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106-242/342 Imagining the City: Dream, Fact and Style

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator: Peter Steele.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have a general knowledge of images of the city generated in the books set;
• be able to write lucidly on particular works;
• be able to discern the main stylistic elements in the writings.

Content:

This subject explores some of the ways in which life in cities has been envisaged in western literature, with attention to visionary and realistic elements and to the styles in which these are presented.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Calvino I Invisible Cities Paladin
• Dickens C Nicholas Nickleby Penguin
• James H The Bostonians Penguin
• Johnson S Selected Writings Penguin
• McCarthy M The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed Penguin
• Polo M The Travels of Marco Polo Penguin
• Shakespeare W Henry 1V 1 & 2 Penguin
• Swift J The Portable Swift Viking/Penguin
• Whitman W The Portable Walt Whitman Viking/Penguin
• Virgil The Aeneid trans David West Penguin Classics

1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-262 | Prev:106-240

2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-262 | Prev:106-240

106-242/342 Imagining the City: Dream, Fact and Style

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Peter Steele.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week

Timetable: Second semester.

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• have a general knowledge of images of the city generated in the books set;
• be able to write lucidly on particular works;
• be able to discern the main stylistic elements in the writings.

Content:

This subject explores some of the ways in which life in cities has been envisaged in western literature, with attention to visionary and realistic elements and to the styles in which these are presented.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Calvino I Invisible Cities Paladin
• Dickens C Nicholas Nickleby Penguin
• James H The Bostonians Penguin
• Johnson S Selected Writings Penguin
• McCarthy M The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed Penguin
• Polo M The Travels of Marco Polo Penguin
• Shakespeare W Henry 1V 1 & 2 Penguin
• Swift J The Portable Swift Viking/Penguin
• Whitman W The Portable Walt Whitman Viking/Penguin
• Virgil The Aeneid trans David West Penguin Classics

* Note that CONTACT, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.

2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-262 | Prev:106-240

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Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
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