Dickinson, L. T. (1959). A guide to literary study. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (Copy for sale in the student book shop)
Klarer, M. (1999). An introduction to literary studies. London: Routledge.
Skårdal, D. B. (1992). Rules for writing English: A practical handbook for students and teachers of English in Norway. [Oslo]: forfatteren.
Novels
Brontë, C. (2001). Jane Eyre: An authoritative text. New York: Norton.
Laurence, M. (1993). The Stone angel. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press.
Morrison, T. (2001). Jazz. London: Vintage.
Twain, M. (1994). The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Penguin.
Plays
Shakespeare, W., & Spencer, T. J. B. (1980). Hamlet. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Williams, T. (1999). The glass menagerie. New York: New Directions.
Short stories from
Baym, N. (2003). The Norton anthology of American literature (6 utg.). New York: Norton.
Greenblatt, S., & Abrams, M. H. (2000). The Norton anthology of English literature (6 utg. Vol. 2). New York: Norton.
Compendium prepared by your lecturer, to be bought at the student book
McCabe, Brian “Feathered Choristers” (C)
Gordimer, Nadine “The Moment before the Gun went off” (N)
Ishiguro, Kazuo “A Family Supper” (C)
Faulkner, William “A Rose for Emily” (N)
Olsen, Tillie “I Stand Here Ironing” (C)
O’Connor, Flannery “Good Country People” (N)
Poems from
Baym, N. (2003). The Norton anthology of American literature (6 utg.). New York: Norton.Greenblatt, S., & Abrams, M. H. (2000). The Norton anthology of English literature (6 utg. Vol. 2). New York: Norton.
Compendium.
Shakespeare, William Sonnet No. 116, “Let Me Not” (C)
Sonnet No. 130, “My mistress’eyes” (C)
Donne, John “The Good Morrow” (C)
Blake, William ”London” (N)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe ”A Song: “Men of England”” (N) (on CD)
Hardy, Thomas “The Ruined Maid” (N)
Rossetti, Christina “Dead before Death” (N)
Yeats, W.B. “Down by the Salley Gardens” (N) (on CD)
Brooke, Rupert “The Soldier” (N)
Sassoon, Siegfried “The General” (N)
Owen, Wilfred “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (N)
Hill, Geoffrey ”September Song” (N)
Heaney, Seamus “Casualty” (N)
Bradstreet, Anne “Before the Birth of One of her Children”, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (N)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo “Hamatreya” (C)
Dickinson, Emily No. 258 “There’s a certain Slant of light”, No 510 “It was not Death, for I stood up” (N)
Frost, Robert “Mending Wall”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (N)
Hughes, Langston “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, “Mother to Son”, “I, Too” (N)
Bishop, Elisabeth “In the Waiting Room” (N)
Sexton, Anne “Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward” (C)
Essays (optional, recommended reading)
Orwell, George “Politics and the English Language” (N)
Woolf, Virginia from A Room of One’s Own, chapter 3 + conclusion of the final chapter (N)
There may be small changes made in the syllabus at a later stage.
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