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Course syllabus - Comparative Literature 4: Theory and Method

Scope

7.5 credits

Course code

LIA048

Valid from

Autumn semester 2026

Education level

Second cycle

Progressive Specialisation

A1N (Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements)

Main area(s)

Comparative Literature

Organisation

Department of Social Sciences and Humanities

Ratified

2021-12-14

Revised

2025-11-03

Literature lists

Course literature is preliminary up to 8 weeks before course start. Course literature can be valid over several semesters.

    • Ratified date: 2024-11-08
    • Latest update: 2025-05-27

    Books

    Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love; Burman, Lars

    Skrifter.: Bd 4 Törnrosens bok : duodesupplagan.

    Även tillgänglig via Litteraturbanken: https://litteraturbanken.se/f%C3%B6rfattare/AlmqvistCJL/titlar/SamladeVerk6/sida/III/etext

    ISBN: 91-7844-321-0 (inb.) :

    LIBRIS-ID: 8778870

    Stockholm, Gidlund i samarbete med Svenska vitterhetssamf. och Almqvistsällsk., xxiii, [1], 319 s.

    Widdowson, Peter; Brooker, Peter

    A practical reader in contemporary literary theory

    ISBN: 0-13-442567-7

    LIBRIS-ID: 4560778

    London, Prentice Hall, 498 s.

    Brontë, Charlotte; Jack, Jane; Smith, Margaret

    Jane Eyre

    (valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 0198114907

    LIBRIS-ID: 4620977

    Repr. with corr., Oxford, Clarendon, xxx, 637 s.

    Morrison, Toni

    Beloved: a novel

    (valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 0394535979

    LIBRIS-ID: 4887609

    New York, Knopf, 275 s.

    Selden, Raman; Widdowson, Peter; Brooker, Peter

    A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory

    ISBN: 0-582-89410-7

    LIBRIS-ID: 9974601

    5. ed., Harlow, Pearson Longman, viii, 302 s.

    Sofokles, ; Zilliacus, Emil; Gullberg, Hjalmar

    Kung Oidipus: Antigone

    (valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 91-20-07394-1 (inb.) ; 127:00

    LIBRIS-ID: 8347338

    Stockholm, AWE/Geber, 170, [1] s.

    Söderbäck, Fanny (red.)

    Feminist Readings of Antigone (SUNY series in gender theory)

    State University of New York Press, 2010,

    Compendiums

Examination

HEM1, Take-home examination, 7.5 credits, individual examination concerning learning outcomes 1-3, grades Fail (U), Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).

A passing grade requires that assignments are completed with appropriate language use.

A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding disability study support, can request adaptions for the examination. It is the examiner who takes decisions on any adaptions, based on the certificate and other conditions.

Grade

Three-grade scale