English C1
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN132
A revised version of the reading list is available.
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
- Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself: authoritative text contexts criticism, Second edition., New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2017Compulsory
- Whitman, Walt, Leaves of grass and other writings: authoritative texts, other poetry and prose, criticism, New York, Norton, 2001Compulsory
- Antin, Mary; Sollors, Werner, The promised land, London, Penguin, 1997Compulsory
- Stein, Gertrude, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990Compulsory
- Wright, Richard 1908-1960, Black boy (American hunger): a record of childhood and youth, 1st HarperPerennial ed., HarperPerennialCompulsory
- Kingston, Maxine Hong, The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, Vintage international ed., New York, Vintage international, 1989Compulsory
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the world and me, Melbourne, Victoria, Text Publishing Company, 2015Compulsory
Selected texts online or Student Portal.
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
- Conrad, Joseph, Heart of darkness: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism, 4. ed., New York ;a London, W.W. Norton, 2006Compulsory
- Dickens, Charles; Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, Great expectations, New ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008Compulsory
- Jones, Lloyd, Mister Pip, London, Murray, 2008Compulsory
- Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad; Wright, Jonathan, Frankenstein in Baghdad, London, Oneworld, 2018Compulsory
- Shakespeare, William; Hibbard, G. R., HamletCompulsory
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Hindle, Maurice, Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus, Rev. ed., London, Penguin, 2003Compulsory
Selected literary criticism.
Component. 4. Communities, Speakers, Texts, 7.5 credits
Main Reading
- Meyerhoff, Miriam, Introducing sociolinguistics, Third edition., 2019Compulsory
- 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