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Syllabus:

Literary Theory and Methods, 15 credits

Swedish name: Litteraturvetenskaplig teori och metod
This syllabus is valid: 2022-08-08 valid to 2024-08-04 (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
Revised by: Head of Department of Language Studies, 2022-03-07

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

North
Heaney Seamus
London : Faber and Faber : 1992 : 67 s. :
ISBN: 0-571-10813-X
Mandatory
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The Norton anthology of theory and criticism
Leitch Vincent B.
2. ed. : New York : W. W. Norton & Co. : 2010 : 2758 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-393-93292-8 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Literary theory and criticism : an Oxford guide
Waugh Patricia
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2006 : 598 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-925836-8 (hft.)
Mandatory
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The Tempest
Shakespeare William, Vaughan Virginia Mason, Vaughan Alden T.
Bloomsbury Pub : 2011 :
Mandatory

My Ántonia
Cather Willa
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press : [2013] :
ISBN: 9780803245709
Mandatory
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Reading instructions: Any edition

Cousin Phillis
Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn
London : Penguin books : 1995 : 157 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-062194-6
Mandatory
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North
Heaney Seamus
London : Faber and Faber : 1992 : 67 s. :
ISBN: 0-571-10813-X
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

The Norton anthology of theory and criticism
Leitch Vincent B.
2. ed. : New York : W. W. Norton & Co. : 2010 : 2758 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-393-93292-8 (inb.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Literary theory and criticism : an Oxford guide
Waugh Patricia
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2006 : 598 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-925836-8 (hft.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

The Tempest
Shakespeare William, Vaughan Virginia Mason, Vaughan Alden T.
Bloomsbury Pub : 2011 :
Mandatory