EL2023 - American Literature
[Offered in even-numbered years]
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | School of Arts and Social Sciences (pre 2015) |
A selection of American fiction and poetry since 1850.
Learning Outcomes
- to acquire the ability to read the set texts in their cultural and historical contexts;
- to attain detailed knowledge of each of the set texts, their structures and narrative strategies;
- to broaden and intensify the literary-critical skills and understanding attained by students at earlier levels, particularly where essay-writing and extra-literary issues are concerned;
- to develop an understanding of how 20th century American writing engages with those myths;
- to develop an understanding of the importance of some landmark American texts of the 19th century to the development of national myths;
- to understand recent challenges to the authority of the American literary canon.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | EL3023 EL5023 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 28-Aug-2014 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Greg Manning. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); essays (40%). |
| External, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 28-Aug-2014 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Greg Manning. |
| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); essays (40%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 28-Aug-2014 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Greg Manning. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); (40%). |
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