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106-048 Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination | |
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Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
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 | A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
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; and able to compare and contrast individual works. |
Assessment | An essay of 4000 words 100% (due at the end of the semester). |
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