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ENG142N
English Literature, Culture and Society after 1900
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2016
1516
10.06.16
Books:
Mark Haddon (2003) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. London: Vintage. ISBN
9780099450252 (280 pp)
Salman Rushdie (1981) Midnight’s Children, Book 1. London: Vintage. ISBN 9780099578512 (158 pp)
Art Spiegelmann (2003) The Complete Maus. London: Penguin. ISBN9780141014081 (296 pp)
Tom Stoppard (1993) Arcadia. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN9780571169344 (129 pp)
Morgan, Kenneth O. (2000) Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP. ISBN
9780192853974 (125 pp)
Philip Jenkins, A History of the United States (2012) Chapters 5, 6 and 7 (This book will also be used for
ENG144 in the spring term) ISBN9780230282872 (123 pp)
Film:
Stanley Kubrick (1969) 2001: A Space Odyssey Warner Home Video
Digital compendia (available as PDF files in Fronter) and online material:
Literature and Culture
Short stories etc:
John Cheever “The Swimmer”
Katherine Mansfield “Bliss”
James Joyce “The Dead”
Zora Neal Hurston “How it Feels to be Colored Me”
Toni Morrison “Recitatif”
Virginia Woolf “Professions for Women” and excerpt from Mrs Dalloway
Sherman Alexie “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix
Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock”
Poems:
Patience Agbabi “Prologue (Grime Mix) to Telling Tales,”
Elizabeth Bishop “One Art”
Peter Howard “Xylo,”
Sylvia Plath “Mad Girl’s Love Song.”
Gillian Clarke “Miracle on St. David’s Day”
Carol Ann Duffy “Text”
Jorie Graham “Prayer”
Seamus Heaney “Digging”
Dylan Thomas “Do not go gentle into that good night”
Derek Walcott “A Far Cry from Africa”
T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”
Ezra Pound “In a Station of the Metro”
William Carlos Williams “This is Just to Say” and “Spring and All”
Art, Music and Architecture:
Marcel Duchamp Fountain and Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Pablo Picasso Guernica
Jackson Pollock Full Fathom Five
Mark Rothko No. 61 (Rust and Blue), Untitled (Black on Grey)
Andy Warhol; Campbell’s Soup Cans
Roy Lichtenstein Whaam!
The Empire State Building, World Trade Center, “The Shard,” and Burj Khalifa.
Various songs and musical pieces, from classical music to contemporary pop
Drama:
Excerpts from Sophocles Oedipus the King, Ben Jonson Volpone; Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot;
Sarah Kane Blasted
Erlend Lavik “Style in The Wire”
Jason Mittell “Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television”
History, Politics and Society:
John Oakland British Civilization pp. 89-120
David C. Mauk and John Oakland (2013) American Civilization: An Introduction pp. 64-76
Robert J. McKeever and Philip Davies Politics USA pp. 9-24
Nick Davies Hack Attack pp. 361-393
Rattansi Multiculturalism pp. 7-30
Boyer Promises to Keep pp. 220-247
Thomas G. Paterson, “The Cold War Begins” in Chafe and Sitkoff A History of Our Time pp. 7-13
Harry S. Truman, “The Truman Doctrine” in Chafe and Sitkoff, pp. 32-35
Kevin Phillips, “Reagan’s America: A Capitalist Offense” in Chafe and Sitkoff, pp. 399-410
Vincent Harding, “So Much History, So Much Future: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Second Coming of
America” in Chafe and Sitkoff, pp. 143-158
Nelson Mandela (1995) Long Walk to Freedom pp. 511-530
Mustad et al, (2012) Modern Britain: Developments in Contemporary British Society Ch. 5. “Britain in
the World” pp. 94-119
Text on Fronter about the Brexit referendum c. 2 pp
Text on Fronter about the U.S. presidential election c. 2 pp
Supplementary reading:
Close Reading Guide (available on Fronter)
Academic Writing Guide (available on Fronter)
If you wish to access the digital resources outside campus, they are available through the
remote access solution: http://www.hivolda.no/for-students/it-services/remote-access