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Syllabus:

Animal and plant horror narratives, 7.5 credits

Swedish name: Djur och växter i modern skräck
This syllabus is valid: 2024-05-06 and until further notice
Course code: 1EN095
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: First cycle
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Language Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2024-02-13

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Literature

Both books are available as e-books

Animal horror cinema : genre, history and criticism
Gregersdotter Katarina, Höglund Johan A., Hållén Nicklas
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan : 2015 : 248 pages :
ISBN: 9781137496386
LIBRIS ID: 18507706
Mandatory
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Plant Horror : Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
Keetley Dawn., Tenga Angela.
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : 2016 : XXIV, 278 p. 14 illus. in color. :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9781137570635
LIBRIS ID: 19983422
Mandatory
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Students choose two of the titles below. Mandatory

Smith Scott
The ruins : a novel
2006 :
ISBN: 9780552152709
LIBRIS ID: 11840523
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Whiteley Aliya
The Beauty
London : Titan Books : 2018 : 197 sidor :
ISBN: 9781785655746
LIBRIS ID: s2gvrx12qvcp7zxm
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Wyndham John
The Day Of The Triffids
Penguin Books Ltd : 2008 :

ISBN: 9780141033006
LIBRIS ID: s4d1xhqqq28kx366
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Kingfisher T.
What moves the dead
London : Titan Books : 2022 : 175 sidor :

LIBRIS ID: 3k6gwtk21nn6hglw
ISBN: 9781803360072
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Additional texts, comprising about 100 pages, are available electronically via Umeå University Library, or via the learning platform. Mandatory

Both books are available as e-books

Animal horror cinema : genre, history and criticism
Gregersdotter Katarina, Höglund Johan A., Hållén Nicklas
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan : 2015 : 248 pages :
ISBN: 9781137496386
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Plant Horror : Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
Keetley Dawn., Tenga Angela.
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : 2016 : XXIV, 278 p. 14 illus. in color. :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9781137570635
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Students choose two of the titles below. Mandatory

Smith Scott
The ruins : a novel
2006 :
ISBN: 9780552152709
Search the University Library catalogue

Walton David
The genius plague
Amherst, NY : Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books : 2017 : 384 pages :
ISBN: 9781633883437
Search the University Library catalogue

Whiteley Aliya
The Beauty
London : Titan Books : 2018 : 197 sidor :
ISBN: 9781785655746
Search the University Library catalogue

Wyndham John
The Day Of The Triffids
Penguin Books Ltd : 2008 :

ISBN: 9780141033006
Search the University Library catalogue

Additional texts, comprising about 100 pages, are available electronically via Umeå University Library, or via the learning platform. Mandatory