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Literary Theory and Methods, 15 credits

Swedish name: Litteraturvetenskaplig teori och metod
This syllabus is valid: 2013-09-02 valid to 2014-07-20 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Course code: 1EN061
Credit points: 15
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: English: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Language Studies

Contents

(This course provides a survey of central theories and methodological approaches in English literature, with emphasis on developments within the last century. Course study will include an examination of how various theoretical perspectives affect literary interpretation as well as the relationship between method and results. This course is recommended for students who will later write an advanced level essay in English literature.)

Literature

Valid from: 2013 week 35

Eliot T. S.
The waste land and other poems
New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co. : [c1934. : 88 p. :
Mandatory

Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn
Cousin Phillis
London : Penguin books : 1995 : 157 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-062194-6
Mandatory
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Leitch Vincent B.
The Norton anthology of theory and criticism
2. ed. : New York : W. W. Norton & Co. : 2010 : 2758 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-393-93292-8 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Waugh Patricia
Literary theory and criticism : an Oxford guide
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2006 : 598 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-925836-8 (hft.)
Mandatory
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