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Course syllabus - The Unsustainable: Literature and the Critique of Civilization

Scope

7.5 credits

Course code

LIA050

Valid from

Autumn semester 2024

Education level

First cycle

Progressive Specialisation

G1N (First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements)

School

School of Education, Culture and Communication

Ratified

2023-12-12

Literature lists

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

    • Ratified date: 2024-06-24
    • Latest update: 2025-06-24

    Books

    Atwood, Margaret

    Oryx and Crake: a novel

    (eller valfri utgåva på svenska eller engelska)

    ISBN: 9780385721677

    LIBRIS-ID: 17215451

    1st Anchor Books ed., 389 p.

    Bondestam, Linda; Bondestam, Milja

    Mitt bottenliv: av en ensam axolotl

    ISBN: 9789523332966

    LIBRIS-ID: jv12sjf4g87b063l

    Helsingfors, Förlaget, 41 onumrerade sidor

    Boye, Karin

    Astarte: roman

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 9789188753380

    LIBRIS-ID: fsnhk247c8bz3tmb

    Göteborg, Lindelöws bokförlag, 174 sidor

    Dickens, Charles

    Hard Times

    (eller valfri utgåva på svenska eller engelska)

    ISBN: 9780007449941

    LIBRIS-ID: 0gfkbbpjxzbt6qkq

    URL: Link

    Harper Press, viii, 370 sidor

    Haushofer, Marlen; Kjellberg, Rebecca

    Väggen

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 9789186905224

    LIBRIS-ID: 14069103

    1. uppl., Malmö, Thorén & Lindskog, 255 s.

    Laestadius, Ann-Helén

    Stöld: roman

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 9789189771598

    LIBRIS-ID: wdjvj1z4tpz7c9z8

    [Stockholm], Romanus & Selling, 440 sidor

    Lidman, Sara

    Gruva

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 9789100157791

    LIBRIS-ID: 19965369

    URL: Omslagsbild

    Albert Bonniers förlag, 136 s.

    Lindgren, Astrid; Wikland, Ilon

    Ronja rövardotter

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 9129657512

    LIBRIS-ID: 9584369

    4. uppl., Stockholm, Rabén & Sjögren, 240, [2] s.

    Murata, Sayaka; Takemori, Ginny Tapley

    Convenience store woman

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 9780802129628

    LIBRIS-ID: v5hz77l3s1c5qmhw

    URL: Link

    First Grove Atlantic paperback edition, New York, Grove Press, 172 sidor

    Persson, Malte

    Undergången: dikter

    (eller valfri utgåva)

    ISBN: 9789100183943

    LIBRIS-ID: 7lfgh914522228dq

    [Stockholm], Albert Bonniers förlag, 175 sidor

    Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Gimdal, Gustaf; Grahn, Inga-Lill

    Kulturen och människan: två avhandlingar

    ISBN: 9789171733672

    LIBRIS-ID: 12744940

    2. uppl., Göteborg, Daidalos, 171 s.

    Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Holmberg, John-Henri; Winberg, Måns

    Frankenstein eller den moderne Prometeus

    (eller valfri utgåva på svenska eller engelska)

    ISBN: 9789171370235

    LIBRIS-ID: 20798316

    Lund, Novapress, 246 sidor

    Thoreau, Henry David; Handberg, Peter

    Walden

    (eller valfri utgåva på svenska eller engelska)

    ISBN: 9789127119567

    LIBRIS-ID: 1kbv98zczrh309xm

    Natur & Kultur Allmänlitteratur, 434 sidor

    Compendiums

    Kompendium tema 1 (några romantiska dikter, Philips) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Kompendium tema 2 (Rydberg, Benedictsson, Ekelöf, Pettersson, Holm) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Kompendium tema 3 (Carson, Martinson, Richards) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Kompendium tema 4 (Larkin, Haux) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Kompendium tema 5 (Bradbury, Berry, Steffen et al) (som pdf på Canvas)

    Jetnil-Kijiner, Kathy,

    Anointed

    URL: Link

    Sörlin, Sverker

    Naturkontraktet: om naturumgängets idéhistoria

    ISBN: 9177984471

    LIBRIS-ID: 7666030

    Stockholm, Carlsson, 293 s.

Requirements

General entry requirements

Examination

INL1, Written assignment, 6 credits, written assignment concerning learning outcome 1, grades Fail (U), Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).
INL2, Written assignment, 1.5 credits, written assignment concerning learning outcome 2, grades Fail (U) or Pass (G).

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Grade

Three-grade scale