2009 Course Handbook
ENGL270: Australian Literature
Writing in Australia has always provided a compelling forum for social anxieties and crises in a fragile national identity. This unit explores the relation between Australian society and the forms of culture it has produced in the 20th century. "Literature" is broadly conceived through its functions as social critique or social "settlement", with a focus on the questions asked by Indigenous Australian writing. Readers will be introduced to novels, poetry, theatre and film from across the century, including contemporary Australian writing. The representation of relations between place and culture, the city/bush divide, history, memory and subjectivity, class and social change, gender codes and sexuality, recent challenges to unifying national myths, Indigenous writing and (post) colonial frames form some of the unit's concerns.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
| When Offered: |
D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: 4 April) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Nicole Moore |
| Prerequisites: | ENGL120 |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of English |
Timetable Information
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