EL4060:06
Australian Literature
Townsville, Cairns
HECS Band 1
26 hours seminars. Semester 1 (teleconferenced from Cairns) (Townsville campus); internal delivery mode Semester 1 and 2 (Cairns campus).
Available to students in the level 4 English Honours program.
Staff: Professor P Pierce.
A survey of Australian poetry, fiction and drama and of the changing contexts which have influenced this writing.
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 Australian literature;
- an understanding of the influence of social, political and literary developments in the period;
- a sense of the progressive development of an identifiably Australian tradition of writing.
Assessment by one 3000 word essay (40%); seminar participation (20%); three-hour examination (40%).
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