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

Note

Available as 106-342 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Peter Steele

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.
  • 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 IV 1 & 2. Penguin.
  • Swift J, Gulliver's Travels. Viking/Penguin.
  • Whitman W, The Portable Walt Whitman. Viking/Penguin.
  • Virgil trans David West, The Aeneid. Penguin Classics.
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