Delkurs 1. Examensarbete, 15 poäng

Amerikansk och engelsk litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning. Baslitteratur

Valda delar av följande böcker studeras som bakgrund:

• James, Henry, The turn of the screw: complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives, 2, BostonObligatorisk*
• Stevenson, Robert Louis; NetLibrary, Inc., Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.., Raleigh, N.C., Alex Catalogue ; Boulder, Colo., [199-?]Obligatorisk*

Amerikansk och engelsk litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning. Referens- och fördjupningsläromedel

• Culler, Jonathan, Literary theory: a very short introduction., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, c1997Obligatorisk*

Eget material inom valt ämnesområde.

Språkvetenskaplig inriktning. Basläromedel

• Lagerholm, Per, Språkvetenskapliga uppsatser, 2. uppl., Studentlitteratur AB, 2010Obligatorisk*

Kompendium med språkvetenskapliga artiklar om metod och teori med särskild inriktning mot kontrastiva översättningsstudier samt studier om språk och kön. Därtill tillkommer eget material valt inom aktuellt ämnesområde.

Delkurs 2. Amerikanska porträtt: självbiografi då och nu, 7,5 hp

Baslitteratur

8-10 av nedanstående texter väljs av undervisande lärare. De texter som skall läsas är markerade "Obligatorisk"

• Angelou, Maya, I know why the caged bird sings, 32. pr., New York, Bantam, 1971, pr. 1988
• Antin, Mary, The promised land, London, Heinemann, 1912
• Baldwin, James, Notes of a native son., [New ed.], reiss., London, Corgi, 1969Obligatorisk*
• Bechdel, Alison, Fun home: a family tragicomic, 1st Mariner Books ed., Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2007
• Burroughs, Stephen, Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs.: [Two lines of verse] Copy right secured., [Hanover], Printed at Hanover, Newhampshire by Benjamin True, MDCCXCVIII. [1798] (Utdrag)
• Cather, Willa, A lost lady, [New ed.], London, Virago, 1980
• Cisneros, Sandra, The house on Mango Street., New York, Vintage, 1991
• Danticat, Edwidge, Brother, I'm dying, 1st Vantage books ed., New York, Vantage Books, 2008
• Didion, Joan, The year of magical thinking, London, Fourth Estate, 2005
• Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1986
• Eggers, Dave, What is the what: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2007
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Dikter i urval
• Franklin, Benjamin, The private life of the late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. ...: Originally written by himself, and now translated from the French. To which are added, some account of his public life, a variety of anecdotes ... by M. M. Brissot, Condorcet, Rochefoucault, Le Roy, &c.&c. and the eulogium of M. Fauchet, ..., London, printed for J. Parsons, 1793
• Ginsberg, Allen, Howl, and other poems, [S.l.] : Martino Fine Books, 2014.
• Gaines, Ernest J., The autobiography of miss Jane Pittman, New York, Bantam, 1981
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The scarlet letter., Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1994
• Hemingway, Ernest, In our time, New York, Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1996Obligatorisk*
• Hoffman, Eva, Lost in translation: a life in a new language, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., Penguin Books, 1990
• Johnson, James Weldon, The autobiography of an ex-colored man, London, X Press, 1995
• Kincaid, Jamaica, Lucy., 1. ed., New York, Farrar, 1990
• Kingston, Maxine Hong, The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts., London, Lane, 1977
• Lee, Chang-rae, Native speaker, London, Granta, 1998, c1995
• Mailer, Norman, The armies of the night, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, 1968, pr. 1971
• Mailer, Norman, Advertisements for myself, New York, Putnam, 1959
• Nelson, Maggie, The argonauts, Minneapolis, MN, Graywolf Press, 2015Obligatorisk*
• Plath, Sylvia, The bell jar, London, Faber and Faber, 2005Obligatorisk*
• Rich, Adrienne, Dikter i urval
• Roth, Henry, Call it sleep., New York, Avon, 1964
• Roth, Philip., The human stain, London, Vintage, 2001, c2000Obligatorisk*
• Rowlandson, Mary White, The narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
• Said, Edward W., Out of place: a memoir, [New ed.], London, Granta, 2000
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, Storyteller, New York, Seaver Books, cop. 1981
• Solnit, Rebecca, Savage dreams: a journey into the hidden wars of the American West, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, cop. 1994Obligatorisk*
• Stein, Gertrude, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990
• Thompson, Hunter S., Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream, 2nd Vintage Books ed, New York, Vintage Books, 1998Obligatorisk*
• Thoreau, Henry David; Cramer, Jeffrey S., Waldenb a fully annotated edition, New Haven, Yale University Press, c2004Obligatorisk*
• Twain, Mark; Frank, Elizabeth, Roughing it, New York, N.Y., Signet Classics, [2008]
• Wolff, Tobias, This boy's life, London, Picador, 1990

Whitman, Walt. Dikter i urval. Obligatorisk

I anslutning till texterna läses ett urval litteraturkritik.

Delkurs 3. Engelsk litteratur: tradition och förnyelse, 7,5 hp

Baslitteratur

8-10 av nedanstående texter väljs av undervisande lärare.

• Achebe, Chinua, Things fall apart, [New ed.], London, Penguin in association with Heinemann African Writers Series, 2001
• Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey: authoritative texts, backgrounds, criticism, New York, W. W. Norton, c2004
• Empire writing: an anthology of colonial literature 1870-1918, Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998
• Carter, Angela, Wise children, [New ed.], London, Vintage, 1992
• Collins, Wilkie, The woman in white, London, Penguin, 1999
• Conrad, Joseph, Heart of darkness: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism, 4. ed., New York ;a London, W.W. Norton, 2006
• Dickens, Charles; Bradbury, Nicola., Bleak House, London, Penguin, 2003
• Dixon, Ella Hepworth.; Farmer, Steve, The story of a modern woman
• Gray, Alasdair., Poor things: episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer, [Paperback ed.], London, Bloomsbury, c1992, 2002
• Shakespeare, William; Hibbard, G. R., Hamlet
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Hindle, Maurice, Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus, Rev. ed., London, Penguin, 2003
• Waters, Sarah, Fingersmith, New York, Virago, 2003

I anslutning till texterna läses ett urval litteraturkritik.

Delkurs 4. Språkgemenskaper, talare, texter, 7.5 hp

Baslitteratur

• Meyerhoff, Miriam., Introducing sociolinguistics, 2nd ed., Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2011Obligatorisk*
• Cutting, Joan., Pragmatics: a resource book for students, Third edition., Routledge, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 2015Obligatorisk*
• The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012
• Thomas, Jenny, Meaning in interaction: an introduction to pragmatics, London, Longman, 1995

Delk. 5. Att undersöka forn- och nuengelskans struktur, 7,5 hp

Baslitteratur

• Aarts, Bas, English syntax and argumentation, 4th edition., Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Obligatorisk*
• Hogg, Richard M.; Alcorn, Rhona., An introduction to Old English, 2nd ed., Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, c2012Obligatorisk*

* Obligatorisk