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Erasure!$!Percival L. Everett!$! New York!$!Faber and Faber!$!2004
Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary!$!!$! Oxford!$!OUP!$!
Great Expectations!$!Charles Dickens!$! London!$!Penguin!$!2002
Paradise Lost!$!John Milton!$! New York !$!W. W. Norton!$!2005
Odyssey!$!Homer!$! Oxford!$!OUP!$!1998
y separately published work icon The First Stone : Some Questions About Sex and Power Helen Garner , Chippendale : Picador , 1995 Z76144 1995 single work prose (taught in 6 units) When two female university students went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party by the head of their co-ed residential college, the shock of the accusations split the community. Helen Garner examines the issues of sex and power which surround this incident in a blend of reportage and personal experience. (Source: Trove)
Pygmalion!$!George Bernard Shaw!$! Camberwell, Vic.!$!Penguin!$!2010

Description

This course is designed to develop the critical thinking and writing skills needed to study English at university. We will read material from a range of written and audiovisual material. We will consider, in particular, the way that language and metaphor influences our understanding of the world.

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Levels: Undergraduate
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