1982Compulsory*
• Syal, Meera, Anita and me, London, Flamingo, 1997, cop. 1996Compulsory*
• Cisneros, Sandra, Woman hollering creek and other stories, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed, New York, Vintage Books, 1992Compulsory* (Only "Never Marry a Mexican" is read.)
• Mays, Kelly J., The Norton introduction to literature, Shorter 12. ed., New York, Norton, 2016Compulsory*

Part 2, Theme C: Writing the Modern City

• Cunningham, Michael, The hours., New York, Farrar, 1999Compulsory*
• Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway., Repr., Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972Compulsory*
• Mays, Kelly J., The Norton introduction to literature, Shorter 12. ed., New York, Norton, 2016Compulsory*

Part 2, Theme D: Mystery and Madness in Literature

• Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland: authoritative texts of Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; Through the looking-glass ; The hunting of the snark: backgrounds, essays in criticism, 2. ed., New York, Norton, cop. 1992Compulsory*
• McEwan, Ian, Enduring love, London, Vintage, 1998Compulsory*
• Poe, Edgar Allan, The fall of the house of Usher and other tales, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]Compulsory*
• Mays, Kelly J., The Norton introduction to literature, Shorter 12. ed., New York, Norton, 2016Compulsory*

Part 2, Theme E: The Maritime Imaginary

• Conrad, Joseph, Typhoon and other stories, London, Penguin, 2007Compulsory*
• "The Wreck of the Deutschland", Part of: The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ware, Wordsworth, 1994Compulsory*
• Mays, Kelly J., The Norton introduction to literature, Shorter 12. ed., New York, Norton, 2016Compulsory*

Part 2, Theme F: War Literature

• Crane, Stephen, The red badge of courage: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism, 3. ed., New York, Norton, 1994Compulsory*
• Vonnegut, Kurt, Mother night, Dial Press trade paperback ed., New York, N.Y., Dial Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Mays, Kelly J., The Norton introduction to literature, Shorter 12. ed., New York, Norton, 2016Compulsory*

Digital and photocopied material.

* Compulsory