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EL1007:03

The Getting of Wisdom: Literary Youth and Maturity

Townsville

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 10 hours tutorials. Semester 2.

Staff:

Professor T Hassall,

Dr C Taylor,

Dr G Mercer.

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 essays (40%); tutorial participation (20%); examination (40%).