EL1007:03
Getting of Wisdom: Literary Youth and Maturity
Townsville
26 lectures/seminars, 10 tutorials. First semester.
Staff: Professor T Hassall, Dr G Mercer, Dr C Taylor.
A range of fiction, prose and plays from Shakespeare to the present which deal with the lives of young people and their growth to maturity.
Learning Objectives:
- a sound knowledge and understanding of the set texts;
- an ability to analyse and critique themes in a range of genres;
- an ability to place fictional texts in a cultural context;
- an ability to apply some basic principles of literary criticism;
- an awareness of a range of valid approaches to literary texts;
- an ability to structure an argument and to write a formal essay on a literary text;
- an ability to recognise how different genres interact with similar subject matter, e.g. technical devices in poetry: metre, rhythm and rhyme; narrative structure and characterisation in fiction; dramaturgy and characterisation in plays.
Assessment by one assignment of 500 words, one essay of 1,000 words and a second essay of 1,500 words (40%); weekly tutorial participation (20%); one three-hour examination (40%).