AustLit
Texts
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Blind Faith!$!Ben Elton!$! London!$!Bantam!$!2007
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Life Studies!$!Robert Lowell!$! London!$!Faber!$!2001
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Birthday Letters!$!Ted Hughes!$! London!$!Faber!$!1998
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The Bell Jar!$!Sylvia Plath!$! London!$!Faber!$!1999
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y Family Album : A Novel of Secrets and Memories Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 2000 Z453650 2000 single work novel (taught in 1 units)
Description
Critics argued that Robert Lowells Life Studies set a precedent for confessional poetry in the mid twentieth-century. The unit analyses the nature of this precedent by investigating links with the lyric, Romanticism and Beat poetry. It examines the confessional impulse inspired by Lowell, chiefly through a study of the work of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Margaret Scott, and overviews confessional literature from Augustine to Ben Elton.Critics argued that Robert Lowells Life Studies set a precedent for confessional poetry in the mid twentieth-century. The unit analyses the nature of this precedent by investigating links with the lyric, Romanticism and Beat poetry. It examines the confessional impulse inspired by Lowell, chiefly through a study of the work of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Margaret Scott, and overviews confessional literature from Augustine to Ben Elton.
Assessment
3000 word-essay (60%), 2 hour exam (40%)
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Launceston
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