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*
• Bulosan, Carlos, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The scarlet letterCompulsory* (Any edition.)
• Lee, Chang-rae., Native speakerCompulsory* (Any edition.)
• Robinson, Marilynne, Housekeeping, Picador USA, 2004Compulsory*
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony, Penguin USA, 2011Compulsory*
• Twain, Mark; Nafisi, Azar; Rasmussen, R. Kent, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York, Penguin Books, 2014Compulsory*
• Wright, Richard 1908-1960, Black boy (American hunger): a record of childhood and youth, 1st HarperPerennial ed., HarperPerennialCompulsory*

Handouts plus online 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; Smith, Margaret, Jane Eyre, London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1973Compulsory*
• Carter, Angela, Wise children, [New ed.], London, Vintage, 1992Compulsory*
• Conrad, Joseph; Armstrong, Paul B., 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*
• 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