Syllabus:

Creating the Contemporary Canon: Prizes, Critics, Readers, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-08

Swedish name: Att skapa mästerverk. Litteraturpriser, kritiker och läsare

This syllabus is valid: 2011-01-17 and until further notice

Course code: 1EN055

Credit points: 7.5

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

Required Knowledge

90 higher education credits in English, or similar qualifications. In order to be eligible for the course, applicants must have completed an introductory and an advanced course in English literature at university level or have similar qualifications, alternatively 90 higher education credits in literary history.

Literature

Valid from: 2011 week 36

Half of a yellow sun
Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi
London : Harper Perennial : 2007 : 433, 16 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3
Mandatory
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The gathering
Enright Anne
1. pbk. ed. : New York : Black Cat : cop. 2007 : 260 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-8021-7039-2 (pbk.)
Mandatory
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Mister Pip
Jones Lloyd
London : Murray : 2008 : 219 s. :
ISBN: 0-7195-6994-X (pbk.) : £7.99
Mandatory
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The fifth child
Lessing Doris
New York : Vintage books : 1989 : 133 s. :
ISBN: 0-679-72182-7
Mandatory
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The road
McCarthy Cormac
1st Vintage International open-market ed. : New York : Vintage International : 2007, c2006. : 287 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-307-38645-8
Mandatory
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