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106-411 Contemporary Historical Fictions | |
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Note | Formerly available as 106-059. Students who have completed 106-059 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Clara Tuite |
Prerequisites | Usually admission to the postgraduate diploma or fouth year honours in English, see Honours entry. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject explores the relationship between fiction and history across a range of contemporary historical fictions. Formerly a predominantly realist genre which aimed at mimetic representation, historical fiction now locates itself primarily within the transformative modes of romance, allegory and magic realism. Students should develop a critical awareness of historical fiction as a specific literary genre, as we examine the distinctive forms and concerns of postmodern narrative in foregrounding the problems of retrieving and refiguring the past. Students will engage these fictions against a background of contemporary theorisations of the relationship between history and literary postmodernity. |
Assessment | An essay of 5000 words for 4th year students or 6000 words for masters students 100% (due at the end of semester). |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available.
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