English B1
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN121
Module 1. Understanding Everyday and Literary Language
Main textbook
- Yule, George, Pragmatics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996Compulsory
- Toomer, Jean, Cane, Ww Norton & Co, 2011Compulsory
Handouts and online material.
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:
- Austen, Jane; Davie, John; Kinsley, James, Northanger Abbey: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon, New ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008
- Benson, Larry Dean, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation (Medieval European Studies), West Virginia University Press, 2012 (Available online through the university library.)
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canterbury tales (https:/
/ chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/ pages/ text-and-translations) - Shakespeare, William; Gurr, Andrew., King Henry V, Updated ed., Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Shakespeare, William, The Tempest
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus: the 1818 text, Third edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019
- Wordsworth, William et al., Wordsworth and Coleridge: lyrical ballads, London, Routledge, 2005 (Available online through the university library.)
Davidson, Clifford (ed.). The York Corpus Christi Plays. Medieval Institute. (online)
Sponsler, Claire (ed.). John Lydgate: Mummings and Entertainments. Medieval Institute. (online).
Scott, Sir Walter. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. I-III. 1806. Project Gutenberg. URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12742; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12882; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45778
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
- Whitman, Walt, Leaves of grass: the original 1855 edition, New York, Dover Publications, 2007Compulsory
- Collins, Wilkie, Moonstone, Penguin Books Ltd, 1998Compulsory
- Jacobs, Harriet A.; Painter, Nell Irvin., Incidents in the life of a slave girl, New York, Penguin Books, 2000Compulsory
- Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway, [New ed.], Oxford, OUP Oxford, 2000Compulsory
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Scribner trade paperback edition., New York, Scribner, 2004Compulsory
- Baum, L. Frank; Denslow, W. W., The wonderful Wizard of Oz, Orinda, CA, Sea Wolf Press, 2019Compulsory
- Waugh, Evelyn, Handful of Dust, Penguin Books, 2014Compulsory (The book will not be read spring term 2023.)
- Larsen, Nella; Davis, Thadious M., Quicksand, New York, Penguin Books, 2002, ©1928Compulsory
Kipling, Rudyard, selection. Selection of short stories available online.
* Compulsory
Syllabus
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2021
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2021
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2016
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2015
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2015
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2014
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2013
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2012
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2007