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106-281/381 "'Character' and the Novel" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-290 | Prev:106-275
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Robin Grove.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will have:
- gained a knowledge of the historical context of the nineteenth-century novel genre and its immediate descendants;
- developed skills of analysis and imagination in reading that genre;
- become familiar with the intellectual and social pressures which helped to promote concepts of 'character' as central to the English novel.
Content:
This subject investigates some ideas of self and self-presentation in nineteenth-century English novels, focusing on questions of authority, wealth, gender and morality in the context of changing social practices and beliefs.
Assessment:
Coursework-based exercises (both critical and creative) not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-290 | Prev:106-275
2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-290 | Prev:106-275
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Robin Grove.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will have:
- gained a knowledge of the historical context of the nineteenth-century novel genre and its immediate descendants;
- developed skills of analysis and imagination in reading that genre; and
- become familiar with the intellectual and social pressures which helped to promote concepts of "character" as central to the English novel.
Content:
This subject investigates some ideas of self and self-presentation in nineteenth-century English novels, focusing on questions of authority, wealth, gender and morality in the context of changing social practices and beliefs.
Assessment:
Coursework-based exercises (both critical and creative) not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-290 | Prev:106-275
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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