AustLit
Texts
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Toy Symphony
2007
Strawberry Hills
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Currency Press
,
2008
Z1440999
2007
single work
drama
(taught in 4 units)
'Roland Henning has writer's block. When he tries to explain the situation to a therapist, his story begins to tumble back and forth between his childhood in The Shire and his work as a playwright. At the root of it all is that extraordinary day in primary school which shattered his boyhood and plunged him headlong into the dizzy circus of life and art.'
Source: Belvoir Street website, http://www.belvoir.com.au
Sighted: 05/11/2007 -
Mrs Dalloway!$!Woolf, V.!$! !$!!$!
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The Bell Jar and Selected Poems!$!Plath, S.!$! !$!!$!
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The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor!$!Lessings, S.!$! !$!!$!
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Human Traces and Engleby!$!Faulks, S.!$! !$!!$!
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Sydney
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Currency Press
Playbox Theatre
,
2002
Z980470
2002
single work
drama
(taught in 1 units)
'As Richard Mahony struggles with survival, identity and sanity, with one foot in the old country and a toe-hold in the new, his life gallops alongside the great events of the nineteenth century. Written with enormous emotional power, this is the spiralling story of a nation’s turbulent adolescence.' (Publisher's abstract.)
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The Hours!$!Cunningham, M.!$! !$!!$!
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Touched with Fire!$!Jamison, K.R.!$! !$!!$!
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'Minds, Madness and Literature' explores literary responses to the questions of 'What is the mind, what is madness, and what is the relationship between creativity and mental health?' Once considered the seat of the soul, the human mind has been rendered a scientific captive in recent history. Literature offers one form of testimonial response or 'protest' to this, and is perhaps a site of illumination whereby we can make better sense of contemporary existence, and the connections between creativity and wellbeing. The writers and texts on this course explore, for example, the science of the brain as well metaphysical explanations of madness, and consider how various theological, theoretical, philosophical, sociological and scientific theories have shaped and reshaped our understanding and experience of madness, and what it is to be human.
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