Course code: ENG 103
Course title: LITERATURE I
Reading list:
Novels
Lee, H. (1997). To Kill a Mockingbird. London: Arrow Books.
McCarthy, C. (2006/2010) The Road. London: Picador.
Morrison, T. (2004). Sula. New York: Vintage International.
In addition each student must read a novel written for young people, to be chosen in consultation with the
course lecturers.
Play
Williams, T. The Glass Menagerie. London: Penguin.
Short stories
Prescott, L. (Ed.). (2008). A World of Difference: An anthology of short stories from five continents.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Carver, R. (2008). What Do You Do in San Francisco?” In L. Prescott, (Ed.), A World of Difference: An
anthology of short stories from five continents. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Faulkner, W. (2003). A Rose for Emily. For example in N. Baym (Red.), The Norton anthology of
American literature (s. 2160-2166). New York: Norton.
Tan, A. (2008). The Joy Luck Club. In L. Prescott, (Ed.), A World of Difference: An anthology of short
stories from five continents. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Oates, J. C. (1994). Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press.
Olsen, T. (1990). I Stand Here Ironing. I G. Övergaard (Red.), Short fictions: stories from the Englishspeaking world of today. [Oslo]: NKS-forlaget.
Proulx, A. (2006). Brokeback Mountain. London: Harper Perennial.
Robinson, R. (2008). Mr Sumarsono. In L. Prescott, (Ed.), A World of Difference: An anthology of short
stories from five continents. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Poems
The texts of the following poems can be found in a compendium on Fronter.
Bradstreet, Anne: “Before the Birth of One of her Children”, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Dickinson, Emily: “A narrow Fellow in the Grass”, No. 258 “There’s a certain Slant of light”
Frost, Robert: “Mending Wall”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Hughes, Langston: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, “Mother to Son”, “I, Too” “Harlem”
Sexton, Anne: “Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward”
Williams, William Carlos: “This is Just to Say”
Plath, Sylvia: “Daddy”, “Morning Song”