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483-323 Language and Literature C21: Literary Theory

Note: Credit will not be granted for this subject, as well as for Language and Literature B21.

Credit points: 11.1

Coordinator: Ray Misson.

Prerequisite: 33.3 points in Group 2 Language and Literature subjects, including Language and Literature B1, or approved equivalent.

Contact: A 2-hour seminar session each week, except during block periods of School Experience.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• analyse the assumptions they make when reading and discussing texts;
• demonstrate an understanding of some of the major terms and issues underlying critical work on texts; and
• work with a number of the major current critical approaches.

Content:

An examination of some of the important theories on the nature of literature and how we read it, and of the assumptions underlying the practice of literary criticism in various modes.

Assessment:

Essays totalling approximately 3,500 words (100 per cent). Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made.

Prescribed texts:

• Eagleton T Literary Theory: An Introduction Blackwell Oxford 1983
• Misson R A Brief Introduction to Literary Theory VATC Melbourne 1995
• A collection of literary criticism for study will be made available
• Students may also be required occasionally to read literary works that are the subject of the criticism being studied

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