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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

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

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Peter Steele

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

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. Students who complete this subject successfully will have a general knowledge of images of the city generated in the set texts and be able to discern the main stylistic elements in the writings.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5000 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 trans David West, The Aeneid, Penguin Classics.
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