2009 Course Handbook
LIT829: Writing Identity, Reading Lives: Biography and Autobiography from Antiquity to the Present
This unit looks at the changing tradition of biography and autobiography as a literary form, including diaries, letters, memoirs as well as fictional (auto) biographies. The unit explores the ways in which ideas about subjectivity and identity have changed across the ages. It considers the importance of cultural context in reading and writing biography and life stories and questions about the relationship between biography and fiction.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: | TBD - To be determined |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Kerstin Pilz |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
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Faculty of Arts |