English B1
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN121
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Component 1. Language structure, basläromedel
- Biber, Douglas.; Leech, Geoffrey; Conrad, Susan., Longman student grammar of spoken and written English., Harlow, Longman, 2002Compulsory
- Estling Vannestål, Maria, A university grammar of English: with a Swedish perspective, Second edition, Lund, Studentlitteratur, [2015]Compulsory
Component 1. Language structure, referens- och fördjupningsläromedel
- Aarts, Bas; Weiner, Edmund S. C.; Chalker, Sylvia, The Oxford dictionary of English grammar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014
- Biber, Douglas; Conrad, Susan; Leech, Geoffrey N., Longman student grammar of spoken and written English.: Workbook, Harlow, Longman, 2002
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.., senaste uppl., London, Longman
Component 2. Academic writing in English Linguistics and Literature
- Björk, Lennart A.; Knight, Michael; Wikborg, Eleanor, The writing process: composition writing for university students, 2. ed., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 1992
- Falk, Angela, Thinking and writing in academic contexts: a university companion, 1. ed., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2011
- Mays, Kelly J., The Norton introduction to literature, Shorter 12. ed., New York, Norton, 2016
Component 3. English linguistics
- Fennell, Barbara A., A history of English: a sociolinguistic approach, Oxford, Blackwell, 2001Compulsory
- Johansson, Stig; Rönnerdal, Göran, English pronunciation: a handbook, 2., [rev.]ed., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 1993Compulsory
- Rönnerdal, Göran; Johansson, Stig, Introducing English pronunciation, Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2005Compulsory
- Yule, George, Pragmatics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996Compulsory
- Ellis, Rod, Second language acquisition., Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1997Compulsory
- Aarts, Bas; Weiner, Edmund S. C.; Chalker, Sylvia, The Oxford dictionary of English grammar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014Compulsory
Handouts.
Component 3. English linguistics
- Aitchison, Jean, Language change: progress or decay?, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001
- Baugh, Albert C.; Cable, Thomas, A history of the English language, 5th ed., London, Routledge, 2002
- Finegan, Edward, Language: its structure and use, Forth Worth, Hartcourt Brace College Publishers, 2004
Component 4. American literature and culture
- Crane, Stephen, The red badge of courage: an authoritative text backgrounds and sources criticism, 4th ed., New York, W.W. Norton & Co., c2008Compulsory
- Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism, New York, Norton, 1994Compulsory
- Faulkner, William, As I lay dying: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism, [New ed.], New York, W.W. Norton & Co., cop. 2010Compulsory
- McCullers, Carson, The heart is a lonely hunter, [New ed.], London, Penguin Books, 2008Compulsory
- Salinger, Jerome David, The catcher in the rye, Repr., Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1958, pr. 1978Compulsory
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death, [New ed.], London, Vintage, 1991Compulsory
- DeLillo, Don, White noise, London, Picador, 2011Compulsory
- Ward, Jesmyn, Sing, unburied, sing, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017Compulsory
Sylvia Plath. "Daddy" and "Ariel" available online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
A selection of critical material.
Component 5. English literature and culture
- Shakespeare, William, The tragedy of Macbeth, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008Compulsory
- Wordsworth, William; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Stafford, Fiona J., Lyrical ballads: 1798 and 1802Compulsory
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Lady Audley's secret, New ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012Compulsory
- Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland, Third edition., New York, W. W. Norton & Company, [2013]Compulsory
- Talbot, Bryan, Alice in Sunderland: an entertainment, Jonathan Cape, 2007Compulsory
Selection of Modernist short stories by Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Available online and from Studentportalen.
A selection of poetry. Available online and from Studentportalen.
A selection of critical material.
* Compulsory
Syllabus
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- Syllabus valid from Spring 2015
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2014
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2013
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2012
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2007