Engelska A, 30 högskolepoäng

Literature and Culture I

• Achebe, Chinua. 2003- Home and Exile. Edinburgh: Canongate Books,  (Handout, selection, ca 17 pages) 
• Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions.2004. Banbury: Ayebia Clarke Publishing. (212 pages)  
• Ghosh, Amitav. The Hungry Tide. 2005. New York: HarperCollins. (416 pages) 
• Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. 2018. London: Faber and Faber. (304 pages) 
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Minute on Indian Education [1835] Handout. ( 3 pages) 
• Ngugi wa Thiong’o. “Imperialism of Language.” Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms. 1993. London: James Curry. Handout. (12 pages) 
• Orwell, George. “England Your England” [1941] . Handout. (13 pages)  
• Phillips, Caryl. “A Dream Deferred: Fifty Years of Caribbean Migration to Britain”, Kunapipi 21 (2), 1999. Handout. (12 pages) 
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 2012. New York: Norton Critical Edition. (ca. 200 pages).  
• This is England. 2006. Meadows.  

 

Supplementary reading material, ca. 50 pp. Additional audiovisual material (songs, films etc) may be assigned.  

 

Compulsory Writing Resource: 

Online Writing Lab at Purdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/ 

 

 

Language and Linguistics I

• Yule, George. 2020. The Study of Language. 7th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Enstaka kapitel. (420 pages, 180 pages used in this course). 
• Bieswanger, Markus & Annette Becker. 2017. Introduction to English Linguistics. 4th ed. Stuttgart: UTB GmbH. Selected chapters/Enstaka kapitel (229 pages, 60 used in the course). 
• Beers Fägersten, Kristy. 2016. Watching TV with a Linguist. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Selected chapters/Enstaka kapitel (389 pages, 120 used in the course). 

Additional material may be assigned by the teacher, ca. 40 pages. 

 

Language and Linguistics II

• Yule, George. 2020. The Study of Language. 7th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Selected chapters/Enstaka kapitel (420 pages, 140 pages used in the course). 
• Fenn, Peter & Götz Schwab. 2018. Introducing English Syntax. A Basic Guide for Students of English. 1st ed. London: Routledge. Enstaka kapitel. (274 pages, 120 used in the course). 
• Bieswanger, Markus & Annette Becker. 2017. Introduction to English Linguistics. 4th ed. Stuttgart: UTB GmbH. Selected chapters/Enstaka kapitel (229 pages, 60 used in the course). 
• Beers Fägersten, Kristy. 2016. Watching TV with a Linguist. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Selected chapters/Enstaka kapitel (389 pages, 90 used in the course). 

 

Additional material can be handed out by the teacher, ca. 40 pages 

 

Literature and culture II

• Alexie, Sherman. “Cry, Cry, Cry” Blasphemy, Grove P (2013). 15 pp. Available online. 
• Anzáldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Borderlands/La Frontera. Aunt Lute Books (1987). 10 pp. 
• Butler, Octavia. Kindred. Headline Book Publishing, 2018. 320 pp. 
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. Spiegel and Grau, 2017. 152 pp. 
• Hamilton, Sharon. Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises, Second edition. Norton, 2016. 352 pp. 
• Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. 82 pp. 
• Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl.” Available online. 1 pg. 
• Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Selected chapters, ca 50 pp. 
• Machado, Carmen Maria. “The Husband Stitch.” Granta 2014. Available on-line, ca 30 pp. 
• Ortiz, Simon J. “Toward a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism.” MELUS, Vol. 8, No. 2, Ethnic Literature and Cultural Nationalism (1981), pp. 7-12. Available online. 
• Rowlandson, Mary. Narrative of the Captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Project Gutenberg, 1997. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/851 30 pp. 
• Solnit, Rebecca. Men Explain Things to Me. Guernica (2012), ca 19 pp. Available online. 
• Speigelman, Art. Maus I. 160 pp. 
• Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. Penguin Classics, 2009. 128 pp 
• Zitkala-Sâ. “Impressions of an Indian Childhood” and “The School Days of an Indian Girl. American Indian Stories (1921). 20 s. Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10376/pg10376.html 

 

Compulsory Writing Resource: 

Online Writing Lab at Purdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/  

 

Additional material may be assigned by the teacher, ca. 50 pages