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106-048 Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination | |
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Note | Formerly available as 106-272/372. Students who have completed 106-272 or 106-372 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Peter Steele |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites, or first year European studies, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Thirty hours of lectures and tutorials scheduled across the semester |
Subject Description | This subject explores the literature of travel, fictive and factual, with an emphasis on the 18th and 19th centuries. Students will encounter a variety of historical and imaginative texts which draw attention to the centrality of modes of travel to our recent colonial and global history. Students who complete this subject successfully should be familiar with a number of key works of travel writing; able to identify characteristic elements in these; able to understand analogies between literal and mental travel; able to compare and contrast individual works. |
Assessment | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
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