Curriculum for ENG 124 British Literature and Culture Spring 2006
PENSUM for ENG124 – British Literature and Culture (15 studiepoeng)
Spring 2007
Please note
Texts marked with * should be purchased separately in the editions recommended.
The other texts (poems, short fiction and other prose) are included in a Compendium marked ENG123/124, which will be available in Studia at the beginning of term.
As part of your preparation for the course you are expected to make use of the inter-active TRUST programme, which contains texts, notes and suggestions about how to read and discuss poetry.
To use the programme ( you will need to collect a password and username from the English Department Office.
The following poems are included in the TRUST web-pages: ”Tintern Abbey,” ”Kubla Khan,” ”England in 1819,” ”Ode to the West Wind,” La Belle Dame sans Merci,” ”The Second Coming,” ”Anthem for Doomed Youth,” Musée des Beaux Arts.”
Shakespeare
Macbeth. Ed. Nicholas Brooke. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.* Or
Macbeth. Ed. A.R. Braunmuller. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.*
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Poetry:
John Donne, ”A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
Henry Vaughan, ”The Night”
Andrew Marvell, ”To His Coy Mistress”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Lover: a ballad”
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Prose:
Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Nineteenth Century
Poetry:
William Wordsworth, ”Tintern Abbey”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ”Kubla Khan”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ”England in 1819”
Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Tears, Idle Tears”
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Elizabeth Browning, ”If thou must love me”
Matthew Arnold, ”Dover Beach”
Prose:
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Thomas Carlyle, “Signs of the Times”
Charles Dickens, Hard Times. Ed. Kate Flint. Penguin.*
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer. Ed. Daniel R. Schwarz. Bedford.*
Drama:
G. B. Shaw, Major Barbara. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. Introduction by Margery Morgan.
Penguin Classics.
Twentieth Century
Poetry:
Thomas Hardy, ”The Darkling Thrush”
Wilfred Owen, ”Dulce et decorum est”
Siegfried Sassoon, ”Counter-Attack”
T. S. Eliot, ”Preludes”
Ezra Pound, ”In A Station of the Metro”
W. B. Yeats, ”Easter, 1916,” ”The Second Coming”
W. H. Auden, ”Musée des Beaux Arts”
Stevie Smith, ”Marriage I think”
Derek Walcott, ”A Far Cry from Africa”
Seamus Heaney, ”Punishment”
Prose:
T.S.Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Penguin, 2004.*
James Joyce, ”The Dead”
Katherine Mansfield, ”The Garden Party”
William Trevor, ”The Distant Past,” ”The Potato Dealer”, ”Against the Odds”
Drama:
Sarah Kane, Cleansed. Methuen.*
Culture and History:
John Oakland, British Civilization, 6th ed., Routledge, 2006.* (Edition obligatory)
Jeremy Black, A History of the British Isles. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.* Or
Mustad and Rahbek (eds.), A Short Introduction to the History of the United Kingdom, Fagbokforlaget, 2006.*
Reference:
Michael Alexander, A History of English Literature, Macmillan, 2000.*
(Chapter 4: Shakespeare and the drama, and Chapters 7-14).
M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms. 7th ed. Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1998.*