5EN121 · 30 hp · Grundnivå

Engelska B1

Reading list valid from autumn 2026

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Notes from the course
  • Delkurs 1. Analys av engelskt språkbruk i litteratur och vardag › Basläromedel: Kopierat material och onlinematerial.
  • Delkurs 1. Analys av engelskt språkbruk i litteratur och vardag › Texter där utdrag läses (finns som stencil/fil eller på webben): Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel, A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing. https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/csu-fyw-rhetoric/
  • Delkurs 1. Analys av engelskt språkbruk i litteratur och vardag › Texter där utdrag läses (finns som stencil/fil eller på webben): 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.
  • Delkurs 1. Analys av engelskt språkbruk i litteratur och vardag › Texter där utdrag läses (finns som stencil/fil eller på webben): A compendium of other critical material, literary texts, and samples of everyday language will be distributed in class.
  • Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Poesi, drama och prosa: A selection of short lyrics and poems (available online or through handouts), and 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:
  • Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Poesi, drama och prosa: Davidson, Clifford (ed.). The York Corpus Christi Plays. Medieval Institute. (online)
  • Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Poesi, drama och prosa: Sponsler, Claire (ed.). John Lydgate: Mummings and Entertainments. Medieval Institute. (online).
  • Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Poesi, drama och prosa: 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
  • Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Poesi, drama och prosa: Additional texts and seminar material:
  • Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Poesi, drama och prosa: 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.
  • Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Poesi, drama och prosa: A selection of material on theory and academic writing (available digitally or through handouts).
  • Delkurs 3. Engelsk språkvetenskap och språkstruktur: Fotokopierat material
  • Delkurs 4. Nya perspektiv på engelsk och amerikansk litteratur: Ett urval poesi och/eller noveller tillgängliga online.

Required reading

Delkurs 1. Analys av engelskt språkbruk i litteratur och vardag › Basläromedel

Delkurs 1. Analys av engelskt språkbruk i litteratur och vardag › Texter där utdrag läses (finns som stencil/fil eller på webben)

  • How to do things with words

    Verified edition

    Austin, J. L.; Urmson, J. O.; Sbisà, Marina. · 2nd ed. · Clarendon · 1975

    ISBN 9780191680861 · e-book

    As written on the list

    Austin, J. L.; Urmson, J. O.; Sbisà, Marina., How to do things with words, 2nd ed., Oxford, Clarendon, 1975

  • The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature

    Likely edition

    Cavanagh, Dermot · Edinburgh University Press · 2010

    ISBN 9780748640256 · print

    As written on the list

    Cavanagh, Dermot, The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 2010

  • The Oxford handbook of rhetorical studies

    Verified edition

    MacDonald, Michael · 2014

    ISBN 9780199984626 · e-book

    As written on the list

    MacDonald, Michael, The Oxford handbook of rhetorical studies, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2014-

  • The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition

    Verified edition

    Tannen, Deborah; Hamilton, Heidi E.; Schiffrin, Deborah · John Wiley & Sons · 2015

    ISBN 9780470670743 · print

    As written on the list

    Tannen, Deborah; Hamilton, Heidi E.; Schiffrin, Deborah, The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition, Chichester, West Sussex, John Wiley & Sons, 2015

  • The Cambridge handbook of stylistics

    Verified edition

    Stockwell, Peter; Whiteley, Sara · Cambridge University Press · 2014

    ISBN 9781107028876 · print

    As written on the list

    Stockwell, Peter; Whiteley, Sara, The Cambridge handbook of stylistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014

  • In defence of rhetoric

    Verified edition

    Vickers, Brian · Clarendon Press · 1988

    ISBN 9780198128373 · print

    As written on the list

    Vickers, Brian, In defence of rhetoric, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988

  • Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

    Not matched

    Weiss, Shira Wolosky · Oxford University Press · 2001

    No store links – the book has no reliable ISBN.

    As written on the list

    Weiss, Shira Wolosky, Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem, Oxford University Press, 2001

Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Basläromedel

Delkurs 3. Engelsk språkvetenskap och språkstruktur

  • Longman student grammar of spoken and written English

    Verified edition

    Biber, Douglas; Leech, Geoffrey N.; Conrad, Susan · Longman · 2002

    ISBN 9780582237278 · print

    As written on the list

    Biber, Douglas; Leech, Geoffrey N.; Conrad, Susan, Longman student grammar of spoken and written English, Harlow, Longman, 2002

  • A university grammar of English: with a Swedish perspective

    Verified edition

    Estling Vannestål, Maria · Second edition · Studentlitteratur · 2015

    ISBN 9789144104997 · print

    As written on the list

    Estling Vannestål, Maria, A university grammar of English: with a Swedish perspective, Second edition, Lund, Studentlitteratur, [2015]

  • Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction

    Likely edition

    VanPatten · Second edition · Cambridge University Press · 2025

    ISBN 9781009306010 · print

    As written on the list

    VanPatten, Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction, 2, Cambridge University Press, 2025

Delkurs 4. Nya perspektiv på engelsk och amerikansk litteratur

  • Leaves of grass: the original 1855 edition

    Verified edition

    Whitman, Walt · Dover Publications · 2007

    ISBN 9780486456768 · print

    As written on the list

    Whitman, Walt, Leaves of grass: the original 1855 edition, New York, Dover Publications, 2007

  • Moonstone

    Verified edition

    Collins, Wilkie · Penguin Books Ltd · 1998

    ISBN 9780140434088 · e-book

    As written on the list

    Collins, Wilkie, Moonstone, Penguin Books Ltd, 1998

  • Incidents in the life of a slave girl

    Verified edition

    Jacobs, Harriet A.; Painter, Nell Irvin. · Penguin Books · 2000

    ISBN 9780140437959 · print

    As written on the list

    Jacobs, Harriet A.; Painter, Nell Irvin., Incidents in the life of a slave girl, New York, Penguin Books, 2000

  • Mrs Dalloway

    Verified edition

    Woolf, Virginia; Bradshaw, David · [New ed.] · OUP Oxford · 2000

    ISBN 9780199536009 · print

    As written on the list

    Woolf, Virginia; Bradshaw, David, Mrs Dalloway, [New ed.], Oxford, OUP Oxford, 2000

  • The great Gatsby

    Verified edition

    Fitzgerald, F. Scott · Scribner trade paperback edition. · Scribner · 2004

    ISBN 9780743273565 · print

    As written on the list

    Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Scribner trade paperback edition., New York, Scribner, 2004

  • Yellow wall-paper, herland, and selected writings

    Verified edition

    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins · Penguin Classics · 2009

    ISBN 9780143105855 · print

    Herland

    As written on the list

    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, Yellow wall-paper, herland, and selected writings, Penguin Classics, 2009 (Herland)

  • Dubliners: authoritative text, contexts, criticism

    Verified edition

    Joyce, James; Norris, Margot. · 1st ed. · 2006

    ISBN 9780393978513 · print

    As written on the list

    Joyce, James; Norris, Margot., Dubliners: authoritative text, contexts, criticism, 1st ed., New York, W.W. Norton, c2006

Other reading (not marked as required)

Delkurs 2. Litteratur och engelskans historia › Poesi, drama och prosa

  • Northanger Abbey: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon

    Verified edition

    Austen, Jane; Davie, John; Kinsley, James · This edition published 2003 · Oxford University Press · 2008

    ISBN 9780199535545 · print

    As written on the list

    Austen, Jane; Davie, John; Kinsley, James, Northanger Abbey: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon, New ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation (Medieval European Studies)

    Uncertain edition

    Benson, Larry Dean · West Virginia University Press · 2012

    Finns som e-bok via UUB.

    No store links – the book has no reliable ISBN.

    As written on the list

    Benson, Larry Dean, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Close Verse Translation (Medieval European Studies), West Virginia University Press, 2012 (Finns som e-bok via UUB.)

  • Canterbury tales

    Not matched

    Chaucer, Geoffrey

    https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/text-and-translations

    As written on the list

    Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canterbury tales (https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/text-and-translations)

  • King Henry V

    Verified edition

    Shakespeare, William; Gurr, Andrew. · Updated ed. · Cambridge University Press · 2005

    ISBN 9780521847926 · print

    As written on the list

    Shakespeare, William; Gurr, Andrew., King Henry V, Updated ed., Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2005

  • A midsummer night's dream

    Verified edition

    Shakespeare, William; Chaudhuri, Sukanta · Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare · 2017

    ISBN 9781408133491 · print

    As written on the list

    Shakespeare, William; Chaudhuri, Sukanta, A midsummer night's dream, London, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017

  • Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus: the 1818 text

    Verified edition

    Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Groom, Nick · Third edition · Oxford University Press · 2019

    ISBN 9780198840824 · print

    As written on the list

    Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Groom, Nick, Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus: the 1818 text, Third edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019

  • Wordsworth and Coleridge: lyrical ballads

    Verified edition

    Wordsworth, William m.fl. · Routledge · 2005

    ISBN 9780415355292 · print

    Finns som e-bok via UUB.

    As written on the list

    Wordsworth, William m.fl., Wordsworth and Coleridge: lyrical ballads, London, Routledge, 2005 (Finns som e-bok via UUB.)

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