Main group 1

American and English Literature Specialisation. Secondary Reading

• Culler, Jonathan, Literary theory: a very short introduction., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, c1997

Material within the selected subject.

Langauge Specialisation. Main Reading

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

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

Reference and additional material Linguistics

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

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

Main Reading

• Whitman, Walt, Leaves of grass and other writings: authoritative texts, other poetry and prose, criticism, New York, Norton, 2001Compulsory*
• Baldwin, James, Notes of a native son., [New ed.], reiss., London, Corgi, 1969Compulsory*
• Baldwin, James, I am not your negro, London, Penguin Books, 2017Compulsory*
• Nelson, Maggie, The argonauts, Minneapolis, MN, Graywolf Press, 2015Compulsory*
• Roth, Philip., The human stain, London, Vintage, 2001, c2000Compulsory*
• Hejinian, Lyn., My Life and My Life in the Nineties, Wesleyan University Press, 2013Compulsory*
• Danticat, Edwidge, Brother, I'm dying, 1st Vantage books ed., New York, Vantage Books, 2008Compulsory*

Selected poetry

An additional selection of literary criticism.

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

Main Reading

• Achebe, Chinua, Things fall apart, [New ed.], London, Penguin in association with Heinemann African Writers Series, 2001Compulsory*
• Carter, Angela, Wise children, [New ed.], London, Vintage, 1992Compulsory*
• Collins, Wilkie, The woman in white, New ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996Compulsory*
• Conrad, Joseph, Heart of darkness: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism, 4. ed., New York ;a London, W.W. Norton, 2006Compulsory*
• Gray, Alasdair., Poor things: episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer, [Paperback ed.], London, Bloomsbury, c1992, 2002Compulsory*
• Shakespeare, William; Hibbard, G. R., HamletCompulsory*
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Hindle, Maurice, Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus, Rev. ed., London, Penguin, 2003Compulsory*
• Waters, Sarah, Fingersmith, London, Virago, 2002Compulsory*

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, Fifth Edition., London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Compulsory*
• Hogg, Richard M.; Alcorn, Rhona., An introduction to Old English, 2nd ed., Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, c2012Compulsory* (Also available as paperback edition.)

* Compulsory