Pensum/l?ringskrav

Litteratur

Poesi

  • Dylan Thomas: "Fern Hill", "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
  • Ted Hughes:"Wind", "Thrushes"
  • Geoffrey Hill:"September Song", "Ovid in the Third Reich", "Ode on the Loss of the Titanic"
  • Philip Larkin: "High Windows", "The Whitsun Weddings", "Days"
  • Thom Gunn: "On the Move"

Romaner (Penguin-utgaver med mindre noe annet er spesifisert)

  • Graham Greene The End of the Affair
  • George Orwell 1984
  • Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
  • Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Noveller (Penguin eller en annen paperback-utgave)

  • Doris Lessing The Other Woman
  • Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Skuespill (Begge utgitt p? Faber & Faber, 1991)

  • John Osborne Look Back in Anger
  • Harold Pinter The Caretaker

Kulturkunnskap

Richard Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy , Penguin. ss. 9-131 og 169-272.

David Lodge: Out of the Shelter , Penguin.

George Orwell: "Politics and the English Language" i The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Fra Kompendiet British Civilisation Texts:

  • Winston Churchill, short extracts from speeches
  • Harold Nicolson, short extracts from Diaries and Letters
  • Susan Cooper, "Snoek Piquante: The Trials and Tribulations of the British Housewife"
  • Pearson Phillips, "The New Look"
  • Anthony Bailey, extracts from England, First and Last
  • Dorothy L. Sayers, "Are Women Human?"
  • Monica Redlich, "The Line and Where it is Drawn"
  • George Orwell, "England at First Glance", "The Future of the English People" og "Northerners and Southerners"
  • Charles Allen, "Topees Overboard"
  • Robert Skidelsky, "Lessons of Suez"
  • David Thomson, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
  • Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, "How the Old School Tie Changed its Stripes"
  • John Betjeman, extracts from Betjeman's London

Alle studenter b?r eie en kort "History of Britain in the 20th Century", f. eks bind 9 av The Pelican History of England.

Published Mar. 6, 2005 11:47 AM