Historical Narration
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA742
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Compulsary reading
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, The danger of a single story, TED talk, The danger of a single story Links to an external site.Compulsory
- Chadwick, Elizabeth, Beyond the dressing up box, blog post, Beyond the dressing up boxCompulsory (< 10pp)
- Eco, Umberto, Postscript to The name of the rose, 1. ed., San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, cop. 1984Compulsory
- Kemp, Douglas, Truth: Historical Fiction: Does It Matter that We Get the Facts Right, blog post, Truth: Historical Fiction: Does It Matter that We Get the Facts RightCompulsory (< 10pp)
- Pollard, Eileen, Between the Real and the Imagined': Hilary Mantel's Craft, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019, 2019, Between the Real and the Imagined': Hilary Mantel's CraftCompulsory (<10 pp)
Historical novels (students choose at least two of them)
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Half of a yellow sun, New York, Anchor Books, 2007
- Eco, Umberto, The name of the rose, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
- Larsmo, Ola; Nunnally, Tiina, Swede Hollow: a novel, First University of Minnesota Press edition., Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
- Mantel, Hilary; Högström, Jesper, Wolf Hall, Första pocketutgåvan, Stockholm, Weyler, 2020
Plus some additional short texts and sources (maximum 100 pp).
Students can choose to read the texts in other translations.
In total, 830-1313 pp, depending on the choice of novels.
* Compulsory