AustLit
Texts
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Merchant Of Venice!$!Shakespeare, William!$!!$!Penguin!$!2005s
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Disgrace!$!Coetzee, J.M.!$!!$!Vintage!$!2000s
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Benang : From the Heart
Fremantle
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Fremantle Press
,
1999
Z135862
1999
single work
novel
(taught in 31 units)
'Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, Benang is a novel of celebration and lament, of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilised from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past.' (Publisher's website)
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Trial!$!Kafka!$!!$!Penguin!$!2000s
Degrees
Description
This unit focuses on the topic of law in/and literature, which it explores through a range of literary and filmic texts and through literary theory. Students will read a range of works with a legal inflection, and investigate them by applying concepts drawn from philosophy and literary theory, including judgment and genre. They will study novels, poetry, philosophy, and extracts from Hansard, judgments and other dicta with the aim of understanding how law and literature intertwine. Is it possible to write or to read outside generic and other social conventions?
Supplementary Texts
To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee, Harper: , Mandarin 1989.
Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life by Nussbaum, Martha C.: , Beacon Press 1997.
Other Details
Levels:
Undergraduate
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