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Course syllabus - Comparative Literature 3: Topics in Literary Studies

Scope

7.5 credits

Course code

LIA041

Valid from

Autumn semester 2022

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)

Comparative Literature

Organisation

School of Education, Culture and Communication

Ratified

2021-12-14

Literature lists

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

    • Ratified date: 2025-07-15
    • Latest update: 2025-07-15

    Books

    Huxley, Aldous

    Brave New World

    Zamyatin, Yevgeny

    We

    Canongate,

    Orwell, George

    1984

    Boye, Karin

    Kallocain

    Lindgren, Astrid

    Bröderna Lejonhjärta

    Collins, Suzanne

    The Hunger Games

    Lidman, Sara

    Samtal i Hanoi

    Hemmer, Jarl

    En man och hans samvete

    Lagerkvist, Pär

    Dvärgen

    Atwood, Margaret

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Varoufakis, Yanis

    Another Now. Dispatches from an Alternative Present

    Compendiums

    Kompendium med sekundärlitteraturtexter. Tillgängligt i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Skönlitteraturkompendium för kortare texter. Tillgänglig i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Articles

    Kumar, K

    The Ends of Utopia

    URL: DOI

    New Literary History, Volume 41, Number 3. Johns Hopkins University Press,

    Löfgren, I

    Nineteen Eighty-Four, totalitarian lived skepticism, and unlearning how to love

    URL: DOI:

    Policy Futures in Education, 20(3), 344-359,

    Löfgren, I; Schou Therkildsen , L; Rosengren, M

    Att tonka sig ett annat nu, i Pandemiska reflektioner. Retoriska och litteraturfilosofiska undersökningar i coronas tid

    Studia Rhetorica Upsaliensia, Uppsala Rhetorical Studies ,

    Roh, Z

    How to Survive Totalitarianism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt

    URL: DOI:

    New Literary History, Volume 54, Number 2, Johns Hopkins University Press,

    Perera, Y

    , Skriva ur såret. Antifascism genom svaghet, lidande och medglädje i Mirjam Tuominens prosa

    URL: Link

    Samlaren. Tidskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur, vol. 145,

    • Ratified date: 2024-06-11
    • Latest update: 2025-05-27

    Books

    Murray, Simone

    The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era

    ISBN: 9781421426105

    LIBRIS-ID: 7lh224hp5rwjk3ph

    Samuelsson, Lina

    Kritikens ordning: svenska bokrecensioner 1906, 1956, 2006

    ISSN 2002-9853, Essä, nr 11-12

    ISBN: 9789198044713

    LIBRIS-ID: 14215463

    URL: Fritt tillgänglig via Karlstads universitets webbplats

    Karlstad, Bild, text & form, 272 s.

    Compendiums

    Kompendium med litteraturkritiska texter. Tillgängligt i kursmodul på Canvas. Skönlitteraturlista. Tillgänglig i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Articles

    Charles, Michel

    En komisk episod hos Proust, i Ord & Bild, nr 2/1997.

    Tillgänglig i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Tigerstedt, E. N.

    Den kritiska konsten, i Svensk litteraturkritik: en antologi red. Daniel Andreæ, Stockholm 1965.

    Tillgänglig i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Utdrag ur Arping, Åsa, Hvad gör väl namnet?: anonymitet och varumärkesbyggande i svensk litteraturkritik 1820-1850.

    Tillgänglig i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Utdrag ur Chong, Phillipa K. Inside the critics' circle : book reviewing in uncertain times

    Tillgänglig i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Utdrag ur Forser, Thomas, Kritik av kritiken: 1900-talets svenska litteraturkritik.

    Tillgänglig i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Utdrag ur Guillory, John, Professing criticism : essays on the organization of literary study

    Tillgänglig i kursmodul på Canvas.

    Vetenskapliga artiklar under publicering kan tillkomma.

    URLs

    Ingvarsson, Jonas; Brodén, Daniel; Samuelsson, Lina; Wåhlstrand Skärström, Victor; Zechner, Niklas

    The New Order of Criticism. Explorations of Book Reviews Between the Interpretative and Algorithmic

    URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3232/paper20.pdf

    Reference Literature

    Claésson, Dick; Fyhr, Lars; Hansson, Gunnar D.

    Texter: från Sapfo till Strindberg

    ISBN: 91-44-03248-X (inb.)

    LIBRIS-ID: 10321585

    Lund, Studentlitteratur, [4], xxiii, [1], 1474, [1] s.

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.

For a Pass grade (G) on the course as a whole, the requirements for at least this grade on all examination components must have been fulfilled, as well as the requirements for active participation in the seminars and the successful completion of prescribed group assignments. In the event of individual absences, an opportunity will be given to submit supplementary work in accordance with the teacher's instructions.

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