TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIAN WRITING

TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIAN WRITING 12.5 1st year Garry Kinnane. First semester One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:

will be familiar with a diverse selection of fictional and poetic texts written in Australia in the twentieth century;
will have an understanding of the authorial and cultural contexts of the fictional and poetic texts studied;
will have an understanding of the roles of gender, class, ethnicity and race, both in specific acts of reading and in fictional and poetic representations of Australian culture more generally;
will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing and presentation of written work;
will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied;
will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

This subject introduces students to a range of twentieth-century Australian writing, particularly in the genres of fiction and poetry. It aims to provide students with a detailed historical and cultural context for each of the texts studied. Written work of not more than 4,000 words. Boyd M The Cardboard Crown. Castro B Drift. Clift C Mermaid Singing. Corris P The Cliff Hardy Omnibus. Cusack D and James F Come in Spinner. Malouf D The Great World. Mead P and Tranter J eds The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry. Hospital J T The Tiger in the Tiger Pit. White P The Twyborn Affair. Willmot E Pemulwuy: The Rainbow Warrior. TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIAN WRITING 12.5 Garry Kinnane. First semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully:

will be familiar with a diverse selection of fictional and poetic texts written in Australia in the twentieth century;
will have an understanding of the authorial and cultural contexts of the fictional and poetic texts studied;
will have an understanding of the roles of gender, class, ethnicity and race, both in specific acts of reading and in
fictional and poetic representations of Australian culture more generally;
will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing and presentation of written work;
will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied; and
will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

This subject introduces students to a range of twentieth-century Australian writing, particularly in the genres of fiction and poetry. It aims to provide students with a detailed historical and cultural context for each of the texts studied. Written work of not more than 4,000 words. Boyd M The Cardboard Crown. Castro B Drift. Clift C Mermaid Singing. Corris P The Cliff Hardy Omnibus. Cusack D and James F Come in Spinner. Malouf D The Great World. Mead P and Tranter J eds The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry Hospital J T The Tiger in the Tiger Pit. White P The Twyborn Affair. Willmot E Pemulwuy: The Rainbow Warrior.