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<SUBJECT ID="106-104" CODEUSED="106-104">
<TITLE>WOMEN'S WRITING, WOMEN'S LIVES</TITLE>
<POINTS>12.5 1st year
<COORDINATOR>Stephanie Trigg.
<SEMESTER>First semester
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully:
<ul>
<li>will be familiar with some major developments in women's fiction, poetry, autobiography and theory in English in the twentieth century;
<li>will understand the role of women writers in interpreting and redefining social structures;
<li>will be familiar with some of the linguistic and generic strategies of women's writing and feminist criticism;
<li>will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing and presentation of written work;
<li>will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied;
<li>will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject explores some aspects of twentieth-century women's fiction, autobiography and poetry. It is interested in the connections between changes in women's social positions and the new forms of writing that they developed both to express and achieve those changes. It is concerned with the development of the figure of the woman writer, and with questions of sexual and cultural identity.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Adams B and Tate T eds <i>That Kind of Woman </i>Virago
<ATEXT>Frame J <i>To the Is-Land</i> Paladin
<ATEXT>Winterson J <i>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</i> Vintage
<ATEXT>Hewett D <i>Wild Card</i> McPhee Gribble
<ATEXT>Jolley E <i>The Georges' Wife</i> Penguin
<ATEXT>Huggins R and Huggins J <i>Auntie Rita</i> Aboriginal Studies Press
<ATEXT>Modjeska D <i>The Orchard</i> Macmillan
<ATEXT>Poetry anthology available from the department
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
</SUBJECT>
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<SUBJECT ID="106-104" CODEUSED="106-104">
<TITLE>WOMEN'S WRITING, WOMEN'S LIVES</TITLE>
<POINTS>12.5
<COORDINATOR>Stephanie Trigg.
<SEMESTER>First semester.
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial each week
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully:
<ul>
<li>will be familiar with some major developments in women's fiction, poetry, autobiography and theory in English in the twentieth century;
<li>will understand the role of women writers in interpreting and redefining social structures;
<li>will be familiar with some of the linguistic and generic strategies of women's writing and feminist criticism;
<li>will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing and presentation of written work;
<li>will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied; and
<li>will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject explores some aspects of twentieth-century women's fiction, autobiography and poetry. It is interested in the connections between changes in women's social positions and the new forms of writing that they developed both to express and achieve those changes. It is concerned with the development of the figure of the woman writer, and with questions of sexual and cultural identity.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Adams B and Tate T eds <i>That Kind of Woman</i> Virago
<ATEXT>Frame J <i>To the Is-Land</i> Paladin
<ATEXT>Winterson J <i>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</i> Vintage
<ATEXT>Hewett D <i>Wild Card</i> McPhee Gribble
<ATEXT>Jolley E <i>The Georges' Wife</i> Penguin
<ATEXT>Huggins R and Huggins J <i>Auntie Rita</i> Aboriginal Studies Press
<ATEXT>Modjeska D <i>The Orchard</i> Macmillan
<ATEXT>Poetry anthology available from the department
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
</SUBJECT>
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