AustLit
Texts
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Ransom
North Sydney
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Knopf Australia
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2009
Z1529380
2009
single work
novel
(taught in 20 units)
'With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf revisits Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride, grief, brutality, love and neighbourliness are explored.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Mrs Dalloway!$!Woolf!$! !$!!$!
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As I Lay Dying!$!William Faulkner!$! !$!!$!
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Ethan Frome!$!Wharton Edith!$! !$!!$!
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Midnight's Children!$!Rushdie!$! !$!!$!
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1984!$!Orwell!$! !$!!$!
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Ballad Of The Sad Cafe!$!Mccullers!$! !$!!$!
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Body Artist!$!Delillo!$! !$!!$!
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The Quiet American!$!Graham Greene!$! !$!!$!
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Heart of Darkness!$!Conrad!$! !$!!$!
Description
This unit is a general introduction to the study of the novel as a dominant (post)modern literary form and to theoretical approaches to the novel. Through a close reading of a diverse and challenging range of literary texts, we will identify the conventions that characterize the novelistic genre, situating them in their specific literary contexts and their broader historical, social, and political dimensions.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the unit students will: demonstrate in written and oral forms ability to critically and creatively analyse the formal, historical and aesthetic qualities of the studied novels; demonstrate orally and in writing a creative and critical understanding of theories of the novel.
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