Pensum for British Literature and Culture 1600-1950

Emnekode:  2002
Emneansvarlig(e): Peter Fjågesund
Ca. antall studenter:  30
Pensum: Vår 2010/2011

Pensumlista er godkjent av emneansvarlig. Opplysningene er kvalitetssikret av biblioteket.

M.H. Abrams (ed.) The Norton anthology of English literature, vol. 2. 7th ed. or later, New York/London, W.W. Norton
Antall pensumsider:  150

The texts include Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness (58 pp.), Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Garden Party" (10 pp.), D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter" (11 pp.), Virginia Woolf's short story "The Legacy" (5 pp.) and the following poems: Robert Burns: "A Red, Red Rose", William Wordsworth: "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", John Keats: "Ode to a Nightingale", Alfred Tennyson: "Ulysses", Lewis Carroll: "Jabberwocky", Edward Lear: "Limerick", Wilfred Owen: "Anthem for Doomed Youth", William B. Yeats: "Easter 1916", and T.S. Eliot: "Journey of the Magi" (poems ca. 15 pp. altogether). Finally, non-fiction: Edmund Burke: from Reflections on the Revolution in France (5 pp.), Mary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (4 pp.), Thomas Paine: from Rights of Man (3 pp.), Charles Darwin: from The Origin of Species (6 pp.), Sir Edmund Gosse: From Father and Son" (3 pp.), Thomas Macaulay and Friedrich Engels: from "Industrialism: Progress or Decline?" (5 pp.), Sarah S. Ellis, Coventry Patmore, Harriet Martineau and Anonymous: from "The Woman Question" (9 pp.), and Chinua Achebe: from "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" (5 pp.)

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Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre. Any authoritative, edited edition with an introduction
Antall pensumsider:  470

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Shakespeare, William Hamlet. Any authoritative edition with an introduction (Arden Shakespeare, Penguin Shakespeare, Cambridge Shakepseare etc.)

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Fjågesund, Peter (2009) Compendium : British literature and culture 1600-1950., Bø
Antall pensumsider:  17

Contains the following poems: William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 18"; John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book I, ll. 1-83; Book XII, ll. 606-649); George Herbert: "Easter Wings"; Robert Herrick: "To the Virgins"; James Macpherson, Fingal (excerpts); Jonathan Swift, "A Description of the Morning".

Virginia Woolf''s short story "The Legacy" will be handed out at the beginning of term.

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Mustad, Jan Erik & Ulla Rahbek (eds.) (2006) A short introduction to the history of the United Kingdom., Bergen, Fagbokforlaget
ISBN 978-82-450-0385-7
Antall pensumsider:  150

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Stephen, Martin (1999) English literature : a student guide. 3rd ed., London, Longman
ISBN 978-0-582-41451-8
Antall pensumsider:  180

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