SFE10108 English: Culture Studies I (Autumn 2014)

The culture studies part focuses on the topics that can supposedly best create an understanding of typical British values and norms. An introduction is given to the development of national institutions, politics, society and culture.

The literature part of the course gives an overview of literary analysis and the literary-historical development from the 16th century until today. Three novels are read as well as two plays, three short stories  and a selection of poetry and non-fiction from different epochs. The texts are studied from the perspective of the time and society they emerged from.

KNOWLEDGE
The student has:

-Knowledge and understanding of British culture and society from a historical perspective
-Knowledge of literary epochs and themes in British literature;

SKILLS
The student has:

-ability to analyse and evaluate a selection of British fiction;
-analytical and critical skills in their encounters with fiction and factual prose
-an interest in British culture and literature
-skills in written and oral presentation and argumentation in English

GENERAL COMPETENCE
The student has:

-skills in searching, evaluating and using secondary literature in the university college's library and in BIBSYS and other databases.

· Duckworth, M. Kompendium: Culture Studies 1 (Tilgjengelig i bokhandel, HiØ)
· Alexander, M. A History of English Literature
· Peck, J. and M. Coyle. Literary Terms and Criticism
· Griffith, K. Writing Essays about Literature
. Gibaldi, J. MLA Handbook for writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. or an equivalent manual for HARVARD, APA, or other reference systems

Novels:

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

Monica Ali: Brick Lane

Plays:

William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

Tom Stoppard: Arcadia

All of the following texts are part of Culture Studies 1 (Kompendium).

Poetry:

William Shakespeare: 2 sonnets

John Donne: 'Death be not Proud'

John Milton: 'When I Consider How My Light is Spent'

Wordsworth: 'Upon Westminster Bridge' and 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'

John Keats: 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

John Clare, 'Decay'

Christina Rossetti, 'In an Artist's Studio' and 'Winter: My Secret'

Robert Browning: 'My Last Duchess'

William Butler Yeats: 'Easter 1916'

Wilfred Owen: 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'T. S. Elliot: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

W.H. Auden: 'Musée des Beax Arts'

Seamus Heaney: 'Punishment'

Ted Hughes: 'Night Ride on Ariel' and 'Sam'

Philip Larkin, 'MCMXIV'

Carol Ann Duffy, 'Prayer'

Tony Harrison, 'v'

Prose and short stories

Jonathan Swift: 'A Modest Proposal'

Katherine Mansfield: 'The Garden Party'

Doris Lessing: 'To Room 19'

James Joyce 'The Dead'

Civilization
· McCormick, J. Contemporary Britain. Palgrave MacMillan (newest edition).
. Cunliffe, B, The Penguin Illustrated History of Britain and Ireland (2004)

All material handed out in lectures or published in Fronter is part of the curriculum.
All students must have access to an English-English dictionary, for instance Collins Cobuild Dictionary, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary or another dictionary for non native speakers of English (Learner's dictionaries).