English C1
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN132
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
- Bechdel, Alison, Fun home: a family tragicomic, 1st Mariner Books ed., Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2007Compulsory
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the world and me, Melbourne, Victoria, Text Publishing Company, 2015Compulsory
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants, First paperback edition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Milkweed Editions, 2013Compulsory
- Robinson, Marilynne, Housekeeping, Picador USA, 2004Compulsory
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, Storyteller, New York, Arcade by arrangement with Seaver Books, cop. 1981Compulsory
- Twain, Mark; Nafisi, Azar; Rasmussen, R. Kent, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York, Penguin Books, 2014Compulsory
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
- Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre, London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1973Compulsory
- 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
- Rhys, Jean; Smith, Angela, Wide Sargasso Sea, London, Penguin, 2000Compulsory
- 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, Sixth edition, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024Compulsory
- Hogg, Richard M.; Alcorn, Rhona., An introduction to Old English, 2nd ed., Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, c2012Compulsory (Also available as paperback edition.)
* Compulsory