AustLit
Texts
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Indelible Ink
Carlton North
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Scribe
,
2010
Z1679611
2010
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'Marie King is a 59-year-old divorcée from Sydney's affluent north shore. Having devoted her rather conventional life to looking after her husband and three children - who have now all departed the family home - she is experiencing something of an identity crisis, especially as she must now sell the family home and thus lose her beloved garden. On a folly she gets a tattoo.
'Marie forges a friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys, who introduces her to an alternative side of Sydney. Through their burgeoning connection, Marie's two worlds collide causing great friction within Marie's family and with her circle of rich friends.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Warra Warra : A Ghost Story
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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2003
Z1015731
2003
single work
novel
horror
(taught in 2 units)
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Praise
North Sydney
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Allen and Unwin
,
1992
Z563591
1992
single work
novel
(taught in 16 units)
'Praise is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australian of the 1990s. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when heroin was better known than ecstasy, and when ambition was the dirtiest of words. A time when, for two hopeless souls, sex and dependence were the only lifelines.' (from back cover)
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Trainspotting!$!Welsh, Irvine!$! !$!!$!
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Rings of Saturn!$!Sebald, Winfried Georg!$! !$!!$!
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One Hundred Years of Solitude!$!Marquez, Gabriel Garcia!$! !$!!$!
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Eva Luna!$!Allende, Isabel!$! !$!!$!
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If On A Winter's Night A Traveller!$!Clkavino, Italo!$! !$!!$!
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The Bone House
Artarmon
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Giramondo Publishing
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2005
Z1227831
2005
selected work
essay
(taught in 1 units)
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Child's Play
New York (City)
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Vintage
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1999
Z943097
1981
single work
novella
(taught in 5 units)
'In the streets of an ordinary Italian town, the people go about their everyday lives. In an old apartment block above them, a young man pores over photographs and plans, dedicated to his life's most important project. Day by day, in imagination, he is rehearsing for his greatest performance. Yet when his moment comes, nothing could have prepared him for what happens. . .' (Source: Publisher's website)
Degrees
Description
This unit introduces students to the rationale, principles and techniques of a selection of four major movements in contemporary prose (largely but not exclusively fiction), the particular movements in any one semester being dependent upon the expertise of the staff available. Sample components: the postmodern novel; ecritures feminines; magic realism; metafiction; contemporary realism; narrative non-fiction; ficto-criticism; the feminist detective; contemporary Australians; cyberfiction; life writing. Each movement is taught by way of two exemplary texts, one Australian and one drawn from other writing in the English language.
Assessment
1x4500wd essay (100%)
Other Details
Offered in:
2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Current Campus:
Camperdown/Darlington
Levels:
Postgraduate
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