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Course syllabus - English 3, American Literature and Eco-criticism
Scope
7.5 credits
Course code
ENA303
Valid from
Autumn semester 2013
Education level
First cycle
Progressive Specialisation
G2F (First cycle, has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements).
Main area(s)
English
School
School of Education, Culture and Communication
Ratified
2013-02-01
Literature lists
Course literature is preliminary up to 8 weeks before course start. Course literature can be valid over several semesters.
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Books
Oryx and Crake : a novel
1st Anchor Books ed. : 2004 - 389 p.
ISBN: 9780385721677 LIBRIS-ID: 17215451
The Land of Little Rain
URL: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ep.bib.mdh.se/lib/malardalen-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3314339
Pilgrim at tinker creek
Norwich : Canterbury Press, [2011] - 290 sidor
ISBN: 9781848250789 LIBRIS-ID: 22101605
We are all completely beside ourselves
1. UK ed. : London : Serpent's Tail, 2014 - 319 s.
ISBN: 978-1-84668-966-6 LIBRIS-ID: 16891391
Walden, or, Life in the woods
New York : Dover Publications, 1995. - v, 216 p. ISBN: 9780486284958,
URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm#chap04
Compendiums
A selection of short literary texts will be made available via Canvas, or by the teacher.
Articles
Articles of ecocriticism and other secondary readings will be made available via Canvas or by the teacher.
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
The wild and the domestic : animal representation, ecocriticism, and western American literature
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2000. - xiii, 178 pages
ISBN: 0874173477 LIBRIS-ID: 19373424
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014 - xiii, 266 pages
ISBN: 9781107628960 (paperback) LIBRIS-ID: 16401961
URL: Link
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Books
Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness
Oryx and Crake : a novel
1st Anchor Books ed. : 2004 - 389 p.
ISBN: 9780385721677 LIBRIS-ID: 17215451
The Land of Little Rain
URL: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ep.bib.mdh.se/lib/malardalen-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3314339
Prodigal Summer
First paperback edition : London : Faber and Faber, 2013 - 447 s.
ISBN: 9780571298853 LIBRIS-ID: 14701735
Walden, or, Life in the woods
New York : Dover Publications, 1995. - v, 216 p. ISBN: 9780486284958,
URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm#chap04
Literature as cultural ecology : sustainable texts
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 - ix, 301 pages
ISBN: 9781350051966 LIBRIS-ID: 22513292
Compendiums
A selection of short literary texts will be made available via Canvas, or by the teacher.
Articles
Articles of ecocriticism and other secondary readings will be made available via Canvas or by the teacher.
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
The wild and the domestic : animal representation, ecocriticism, and western American literature
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2000. - xiii, 178 pages
ISBN: 0874173477 LIBRIS-ID: 19373424
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014 - xiii, 266 pages
ISBN: 9781107628960 (paperback) LIBRIS-ID: 16401961
URL: Link
Other Materials
Avatar
Grizzly Man
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Books
Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness
New York : Ballantine Books, - xii,337 s.
ISBN: 0-345-32649-0 LIBRIS-ID: 9945865
Oryx and Crake : a novel
1st Anchor Books ed. : 2004 - 389 p.
ISBN: 9780385721677 LIBRIS-ID: 17215451
The Land of Little Rain
URL: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ep.bib.mdh.se/lib/malardalen-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3314339
Prodigal Summer
First paperback edition : London : Faber and Faber, 2013 - 447 s.
ISBN: 9780571298853 LIBRIS-ID: 14701735
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014 - xiii, 266 pages
ISBN: 9781107628960 (paperback) LIBRIS-ID: 16401961
URL: Link
Walden, or, Life in the woods
New York : Dover Publications, 1995. - v, 216 p. ISBN: 9780486284958,
URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm#chap04
Compendiums
A selection of short literary texts will be made available via Canvas, or by the teacher.
Articles
Articles of ecocriticism and other secondary readings will be made available via Canvas or by the teacher.
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
The wild and the domestic : animal representation, ecocriticism, and western American literature
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2000. - xiii, 178 pages
ISBN: 0874173477 LIBRIS-ID: 19373424
Other Materials
Wall-E
Disney/Pixar,
Avatar
Grizzly Man
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Books
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Orion Publishing Group, 2007 - 224 s.
ISBN: 9780575079939 LIBRIS-ID: 12636205
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014 - xiii, 266 pages
ISBN: 9781107628960 (paperback) LIBRIS-ID: 16401961
URL: Link
Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Oxford University Press, 2000
Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness
New York : Ballantine Books, - xii,337 s.
ISBN: 0-345-32649-0 LIBRIS-ID: 9945865
The Land of Little Rain
Reading Classics, 2018
ISBN: 978-91-517-9442-6 LIBRIS-ID: 22631753
URL: Omslagsbild
Into the wild
[New ed.] : London : Pan, 1998 - 324 p.
ISBN: 0-330-35169-9 (pbk) ; LIBRIS-ID: 8283335
A Sand County almanac and sketches here and there
1949 - xiii, 226 p.
ISBN: 9780195007770 LIBRIS-ID: 19419718
The abstract wild
Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, 1996 - xvii, 136 p.
ISBN: 0-8165-1394-5- LIBRIS-ID: 5760965
Compendiums
A selection of short literary texts will be made available via Canvas, or by the teacher.
Articles
Articles of ecocriticism and other secondary readings will be made available via Canvas or by the teacher.
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
The wild and the domestic : animal representation, ecocriticism, and western American literature
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2000. - xiii, 178 pages
ISBN: 0874173477 LIBRIS-ID: 19373424
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
Other Materials
-
Books
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Orion Publishing Group, 2007 - 224 s.
ISBN: 9780575079939 LIBRIS-ID: 12636205
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014 - xiii, 266 pages
ISBN: 9781107628960 (paperback) LIBRIS-ID: 16401961
URL: Link
Green grass, running water
New York : Bantam Books, 1994 - 469 s.
ISBN: 0-553-37368-4 LIBRIS-ID: 5045839
Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Oxford University Press, 2000
Articles
Articles will be made available in Blackboard.
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
The wild and the domestic : animal representation, ecocriticism, and western American literature
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2000. - xiii, 178 pages
ISBN: 0874173477 LIBRIS-ID: 19373424
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
Other Materials
Wall-E
Disney/Pixar,
Avatar
Grizzly Man
-
Books
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Orion Publishing Group, 2007 - 224 s.
ISBN: 9780575079939 LIBRIS-ID: 12636205
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
Walden, or, Life in the woods : on the duty of civil disobedience
New York : Rinehart, [1948] - xii, 304 p.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014 - xiii, 266 pages
ISBN: 9781107628960 (paperback) LIBRIS-ID: 16401961
URL: Link
Green grass, running water
New York : Bantam Books, 1994 - 469 s.
ISBN: 0-553-37368-4 LIBRIS-ID: 5045839
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
The wild and the domestic : animal representation, ecocriticism, and western American literature
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2000. - xiii, 178 pages
ISBN: 0874173477 LIBRIS-ID: 19373424
Other Materials
Wall-E
Disney/Pixar,
Over the Hedge
Dreamworks,
Avatar
.,
Grizzly Man
,,
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Books
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Orion Publishing Group, 2007 - 224 s.
ISBN: 9780575079939 LIBRIS-ID: 12636205
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
Walden, or, Life in the woods : on the duty of civil disobedience
New York : Rinehart, [1948] - xii, 304 p.
Into the wild
[New ed.] : London : Pan, 1998 - 324 p.
ISBN: 0-330-35169-9 (pbk) ; LIBRIS-ID: 8283335
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014 - xiii, 266 pages
ISBN: 9781107628960 (paperback) LIBRIS-ID: 16401961
URL: Link
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
Other Materials
Wall-E
Disney/Pixar,
Over the Hedge
Dreamworks,
Avatar
.,
Grizzly Man
,,
-
Books
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Orion Publishing Group, 2007 - 224 s.
ISBN: 9780575079939 LIBRIS-ID: 12636205
Go down, Moses
New York : Vintage International, 1990 - 365 s.
ISBN: 0-679-73217-9 LIBRIS-ID: 8294056
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
A thousand acres : a novel
1st Anchor Books ed. : New York : Anchor Books, 2003 - 371 p.
ISBN: 1-4000-3383-7 (pbk.) LIBRIS-ID: 9451354
Walden, or, Life in the woods : on the duty of civil disobedience
New York : Rinehart, [1948] - xii, 304 p.
Comppendiums
Selected text for American Literature and Ecocriticism
Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation,
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
Other Materials
Wall-E
Disney/Pixar,
Over the Hedge
Dreamworks,
Avatar
.,
Grizzly Man
,,
-
Books
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Orion Publishing Group, 2007 - 224 s.
ISBN: 9780575079939 LIBRIS-ID: 12636205
Go down, Moses
New York : Vintage International, 1990 - 365 s.
ISBN: 0-679-73217-9 LIBRIS-ID: 8294056
Ecocriticism
2nd ed. : London : Routledge, 2012. - x, 230 p.
ISBN: 0-415-66786-0 ¹12.99 LIBRIS-ID: 12319675
The Oxford book of American short stories
2. ed. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 - xix, 873 s.
ISBN: 9780199744398 LIBRIS-ID: 13535070
A thousand acres : a novel
1st Anchor Books ed. : New York : Anchor Books, 2003 - 371 p.
ISBN: 1-4000-3383-7 (pbk.) LIBRIS-ID: 9451354
Walden, Civil disobedience and other writings : authoritative texts, journal, reviews and posthumous assessments, criticism
3rd ed. : New York : W. W. Norton, c2008 - xiv, 672 p.
ISBN: 0393930904 (pbk.) LIBRIS-ID: 14878822
Comppendiums
Selected text for American Literature and Ecocriticism
Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation,
Reference Literature
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
Other Materials
Wall-E
Disney/Pixar,
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Books
Tracks : a novel
New York : Harper & Row, Publ., cop 1988 - 226 s.
ISBN: 0-06-097245-9 LIBRIS-ID: 4491769
The Oxford book of American short stories
Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 1992 - 768 s.
ISBN: 978-0-19-509262-2 (pbk.) LIBRIS-ID: 4604382
The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 254 s.
ISBN: 9780521720908 (pbk) LIBRIS-ID: 12113256
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
London : Voyager, 1997 - 183 s.
ISBN: 0-00-648280-5 LIBRIS-ID: 4465535
A thousand acres : a novel
1st Anchor Books ed. : New York : Anchor Books, 2003 - 371 p.
ISBN: 1-4000-3383-7 (pbk.) LIBRIS-ID: 9451354
Compendiums
Selected texts for American Literature and Ecocriticism
Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation,
Web Addresses
Walden
Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation,
Objectives
This course builds upon and enhances previous knowledge of literary analysis and criticism, and provides additional knowledge of North American 19th- and 20th-century literature. The course further provides an introduction to ecocriticism as a field of research. An additional objective is continued training in scientific writing in the field of literature.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
- define and describe key concepts within ecocriticism
- read, analyze and interpret literary texts from different periods
- read and discuss examples of literary theory and literary criticism
- reflect upon and describe ecocritical research methods
- plan and carry out a limited ecocritical study
Course content
- North American literature, both canonical works and modern texts, as well as selected examples of theoretical and applied ecocriticism
Tuition
The teaching and learning activities comprise seminars, tutorials, assignments and presentations, including some ICT components. Participation in all scheduled teaching activities is mandatory.
The course or parts of the course can also be offered as distance education via a web-based learning platform. Even in this case, mandatory meetings may occur.
Specific requirements
English 1, 30 credits, and English 2, 30 credits (of which at least 22.5 credits passed at the start of the course), or the equivalent.
Examination
Assignments: essay (INL1), 2.5 credits, marks Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).
Assignments: portfolio of oral analyses documented in writing[TS1] (INL5), 5 credits, marks Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).
[TS1]Notera att motsvarande del finns två gånger i den svenska versionen. En gång kan tas bort.
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Study guideGrade
Three-grade scale
Interim Regulations and Other Regulations
The course cannot be included in a degree together with English 3.