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*
• 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*

In addition, selected texts online, in Studium and photocopied material.

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; Fordyce, Kenneth, Pragmatics: a resource book for students, Fourth edition., Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2021Compulsory*
• 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