Module 1. Understanding Everyday and Literary Language

Main textbook

• Yule, George, Pragmatics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996Compulsory*

Texts from which excerpts will be distributed (many are also freely available online):

• Austin, J. L.; Urmson, J. O.; Sbisà, Marina., How to do things with words, 2nd ed., Oxford, Clarendon, 1975Compulsory*
• Cavanagh, Dermot, The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 2010Compulsory*
• MacDonald, Michael, The Oxford handbook of rhetorical studies, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2014-Compulsory*
• Tannen, Deborah; Hamilton, Heidi E.; Schiffrin, Deborah, The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition, Chichester, West Sussex, John Wiley & Sons, 2015Compulsory*
• Stockwell, Peter; Whiteley, Sara, The Cambridge handbook of stylistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014Compulsory*
• Vickers, Brian, In defence of rhetoric, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988Compulsory*
• Weiss, Shira Wolosky, Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem, Oxford University Press, 2001Compulsory*

Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel, A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing. https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/csu-fyw-rhetoric/

Literary texts distributed in class will include selected poems and short stories by Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, John Milton, Katherine Anne Porter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf, in addition to selections from The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Vol. 1, 1746-1920.

A compendium of other critical material, literary texts, and samples of everyday language will be distributed in class.

Module 2. Literature and the History of English

Main textbook

• McIntyre, Dan, History of English: A Resource Book for Students, 2020Compulsory*

Poetry, drama, and prose fiction

A selection of short lyrics and poems, available online, including Appalachian lyrics and poetry by for instance Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, and Mary Wroth.

A selection of works and extracts from the following. Detailed information about selected texts, links, and editions is made available to students before the start of the course:

• Mansfield Park, 2012
• Northanger Abbey, 2010
• Burns, Robert, Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect [Elektronisk resurs].: By Robert Burns., Edinburgh, printed for the author, and sold by William Creech, 1787
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury tales, Raleigh, N.C., Alex Catalogue, [199-?]
• More, Thomas, Utopia: or the happy republic; a philosophical romance, in two books ... by Sir Thomas More ... translated into English by Gilbert Burnet [Elektronisk resurs]..., Glasgow, printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1762
• Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1932 (Available as e-book at the University library.)
• Benson, Larry Dean, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation (Medieval European Studies), West Virginia University Press, 2012
• Shakespeare, William, King Henry V (E-book or Internet resource.)
• Shakespeare, William, The Tempest (E-book or Internet resource.)
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Hunter, J. Paul, Frankenstein: the 1818 text, contexts, criticism, 2nd ed., New York, W.W. Norton & Co., c2012 (Other edition may be used.)
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly (Life Among the Lowly), Harvard University Press, 2009
• Wordsworth, William et al., Wordsworth and Coleridge: lyrical ballads, London, Routledge, 2005

Davidson, Clifford (ed.). 2011. The York Corpus Christi Plays. Kalamazoo: Medieval

Institute Publications. (freely available online)

Sponsler, Claire (ed.). 2010. John Lydgate: Mummings and Entertainments. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications. (freely available online)

Additional texts and seminar material:

A selection of extracts from contemporaneous texts and sources (available digitally or through handouts), including for instance slave narratives, accounts of exploration and settlement, debates around the public theatre and the form of the novel, dictionaries, and writings on language and grammar.

A selection of material on theory and academic writing (available digitally or through handouts).

Module 3. English Linguistics and Language Structure

• Nelson, Gerald; Greenbaum, Sidney, An introduction to English grammar, Fourth edition., London, Routledge, 2016Compulsory*
• Estling Vannestål, Maria, A university grammar of English: with a Swedish perspective, Second edition, Lund, Studentlitteratur, [2015]Compulsory*
• Key questions in second language acquisition: an introduction, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020Compulsory*

Photocopied material

Module 4. Remapping American and British Literature

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Scribner trade paperback edition., New York, Scribner, 2004Compulsory*
• Jacobs, Harriet A.; Painter, Nell Irvin., Incidents in the life of a slave girl, New York, Penguin Books, 2000Compulsory*
• Collins, Wilkie, Moonstone, Penguin Books Ltd, 1998Compulsory*
• Whitman, Walt, Leaves of grass: the original 1855 edition, New York, Dover Publications, 2007Compulsory*
• Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway, [New ed.], Oxford, OUP Oxford, 2000Compulsory*
• Baum, L. Frank; Denslow, W. W., The wonderful Wizard of Oz, Orinda, CA, Sea Wolf Press, 2019Compulsory*
• Larsen, Nella; Davis, Thadious M., Quicksand, New York, Penguin Books, 2002, ©1928Compulsory*
• Ford, Ford Madox, The good soldier: a tale of passion, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1990Compulsory*

* Compulsory