AustLit
Texts
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The Twyborn Affair
London
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Jonathan Cape
,
1979
Z448841
1979
single work
novel
(taught in 14 units)
'Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.' (From the publisher's website.)
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El Dorado
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2007
Z1362160
2007
single work
novel
crime
detective
thriller
(taught in 10 units)
'There is a serial killer stalking the streets of Melbourne. The victims are killed gently, lovingly, a gold mark traced on their forehead. This killer doesn't hate children. This killer believes in childhood innocence at any cost...El Dorado is the story of a friendship under siege, and the very long shadows that jealousy and betrayal can cast.' - back cover
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A Room of One's Own!$!Woolf, Virginia!$!Penguin!$!!$!
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The Collected Stories!$!Mansfield, Katherine!$!Penguin!$!!$!
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Half of a Yellow Sun!$!Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi!$!Harper Perennial!$!!$!
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The Collected Stories!$!Mansfield, Katherine!$! London!$!Penguin!$!2001
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The Line of Beauty!$!Hollinghurst, Alan!$! London!$!Picador!$!2004
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The Hours!$!Cunningham, Michael!$! London!$!Fourth Estate!$!2003
Degrees
Description
The course introduces students to key issues and debates in the study of literature. Currently, the course examines the topic of gender and writing, with a focus on contemporary issues such as sexual difference, the body and sexuality, cultural difference and identity, and modernity and postmodernity. Students read literary works of special interest, and works of theory and criticism.
Other Details
Offered in:
2009
Current Campus:
St Lucia
Levels:
Undergraduate
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