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 106-054 Australian Literature

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

To be advised

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

Subject Description

This subject introduces students to key nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts in Australian literature, focusing on the changing cultural meanings such texts secure in relation to issues of identity. Reading across Australia's literary history, this subject contextualises a number of significant concepts in contemporary Australian culture: the nation, the family, the citizen. Reading historic and contemporary texts, students will analyse literary representations of Australian identities.

Assessment

An essay of 1500 words and an essay of 2500 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • B Baynton, Bush Studies. Angus and Robertson.
  • P Carey, Oscar and Lucinda. University of Queensland Press.
  • R Cappello, Oh Lucky Country. University of Queensland Press.
  • F Moorhouse, The Electrial Experience: A Discontinuous Narrative. Angus and Robertson.
  • K Prichard, Coonardoo. Angus and Robertson.
  • J Tranter and P Mead eds, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry. Penguin.
  • P White, The Tree of Man. Penguin.
  • E Willmot, Pemulwuy: The Rainbow Warrior. Weldons.
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