Skj?nnlitteratur
*Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
*Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities (1859)
*Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (2011)
*Vigdis Hjort, Snakk til meg (2010)
***Longos, Daphnis og Chloe (oversatt av Trygve Width, 1950)
*Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
*Leo Tolstoj, Anna Karenina (1875-77)
*Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Teori
**Cohen, Margaret, “The Chronotopes of the Sea” (Franco Moretti, red., The Novel, vol. 2: Forms and Themes, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton UP, s. 647-666)
**Doody, Margaret Anne, The True Story of the Novel, London: Harper Collins 1997 (s.1–11 og s. 274–300)
**Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich: “The Roads of the Novel” (The Novel, vol. 2, s. 611-646)
**H?gg, Thomas, “The Ancient Greek Novel: A Single Model or a Plurality of Forms?”( Franco Moretti, red., The Novel vol 1: History, Geography, and Culture, s. 125–155
**James, Henry, “The Future of the Novel”. The Critical Muse: Selected Literary Criticism, London: Penguin 1987, s. 335–345)
**Moretti, Frank, “Serious Century” (The Novel, vol. 1, s. 364–400).
**Elisabeth Oxfeldt, Romanen, nasjonen og verden: Nordisk litteratur i et postnasjonalt perspektiv, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2012 (s. 13-33)
Smiley, Jane, ”What is a Novel?” (13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write, London: Faber & Faber, 2006, s. 14-28)
**Thorel-Cailleteau, Sylvie, “The Poetry of Mediocrity” (The Novel, vol. 2, s. 65–94)
*Wood, How Fiction Works, London: Vintage Books, 2009 (194 sider)
**Woolf, Virginia, “Women and Fiction” (Stuart N. Clark (red.), The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol 5: 1929 to 1932, London: The Hogarth Press, s. 28-36)
Anbefalt ekstralesning
Per Thomas Andersen, ?Hvor burde jeg da v?re?? Kosmopolisme og postnasjonalisme i nyere litteratur, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2013
E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel [1927], London: Penguin 1990
Milan Kundera, Romankunsten [1986], oversatt av Kjell Olaf Jensen, Oslo Cappelen 2006
Orhan Pamuk, Den naive og den sentimentale romanforfatteren [2010], oversatt fra engelsk av Cora Skylstad, Oslo: Gyldendal 2013
David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, London: Hamish Hamilton 2010.
Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding [1957], London: Penguin 1977 (el. nyere utgaver. Kap. 1 pensum p? 1302)
Lliam Mcllvanney og Ray Ryan, The Good of the Novel, London: Faber & Faber 2011
Aarseth, Espen, “Narrative Literature in the Turing Universe” (The Novel 2, 839–867)
*Kj?pes (Engelske romaner kj?pes i Penguin eller Oxford classics eller annen kommentert utgave)
** Kompendium
***Elektronisk versjon tilgjengelig p? NB Digital