AustLit
Texts
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Stasiland
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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2002
Z1001793
2002
single work
non-fiction
(taught in 5 units)
— Appears in: Reader's Digest Encounters : Real Life Reading 2006; (p. 9-174)To write this non-fiction work about life in the former East Germany, Anna Funder interviewed former Stasi officers and the people they surveilled. Described in the National Library of Australia record as 'A book of travel, history and biography that reads like a documentary novel,' Stasiland takes 'a deliberately subjective and "literary" approach' to its material with an 'emphasis on a sympathetic authorial persona as the source of the reader's perspective' (Susan Lever 'The Crimes of the Past: Anna Funder's Stasiland and Helen Garner's Joe Cinque's Consolation'. Paper delivered at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) conference 2006).
Degrees
Description
This is a unit of interrelated reading and writing. Students will lay the basis of good editorial and writing practice. Computer, language and research skills are developed to underpin work in scriptwriting, non-fiction and fiction. Set texts are used to demonstrate basic expository and narrative techniques.
Assessment
Creative writing assignment 1- 1500 words: 35%,
Creative writing assignment 2 - 1500 words: 35%,
In-class test (grammar & usage): 20%,
Participation in class workshop: 10%
Other Details
Offered in:
2011, 2010
Current Campus:
Burwood (Melbourne), Geelong
Levels:
Undergraduate
