AustLit
Texts
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The Battler!$!Ernest Hemingway!$! !$!!$!
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The Man Who Got Fat!$!William Saroyan!$! !$!!$!
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Pat Hobby and Orson Welles!$!F. Scott Fitzgerald!$! !$!!$!
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Brimmer!$!John Cheever!$! !$!!$!
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Jimi Hendrix!$!Richard Willams!$! !$!!$!
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Los Angeles Notebook!$!Joan Didion!$! !$!!$!
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The Trans-Siberian, 1958!$!Ryszard Kapuscinski!$! !$!!$!
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Driving Around Houston!$!James Crumley!$! !$!!$!
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Lest We Forget, Baby 1994 single work short story (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 53 no. 2 1994; (p. 355-362) Nice Shootin', Cowboy : Stories 1997; (p. 87-105) -
Pimp Daddy's Local Member 1998 single work prose (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 1998 1998; (p. 14-22) The Best Australian Profiles 2004; (p. 155-164) -
Testimony of Pilot!$!Barry Hannah!$!!$!!$!s
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Down A Lonesome Road!$!Barry O'Connell!$!!$!!$!s
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Poison Pen!$!Christopher Hitchens!$!!$!!$!s
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The Kyogle Line 1985 single work prose (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: 12 Edmondstone Street 1985; (p. 123-134) Latitudes : New Writing from the North 1986; (p. 64-72) Coast to Coast : Recent Australian Prose Writing 1986; (p. 84-91) Displacements 2 : Multicultural Storytellers 1987; (p. 88-93) Neighbours : Multicultural Writing of the 1980s 1991; (p. 64-70) The Second Largest Island : Modern Australian Short Stories 1994; (p. 43-51)
— Appears in: ダイヤモンド・ドッグ : 《多文化を映す》現代オーストラリア短編小說集 2008; -
Modernity 1991 single work short story (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: Heroines : A Contemporary Anthology of Australian Women Writers 1991; (p. 155-164) The House of Breathing 1992; (p. 11-19) Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 1269-1275)
Degrees
Description
Assessment
Assignment 1 (8 x minor in class exercises) Total 40%
These eight exercises will be given out in weeks 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Students will be expected to write short pieces of 500 words on given topics to be handed back in the following weeks class. The topics will relate to the subject of that weeks discussion Each exercise will be worth 5% of the total mark.
Assignment 2 (Non-fiction assignment) Total 30%
In this assignment, students are required to write a coherent piece of creative non-fiction utilising one of the themes studied in the course, travel or biography. The assignment will assess your ability to write clear, concise and coherent prose. The assignment will be distributed in week 4 and will be due on Friday, 18 September, 2009. Word length: 1500 words
Assignment 3 (Short fiction assignment) 30%
In this assignment, students are required to write a coherent piece of short fiction. The fictions should engage with the themes addressed in the course, travel or biography. The assignment will assess your ability to write imaginative prose in an effective manner. The assignment will be distributed in week 8 and will be due on Friday, 23 October, 2009. Word length: 1500 words.