EL4005:04
*Recent Australian Fiction
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: 24 units of level 3 EL subjects including EL3005 and EL3025 (Townsville); substantial achievement in 3 levels of EL subjects (Cairns)
Inadmissable Subject Combination: EL4002 EL4004
26 seminars. Full year.
Available to students in the level 4 English Honours program. Students taking EL4005 do not enrol in EL4002.
Staff: Professor A J Hassall.
A detailed examination of a selection of Australian fiction from the last thirty years and of the changing contexts which have influenced them.
Learning Objectives:
- a detailed knowledge of each of the set texts;
- a familiarity with the critical reception of the set texts and the secondary literature surrounding them;
- an understanding of the changes in the generic boundaries of “the novel” in the period;
- an understanding of the influence of social, political and literary developments in the last 30 years on fiction writing;
- a sense of the progressive development of an identifiably Australian tradition of fiction.
Assessment by seminar, introduction/essay of 3,000 words each (40%); tutorial participation (20%); one three-hour examination (40%).
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