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Van Toorn traces the development of European book culture and indigenous communication and writing in Australia.
A Difficult Young Man (1955) charts the complex personal relationships in an upper middle class Anglo-Australian family. (Source: Sydney University Press)
'With photographic precision, author Susan Midalia captures the fleeting beauty, light and darkness to be found in the ephemera of everyday life. From the silences between people and the...
The first of a series of studies of Australian book production and consumption. The work is organised into four sections: 'Publishing and Printing', 'Bookshops and Libraries' (including histories of...
'It is 1904. At the age of forty-two, the handsome and influential Australian George Morrison, Peking correspondent for The Times of London, is considered the most eligible Western bachelor in China...
Sue Abbey began working at University of Queensland Press (UQP) in 1981, training as an editor. From 1988-2002, she was Poetry Editor at the Press and as Senior Editor, Abbey managed the Black...
Abdel-Fatteh grew up in Melbourne where she attended a Roman Catholic primary school and the King Khalid Islamic College. She then studied arts/law at the University of Melbourne and worked as a...
Ian Abdulla's mother, Jemima Hunter, was from Raukkan (Port McLeay) and his father was an Afghan man from Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. He and his twin brother Rodney were born under a tree on the...
The course in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art has three main aims:* Provide students with basic geographical and historical frameworks for the study of indigenous visual arts in Australia and...
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit was established at the University of Queensland in 1984. Its objective is to become a centre of excellence and expert opinion on teaching,...
In this unit we focus on contemporary Aboriginal life in all its variety, but also look at the relationship between the pre-colonial past and the post-colonial present in the forging of Aboriginal...
In this subject we focus on contemporary Aboriginal life in all its variety, but also look at the relationship between the pre-colonial past and the post-colonial present in the forging of Aboriginal...
'This book tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians - those who lost most in our country's early colonial struggle for power. Surveying two centuries of...
Representations of Indigenous Australians are to be found within a broad range of texts produced by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The texts give us access to the shifting...
The unit looks at the experiences of Aboriginal people from Cook to the Reconciliation Movement. It will emphasise first contacts, dispossession and disempowerment; policies of dispersal, segregation...
Aboriginal Land, Law and Philosophy will provide students who have completed the first year introductory Australian Indigenous Studies 100-181 subject with a more detailed and complex understanding...
Aboriginal Land, Law and Philosophy will provide students who have completed the first year introductory Australian Indigenous Studies 100-181 subject with a more detailed and complex understanding...
Aboriginal Land, Law and Philosophy will provide students who have completed the first year introductory Australian Indigenous Studies 100-181 subject with a more detailed and complex understanding...
Aboriginal Land, Law and Philosophy will provide students who have completed the first year introductory Australian Indigenous Studies 100-181 subject with a more detailed and complex understanding...
This unit is the foundation unit in Aboriginal Studies. It aims at promoting, from an historical perspective, an understanding of the Aboriginal people of modern Australia. It focuses on a broad...
This unit is the foundation unit in Aboriginal Studies. It aims at promoting, from an historical perspective, an understanding of the Aboriginal people of modern Australia. It focuses on a broad...
This unit is the foundation unit in Aboriginal Studies. It aims at promoting, from an historical perspective, an understanding of the Aboriginal people of modern Australia. It focuses on a broad...
This unit investigates ecological explanations of cultural diversity, differing notions of sustainable development, and the ecological and spiritual interrelationship integral to Indigenous cultures...
This unit investigates ecological explanations of cultural diversity, differing notions of sustainable development, and the ecological and spiritual interrelationship integral to Indigenous cultures...
This unit investigates ecological explanations of cultural diversity, differing notions of sustainable development, and the ecological and spiritual interrelationship integral to Indigenous cultures...
Historical & contemporary issues identified as relevant by Aboriginal women today. Guest lectures by Aboriginal women contrasted with knowledge constructed by mainstream disciplines.
Historical & contemporary issues identified as relevant by Aboriginal women today. Guest lectures by Aboriginal women contrasted with knowledge constructed by mainstream disciplines.
Through lectures and tutorials presented by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous women, both students and lecturers explore historical and contemporary issues identified as relevant by Aboriginal women...
Through lectures and tutorials presented by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous women, both students and lecturers explore historical and contemporary issues identified as relevant by Aboriginal women...
Aboriginal Women and Coloniality is a multidisciplinary subject looking at the various roles Aboriginal women have played in Aboriginal and Settler society. It examines stereotypical representations...
Aboriginal Women and Coloniality is a multidisciplinary subject looking at the various roles Aboriginal women have played in Aboriginal and Settler society. It examines stereotypical representations...
Aboriginal Women and Coloniality is a multidisciplinary subject looking at the various roles Aboriginal women have played in Aboriginal and Settler society. It examines stereotypical representations...
This subject studies Aboriginal fiction, poetry and drama, as well as life stories and criticism, focusing on questions of reading positions (particularly for non-Aboriginal students) and...
This subject studies Aboriginal fiction, poetry and drama, as well as life stories and criticism, focusing on questions of reading positions (particularly for non-Aboriginal students) and...
This subject studies Aboriginal fiction, poetry and drama, as well as life stories and criticism, focusing on questions of reading positions (particularly for non-Aboriginal students) and...
This subject studies Aboriginal fiction, poetry and drama, as well as life stories and criticism, focusing on questions of reading positions (particularly for non-Aboriginal students) and...
The nature of history; Australia before colonisation; first encounters; the spread of the frontier; British occupation of the continent; changing ideologies, 1770s-1880s; legislated inferiority;...
The nature of history; Australia before colonisation; first encounters; the spread of the frontier; British occupation of the continent; changing ideologies, 1770s-1880s; legislated inferiority;...
The nature of "history"; Australia before colonisation; British occupation of the continent; changing ideologies, 1770s-1880s; social theory; accommodation and resistance; Indigenous employment;...
Course aimTo provide an understanding of the colonisation of Aboriginal Australia, the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and the effects of legislation relevant to Aboriginal...
'A psychological thriller, a desperately moving and ultimately uplifting tale of childhood innocence. . .
As small children, growing up at the property called Abyssinia, two...
'In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No...
This work is 'concerned with the personal dimensions of the reconciliation movement with a specific interest in the ways that testimony and memoir have become vehicles for the individual and personal...
Glenda Adams was born and educated in Sydney. She studied Indonesian and other languages at the University of Sydney and spent some time in Indonesia on a small scholarship before returning to Sydney...
Robert Adamson was born in Sydney, but often visited the Hawkesbury River district where his grandfather was a fisherman. Adamson spent much of his early life in corrective institutions, but it was...
Aravind Adiga was educated in Sydney (including a period at James Ruse Agricultural High School), New York and at Oxford University. According to Sanjukta Dasgupta, Adiga's parents relocated to...
Builds upon Creative Writing A by assisting students in the development of larger independent writing projects in a specific genre, which in any given year could be extended prose fiction;...
This module offers final year students the opportunity to do research-led writing based on Sydney topics and themes. Using a range of research techniques (archival research, interviews, digital...
This module offers final year students the opportunity to do research-led writing based on Sydney topics and themes. Using a range of research techniques (archival research, interviews, digital...
A practice-based course in fictocritical and cross-generic writing, this subject builds on foundations in the analysis and writing of literary and theoretical texts. Students will also have...
Allows students to undertake specialization in poetry or prose. Students will be able to concentrate on developing their poetic skills or narrative and descriptive techniques in order to produce a...
Allows students to undertake specialization in poetry or prose. Students will be able to concentrate on developing their poetic skills or narrative and descriptive techniques in order to produce a...
This course takes students on further explorations in their genre of specialization. Contemporary and postmodern formations will be examined to apprise students of new creative possibilities....
This subject emphasises narrative development, with close attention to the relationship between structure and content in traditional and experimental fiction. Craft skills appropriate to narrative...
This subject emphasises narrative development, with close attention to the relationship between structure and content in traditional and experimental fiction. Craft skills appropriate to narrative...
This subject emphasises narrative development, with close attention to the relationship between structure and content in traditional and experimental fiction. Craft skills appropriate to narrative...
This subject aims to develop skills in feature story writing for the print media by a comparative approach to the work of exemplary contemporary practice. The emphasis is on developing and improving...
This subject explores the creative and complex storytelling potential of the cinematic image. It examines the relationship between the eye of the camera and the written text and offers students an...
'Examines the current state of Australian literary studies.'
Based on the 1989 Newcastle earthquake.
Jordie Albiston is an award winning Melbourne-based poet. She studied flute at the Victorian College of the Arts and published her first collection of poetry in 1995. Albiston graduated with a PhD in...
Students examine the ways in which science fiction texts from the late 19th century to the present construct the relationship between humanity and its 'others', including extraterrestrials, robots,...
Pamela Allen studied Fine Art, followed by one year's training at Auckland Teachers College. She worked as an art teacher in secondary schools and began illustrating for other authors. After moving...
Alvin is an average man, except that women find him irresistible. The only woman that Alvin really wants is his platonic friend Tina, but he appears to feel no sexual desire for her. He follows her...
Chrissy Amphlett was an Australian musician, songwriter and actress. She was lead singer of the rock band 'Divinyls'.
Steven Amsterdam grew up on New York's Upper West Side. He has worked as a travel publisher and designer for Random House and, since his move to Australia, has worked in both psychiatric and...
'In prose that is both elegant and lyrical, David Malouf departs from the little-known facts of Ovid's exile beyond the pale of civilization to create a deeply moving novel of extraordinary beauty....
This subject is an introduction to the 'reading' and criticism of texts in various forms and media. Students will be introduced to the principles, processes and methodologies involved in the critical...
This subject is an introduction to the 'reading' and criticism of texts in various forms and media. Students will be introduced to the principles, processes and methodologies involved in the critical...
This subject is an introduction to the 'reading' and criticism of texts in various forms and media. Students will be introduced to the principles, processes and methodologies involved in the critical...
Chris Anastassiades is a dramatist and script-writer, with extensive experience in television script-writing, particularly comedy and children's television.
Anastassiades's earliest television...
In 1944 two Australian poets devised what has been called the twentieth century's greatest literary hoax. So many hoaxes have ensued in this country that they can be linked to the national psyche....
In 1944 two Australian poets devised what has been called the twentieth century's greatest literary hoax. So many hoaxes have ensued in this country that they can be linked to the national psyche....
Jessica Anderson was born in 1916 at Gayndah, Queensland. After the family moved to Brisbane, Queensland, in the 1920s for better educational opportunities, she attended Yeronga State School and...
We Can Be Heroes
'The chameleon of character invention, writer/performer Chris Lilley brings to life six vastly different characters, but they all have one thing in common - they will...
Anh Do is the son of Vietnamese refugees. In 1980, at the age of two, he arrived in Australia with his family by boat. Anh Do grew up in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta. He has worked as an actor,...
Inspired in part by Melbourne's 1988 Walsh Street murders, is a story about the battle between Melbourne's underworld and the police. The story tracks seventeen-year-old Joshua 'J' Cody, a troubled...
Comprises part of Southerly volume 64, number 1, 2004.
Another Country: Australian Literature ZHSS2133 Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) at UNSW 2011
Writing in Australia has always provided a compelling forum for social anxieties and ongoing crises in a fragile national identity. This unit explores the relation between Australian society and the...
Another Country: Australian Literature ZHSS2133 Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) at UNSW 2012
Writing in Australia has always provided a compelling forum for social anxieties and ongoing crises in a fragile national identity. This unit explores the relation between Australian society and the...
In this subject we take an anthropological view of contemporary Aboriginal life in all its variety, but we also look at the relationship between the pre-colonial past and the post-colonial present in...
This unit begins with a working model to deal with ways of relating theory to practice. It explores the principles of significant critical theories like poststructuralism, postmodernism,...
This unit begins with a working model to deal with ways of relating theory to practice. It explores the principles of significant critical theories like poststructuralism, postmodernism,...
This topic is designed around a weekly lecture and tutorial in which students will read andrespond to a variety of creative writing. The emphasis in this topic is on reading and respondingto...
'With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between...
John Arnold has lived in Melbourne for most of his life. He has worked as a librarian, bookseller and in various academic roles at the National Key Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University...
A raging fire spreading in the Australian bush cuts off the escape of a group of children and two old men entrusted with their care.
Bill Ashcroft teaches at the University of New South Wales.
Thea Astley was born in Brisbane and educated at the University of Queensland. She taught in schools until 1967, then Macquarie University between 1968-80. Her novels have attracted wide praise and a...
'"Most people call me Auntie Rita, whites as well as Aboriginal people. Auntie is a term of respect of our older women folk. You don't have to be blood-related or anything. Everyone is kin. That's a...
At the beginning of World War II, Lady Sarah Ashley travels from her home in England to Northern Australia to confront her husband, whom she believes is having an affair. He is in the country to...
Peter Allen assures us that 'I still call Australia home'. But what and where is home for Australians? The destination is not as simple as the song's popular sentiment would imply. Indeed the concept...
'Australia and Home' asks you to forget whatever you thought you knew about Australia and begin the process again. The starting point is in Australias unique writing and films. Is Australia a '...
Australians have variously been described as a nation of sporting champions, yet we lose more often than we win; of 'battling' when we live in relative wealth; and of settling in the 'outback' while...
Australians have variously been described as a nation of sporting champions, yet we lose more often than we win; of battling when we live in relative wealth; and of settling in the outback while we...
This subject examines dominant narratives of the Australian nation and texts that challenge these narratives, especially in relation to the multiple ways that the term 'fair' is represented. It takes...
This subject examines dominant narratives of the Australian nation and texts that challenge these narratives, especially in relation to the multiple ways that the term 'fair' is represented. It takes...
Australian literature and cinema which dramatises questions of gender, sexuality, race, class, multiculturalism, and history; identity and subjectivity in Australian literature and cinema -...
A study of trends in Australian theatre over two centuries and the influences on performance styles in Australian theatre.
In this unit students study two key regions of Australia's colonial past - New South Wales and/or Tasmania, the cradle of white settlement and the Northern Territory, Australia's last frontier - to...
This unit will consider relations between indigenous and non-Aboriginal people in Australia since 1770. The main topics will include the legal basis of British sovereignty; the nature of frontier...
In this subject students study two key regions of Australia's colonial past - New South Wales and/or Tasmania, the cradle of white settlement and the Northern Territory, Australia's last frontier -...
In this subject students study two key regions of Australia's colonial past - New South Wales and/or Tasmania, the cradle of white settlement and the Northern Territory, Australia's last frontier -...
This course will introduce students to the broad outlines of the development and practice of Australian and New Zealand theatre through a study of some key texts. It looks not only at the styles and...
Many of the major achievements in Australian Literature since the 1950's have been autobiographies, but only within the last decade has much attention been given to the form. As a literary form,...
Identifies six different types of Australian autobiography.
The Brisbane Campus (McAuley at Banyo) hosts more than 2,400 students, including over 400 international students.
This unit introduces students to a range of Australian literature written for children and young adults, including picture books for older readers. Its primary focus is on exploring the cultural...
This unit will examine both historical and contemporary Australian films. Students will consider the means by which cinema is an expression of Australian history and culture, as well as how film...
Traces the emergence and significance of Australian screen cultures. Studies the development of the Australian film industry, including analysis of the economic, social and political factors and the...
This course traces the emergence and significance of Australian screen cultures. Studies the development of the Australian film industry, including analysis of the economic, social and political...
This course traces the emergence and significance of Australian screen cultures. Studies the development of the Australian film industry, including analysis of the economic, social and political...
This course traces the emergence and significance of Australian screen cultures. Studies the development of the Australian film industry, including analysis of the economic, social and political...
This course analyses some key examples of Australian literature and film that have come to be regarded as 'classics'. The course sets literature and film in its original context, examining the social...
In this subject, students analyse recent trends in, and critical perspectives on, contemporary Australian children's and young adult (YA) literature including print and non-print texts. Elements of...
Contemporary Australian scripts and productions through the study of authors: David Allen, Roxxy Bent, Alex Buzo, Jimmy Chi, Timothy Daly, Alma de Groen, Colin Free, Colin Gilbert, Jack Hibbard, Eva...
Contemporary Australian scripts and productions through the study of authors: David Allen, Roxxy Bent, Alex Buzo, Jimmy Chi, Timothy Daly, Alma de Groen, Colin Free, Colin Gilbert, Jack Hibbard, Eva...
Contemporary Australian scripts and productions through the study of authors: David Allen, Roxxy Bent, Alex Buzo, Jimmy Chi, Timothy Daly, Alma de Groen, Colin Free, Colin Gilbert, Jack Hibbard, Eva...
Course aimTo acquaint students with the techniques, themes, influences and substance of Australian plays and productions as realised by contemporary playwrights and directors.Course contentDavid...
This course examines a range of Australian literary, theatrical and cinematic crime narratives from the 19th century to the present. It explores Australian literary, stage and screen history through...
This unit introduces students to the disciplinary, historical and thematic features of the field known as Australian Cultural Studies. The unit takes as its focus constructions of Australianness...
Located in the national capital, The Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in Canberra is a centre for higher education for the Australian Defence Force.Within the Academy, The University of New...
In this unit students explore significant examples of Australian plays which have emerged since the 1950s and which have contributed to the ongoing progress of an Australian national drama. The unit...
This course is structured to survey the multi-faceted nature and the development of Australian drama and theatre since the beginning of white settlement. Historically, the course will focus on the...
This course is structured to survey the multi-faceted nature and the development of Australian drama and theatre since the beginning of white settlement. Historically, the course will focus on the...
This unit will examine a range of Australian playwrights to understand their particular social and cultural preoccupations in regard to the dramatic style they employ and its execution in performance.
This course traces the development of a distinctive Australian voice in theatre and drama from its origins in late C19th melodrama to the present. Theatre topics covered include a survey of...
This is a study of the development of Australian drama and theatre over the last 50 years, in the context of past and current policy and practice in the professional theatre. Students are engaged...
This is a study of the development of Australian drama and theatre over the last 50 years, in the context of past and current policy and practice in the professional theatre. Students are engaged...
This is a study of the development of Australian drama and theatre over the last 50 years, in the context of past and current policy and practice in the professional theatre. Students are engaged...
This is a study of the development of Australian drama and theatre over the last 50 years, in the context of past and current policy and practice in the professional theatre. Students are engaged...
This subject combines the in-depth study of Australian literature with the practice of literature. It examines key tropes in Australian fiction over the past 100 years with particular emphasis on '...
This subject combines the in-depth study of Australian literature with the practice of literature. It examines key tropes in Australian fiction over the past 100 years with particular emphasis on '...
The exploration and settlement of new lands inspire exciting and moving narratives that develop into a national literature, cross-culturally spanning indigenous and settler writing. Students...
Module outlineThis module gives you an overview of feature film-making in Australia, from its advent and success in the silent era to global mega-products of recent years. One film is screened before...
RationaleSince the 70s, the output of the Australian film industry has been prolific and exciting. This unit examines a number of key films, bearing witness to the energy, creativity and particular...
RationaleSince the 70s, the output of the Australian film industry has been prolific and exciting. This unit examines a number of key films, bearing witness to the energy, creativity and particular...
Module outlineThis module gives you an overview of feature film-making in Australia, from its advent and success in the silent era to global mega-products of recent years. One film is screened before...
Australian literature and cinema which dramatises questions of diaspora, gender, sexuality, race, class, multiculturalism, and history; identity and subjectivity in Australian literature and cinema...
Australian literature and cinema which dramatises questions of diaspora, gender, sexuality, race, class, multiculturalism, and history; identity and subjectivity in Australian literature and cinema...
Australian literature and cinema which dramatises questions of gender, sexuality, race, class, multiculturalism, and history; identity and subjectivity in Australian literature and cinema -...
This unit includes the following: study of Australian film and television productions within their cultural and institutional contexts; issues facing the film and television industry today; the...
Australian film and television is internationally renowned as a diverse, creative and culturally unique national screen industry. Increasingly integrated into a global production system, the local...
This unit will enable students to critically evaluate the notion of nationalism as it emerges in Australian Film. Initially, the course will explore traditional theoretical constructions of...
This unit will enable students to critically evaluate the notion of nationalism as it emerges in Australian Film. Initially, the course will explore traditional theoretical constructions of...
The unit will provide a map of the local and international flows of Australian film theory and criticism. By tracing key critical positions, personnel and institutions this unit will provide an...
This course spans the development of Australian film from its early achievements before 1920 to its internationalisation circa 1980 and beyond. Its primary focus is the cultural study of Australian...
The unit will cover the following general topics, with both some theory and also analysis of the field as it may apply to Australia: folk and lore; folk and the past; Australian folk speech; customs...
The unit will cover the following general topics, with both some theory and also analysis of the field as it may apply to Australia: folk and lore; folk and the past; Australian folk speech; customs...
The unit will cover the following general topics, with both some theory and also analysis of the field as it may apply to Australia: folk and lore; folk and the past; Australian folk speech; customs...
From the earliest days of European colonisation, alongside visions of its promise Australia has also been seen as the worst of all possible worlds, a hellish place of exile where nature seemed...
From the earliest days of European colonisation, alongside visions of its promise Australia has also been seen as the worst of all possible worlds, a hellish place of exile where nature seemed...
RationaleThe appropriate content of Australian history courses is openly debated. Even the nation called Australia is problematic as competing identities, discourses, conceptualisations and nations-...
RationaleThe appropriate content of Australian history courses is openly debated. Even the nation called Australia is problematic as competing identities, discourses, conceptualisations and nations-...
Rationale The appropriate content of Australian history courses is openly debated. Even the nation called Australia is problematic as competing identities, discourses, conceptualisations and nations...
Introduces students to the study of nineteenth and twentieth century Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, the growth of self-...
Introduces students to the study of nineteenth and twentieth century Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, the growth of self-...
Introduces students to the study of Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, and the growth of self-government. Emphasis is placed...
Introduces students to the study of Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, and the growth of self-government. Emphasis is placed...
Introduces students to the study of Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, and the growth of self-government. Emphasis is placed...
The unit aims to provide US Study Abroad students with a substantial overview of Australian history and an analysis of the evolution of contemporary Australian society. It covers major themes and...
What symbols and landmarks identify and embody Australia? How have Uluru and the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Barrier Reef, Anzac and vegemite evolved as cultural icons and what do they tell...
What symbols and landmarks identify and embody Australia? How have Uluru and the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Barrier Reef, Anzac and vegemite evolved as cultural icons and what do they tell...
Australian Indigenous Literature takes the scholar on a journey of listening to and reflecting upon Indigenous voices in a variety of texts, including poetry, theatre, autobiography, early writings...
Australian Indigenous Literature takes the scholar on a journey of listening to and reflecting upon Indigenous voices in a variety of texts, including poetry, theatre, autobiography, early writings...
This unit promotes awareness of aspects of cultural difference, diversity and complexity amongst traditionally oriented Indigenous societies in Australia and considers the continuing effects of...
This advanced unit gives students the opportunity to study a selection of key Australian texts in detail and to develop an informed perspective on a current issue in Australian literary studies...
A detailed study of selected poetry, prose and drama focusing on a range of Australian social, historical and cultural issues. The subject examines how Australian writers and writing have...
This subject presents a study of the distinctive works of the Australian literary imagination. It focuses on the characteristic features of Australian literature and the question of how to define it...
This unit introduces students to a range of Australian fiction, poetry and drama. A detailed understanding of writing genres and forms, and of Australian literary history, will entail readings of...
This course introduces students to major issues and works in Australian literature, with a particular focus on material from the past two centuries. It will contextualise important works in terms of...
This subject provides a survey of the development of Australian literature up to the 1970s through a study of significant novels, short stories and poetry. From the entries of the diaries of Captain...
A detailed study of selected poetry, prose and drama focusing on a range of Australian social, historical and cultural issues. The subject examines how Australian writers and writing have...
This subject presents a study of the distinctive works of the Australian literary imagination. It focuses on the characteristic features of Australian literature and the question of how to define it...
This unit explores the relation between literature and Australian society in the 20th century. Literature is broadly conceived, as social critique or social settlement, with a focus on the questions...
This course introduces students to major issues and works in Australian literature, with a particular focus on material from the past two centuries. It will contextualise important works in terms of...
This subject provides a survey of the development of Australian literature up to the 1970s through a study of significant novels, short stories and poetry. From the entries of the diaries of Captain...
This subject presents a study of the distinctive works of the Australian literary imagination. It focuses on the characteristic features of Australian literature and the question of how to define it...
This unit explores the relation between literature and Australian society in the 20th century. Literature is broadly conceived, as social critique or social settlement, with a focus on the questions...
A detailed study of selected poetry, prose and drama focusing on a range of Australian social, historical and cultural issues. The subject examines how Australian writers and writing have...
This course introduces students to major issues and works in Australian literature, with a particular focus on material from the past two centuries. It will contextualise important works in terms of...
This unit explores the relation between literature and Australian society in the 20th century. Literature is broadly conceived, as social critique or social settlement, with a focus on the questions...
This subject provides a survey of the development of Australian literature up to the 1970s through a study of significant novels, short stories and poetry. From the entries of the diaries of Captain...
This subject presents a study of the distinctive works of the Australian literary imagination. It focuses on the characteristic features of Australian literature and the question of how to define it...
A detailed study of selected poetry, prose and drama focusing on a range of Australian social, historical and cultural issues. The subject examines how Australian writers and writing have...
This unit introduces students to a range of Australian fiction, poetry and drama. A detailed understanding of writing genres and forms, and of Australian literary history, will entail readings of...
This subject provides a survey of the development of Australian literature up to the 1970s through a study of significant novels, short stories and poetry. From the entries of the diaries of Captain...
This subject provides a survey of the development of Australian literature up to the 1970s through a study of significant novels, short stories and poetry. From the entries of the diaries of Captain...
This subject provides a survey of the development of Australian literature up to the 1970s through a study of significant novels, short stories and poetry. From the entries of the diaries of Captain...
This subject provides a survey of the development of Australian literature up to the 1970s through a study of significant novels, short stories and poetry. From the entries of the diaries of Captain...
This subject provides a survey of the development of Australian literature up to the 1970s through a study of significant novels, short stories and poetry. From the entries of the diaries of Captain...
This unit aims to introduce some of the key writers of this period. It will also encourage students to develop reading skills appropriate to different genres and to acquire an awareness of the issues...
This unit of study aims to introduce some of the key writers of this period. It will also encourage students to develop reading skills appropriate to different genres and to acquire an awareness of...
This unit will introduce students to some major Australian texts and writers of the last two decades. While its main focus will be on fiction, poetry and non-fiction, there will also be an emphasis...
This unit will introduce students to some major Australian texts and writers of the last two decades. While its main focus will be on fiction, poetry and non-fiction, there will also be an emphasis...
This unit will introduce students to some major Australian texts and writers of the last two decades. While its main focus will be on fiction, poetry and non-fiction, there will also be an emphasis...
This unit is designed to increase students' understanding of Australian literature and film, of Australian literary tradition, and of the process of generic classification. The unit includes the...
This unit will develop critical approaches to literature and film by a comparative discussion of films and the Australian literary texts from which they derive. The two modes will be compared for...
This unit uses postcolonial approaches to trace the development of Australian literature from its colonial beginnings to the present day. A wide variety of texts will be introduced -- books, extracts...
Module outlineThe module introduces students to a range of texts drawn from Australian literature and film to afford insight into the conflicts and transformations that energise contemporary...
This unit uses postcolonial approaches to trace the development of Australian literature from its colonial beginnings to the present day. A wide variety of texts will be introduced -- books, extracts...
Module outlineThe module introduces students to a range of texts drawn from Australian literature and film to afford insight into the conflicts and transformations that energise contemporary...
Module description:The module introduces students to a range of highly enjoyable and stimulating texts drawn from Australian literature and film to afford insight into the conflicts and...
This course examines a selection of Australian novels, short stories and poems from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s in their gendered, social, political, and intellectual contexts.
This course examines a selection of Australian novels, short stories and poems from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s in their gendered, social, political, and intellectual contexts.
This course examines a selection of Australian novels, short stories and poems from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s in their gendered, social, political, and intellectual contexts.
This course examines the way the past figures in recent Australian literature, including poetry, short stories, novels and memoir. It explores the relations of memory and narrative, and memory and...
Embark on a fascinating study of Australian writing from the late 19th and early 20th century. In this unit you read a selection of poetry, a novel and a selection of short stories. Throughout the...
Embark on a fascinating study of Australian writing from the late 19th and early 20th century. In this unit you read a selection of poetry, a novel and a selection of short stories. Throughout the...
Continue your exploration of Australian writing, this time between 1930 and 1960 in the context of the three great national crises of those years: The Great Depression; The Second World War; and The...
Continue your exploration of Australian writing, this time between 1930 and 1960 in the context of the three great national crises of those years: The Great Depression; The Second World War; and The...
This unit explores the distinctive qualities of contemporary Australian literature with particular reference to poetry, short stories, novels and plays published in the last twenty years or so. It...
A focus on exciting and innovative developments in Australian fiction, poetry and drama since is a feature of this unit. Astudy is made of the movement away from the intense nationalism and the...
A focus on exciting and innovative developments in Australian fiction, poetry and drama since is a feature of this unit. Astudy is made of the movement away from the intense nationalism and the...
A focus on exciting and innovative developments in Australian fiction, poetry and drama since is a feature of this unit. Astudy is made of the movement away from the intense nationalism and the...
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of: 1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff 2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester...
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of: 1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff 2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester...
A study of some of the great French and German poems of the late nineteenth century (in translation) and their key role in the development of Australian Poetry from 1900 to the present.
A study of the poetics and key poetry of the 'Symboliste' movement and its role in the development of Australian poetry from 1900 to the present day.
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of: 1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff 2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester...
This seminar examines a range of true fictions about the past that circulate in the public domain as literature. Students will read a diverse array of historical fictions in the light of ideas drawn...
This seminar examines a range of true fictions about the past that circulate in the public domain as literature. Students will read a diverse array of historical fictions in the light of ideas drawn...
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of: 1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff 2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester...
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of: 1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff 2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester...
This seminar examines a range of Australian novels that have achieved the status of 'classics'. It will examine the background of historical debates about the emergence of a distinctive Australian...
This unit of study introduces some complex, (largely) contemporary, Australian texts that deal in various ways with traumatic journeys through physical and psychological landscapes towards a sense of...
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of: 1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff 2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester...
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of: 1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff 2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester...
This seminar examines a range of Australian texts in the light of postmodern theory and questions. Among the issues to be explored are: unwriting meta-narratives; writing and/as re-writing; the death...
This seminar examines a range of Australian texts in the light of postmodern questions. Among the issues to be explored are: unwriting meta-narratives; writing and/as re-writing; the death of the...
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of: 1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff 2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester...
This seminar aims to prepare students for the Honours year in Australian Literature through a study of current issues and approaches in research and criticism.
This seminar aims to prepare students for the Honours year in Australian Literature through a study of current issues and approaches in research and criticism.
This online unit guides students through the period of modern Australian Literature from 1930 to the present, exploring its predominant ideas and forms and the ways in which writers have responded to...
This online unit guides students through the period of modern Australian Literature from 1930 to the present, exploring its predominant ideas and forms and the ways in which writers have responded to...
This online unit guides students through the period of modern Australian Literature from 1930 to the present, exploring its predominant ideas and forms and the ways in which writers have responded to...
This unit is an examination of Australias national literature in its historical and cultural context. It provides a broad coverage of Australian literature from the early nineteenth century to the...
This unit is an examination of Australias national literature in its historical and cultural context. It provides a broad coverage of Australian literature from the early nineteenth century to the...
This unit examines Australias national literature in its historical and cultural context. It provides a broad coverage of Australian literature from the early nineteenth century to the present and...
A study of modern Australian literature with special reference to writings by Indigenous authors. This unit focuses on both White and Black Australian literatures as translations of the physical...
A study of modern Australian literature with special reference to writings by Indigenous authors. This unit focuses on both White and Black Australian literatures as translations of the physical...
A study of modern Australian literature with special reference to writings by Indigenous authors. This unit focuses on both White and Black Australian literatures as translations of the physical...
Outcomes: Students are able to read and critique a range of contemporary Australian narratives, filmic and written; gain knowledge of the connections and differences between book and film narrative;...
This course examines the range of Australian writing, selected from the traditional genres of poetry and the novel, autobiographical writing, and writing for the stage, television and cinema. In a...
The course examines twentieth-century Australian literature. Students read a selection of significant Australian literary texts, and discuss the literary, political, critical, and theoretical...
The course examines Australian literature. Students read a selection of significant Australian literary texts from different genres, and discuss the literary, political, critical, and theoretical...
The course examines Australian literature. Students read a selection of significant Australian literary texts from different genres, and discuss the literary, political, critical, and theoretical...
The course examines Australian literature. Students read a selection of significant Australian literary texts from different genres, and discuss the literary, political, critical, and theoretical...
Explores the construction of masculinities through the study of a range of Australian texts. Beginning with an examination of key theoretical readings in the area of gender, sex and masculinity, the...
By 1900 Australia was one of the most urbanised countries in the world and embraced modern life - city living, new technologies, the mass media - with a passion second only to that of the USA....
A study of the rise of modernism in Australian narrative literature, including prose, drama and poetry. The emphasis is on hybrid fictional texts that exemplify realist-modernist characteristics....
Convict and colonial times; Williamsons and other commercial theatre activities; the Tivoli circuit and vaudeville; radio drama; amateur theatres and little theatres; government subsidy and State...
Convict and colonial times; Williamsons and other commercial theatre activities; the Tivoli circuit and vaudeville; radio drama; amateur theatres and little theatres; government subsidy and State...
Convict and colonial times; Williamsons and other commercial theatre activities; the Tivoli circuit and vaudeville; radio drama; amateur theatres and little theatres; government subsidy and State...
Convict and colonial times; Williamsons and other commercial theatre activities; the Tivoli circuit and vaudeville; radio drama; amateur theatres and little theatres; government subsidy and State...
This unit explores the multiple ways in which Australia has been represented through cultural narratives. It focuses on three places in Australia, including Sydney, examining the different ways in...
This unit explores the multiple ways in which Australia has been represented through cultural narratives. It focuses on three places in Australia, including Sydney, examining the different ways in...
'Our vision is to establish a well-respected journal of modern Australian poetry that is utilised by poets, students of poetry and poetry enthusiasts alike. The journal will reflect current...
Examines the social meanings & historical formation of selected forms of popular culture in Australia from the early twentieth century to the present. Areas considered include television, popular...
Examines the social meanings & historical formation of selected forms of popular culture in Australia from the early twentieth century to the present. Areas considered include television, popular...
The course introduces students to Australian cultural studies through consideration of constructions of Australian national identity in a broad range of popular cultural forms such as popular...
Examines the social meanings & historical formation of selected forms of popular culture in Australia from the early twentieth century to the present. Areas considered include television, popular...
AUST2000 Australian Popular Culture explores various aspects of popular culture in Australia with particular emphasis on the period from the 1960s to the present. The course examines the production...
The course introduces students to Australian cultural studies through consideration of constructions of Australian national identity in a broad range of popular cultural forms such as popular...
In Prospect Bay, a remote fishing town in South Australian, the only thing that connects the two communities - the Goonyas (whites) and the Nungas (blacks) - is football. The underlying racism and...
Australian Screen addresses the wide-ranging output of Australian feature films and explores the varied approaches to studying Australian film as a national cinema. It does this through a program of...
Australian Screen addresses the wide-ranging output of Australian feature films and explores the varied approaches to studying Australian film as a national cinema. It does this through a program of...
Australian Screen addresses the wide-ranging output of Australian feature films and explores the varied approaches to studying Australian film as a national cinema. It does this through a program of...
Through the close analysis of selected Australian films, filmed plays and television productions, this subject examines the way that the various elements of medium, genre, structure and content are...
Through the close analysis of selected Australian films, filmed plays and television productions, this subject examines the way that the various elements of medium, genre, structure and content are...
Through the close analysis of selected Australian films, filmed plays and television productions, this subject examines the way that the various elements of medium, genre, structure and content are...
RationaleAustralians are hardly recognisable today against the Australia and Australians of 1945. In the last fifty years, numerous social, cultural and political ideas, policies and actions have...
Australians are hardly recognisable today against the Australia and Australians of 1945. In the last sixty-five years, numerous social, cultural and political ideas, policies and actions have shaped...
RationaleAustralians are hardly recognisable today against the Australia and Australians of 1945. In the last sixty-five years, numerous social, cultural and political ideas, policies and actions...
The significance of Aboriginal writing as an emergent genre over the last twenty years; Aboriginal representations of Australian society and race relations this century; non-Indigenous...
The significance of Aboriginal writing as an emergent genre over the last twenty years; Aboriginal representations of Australian society and race relations this century; non-Indigenous...
The significance of Aboriginal writing as an emergent genre over the last twenty years; Aboriginal representations of Australian society and race relations this century; non-Indigenous...
The significance of Aboriginal writing as an emergent genre over the last twenty years; Aboriginal representations of Australian society and race relations this century; non-Indigenous...
This subject involves working with selected contemporary Australian plays from the perspective of the actor, director, designer and spectator. Students analyse selected plays as potential performance...
A study of the development of Australian drama and film from 1788 to the present. It will examine selected plays and films within the context of: the history of theatrical and cinema performance; the...
A study of the development of Australian drama and film from 1788 to the present. It will examine selected plays and films within the context of: the history of theatrical and cinema performance; the...
Australian theatre and cinema have lively, at times intersecting, histories, and have played significant roles at both national and international levels, from the depiction of various local 'types'...
This course serves as an introduction to Australian narrative and the role it plays in the formation of cultural identities. It examines the heterogeneity of Australian culture through its stories...
This course serves as an introduction to Australian narrative and the role it plays in the formation of cultural identities. It examines the heterogeneity of Australian culture through its stories...
This course serves as an introduction to Australian narrative and the role it plays in the formation of cultural identities. It examines the heterogeneity of Australian culture through its stories...
This course serves as an introduction to Australian stories and the role they play in the formation of cultural identities. It examines the heterogeneity of Australian culture through its stories and...
This topic introduces students to an inter-disciplinary study of Australian society. It encourages the development and use of 'cultural mapping' skills, an awareness of the shaping forces of...
This topic introduces students to an inter-disciplinary study of Australian society. It encourages the development and use of 'cultural mapping' skills, an awareness of the shaping forces of...
This topic introduces students to the field of Australian Studies and the inter-disciplinary study of Australian society. It encourages an awareness of the forces that have shaped and are shaping...
This topic introduces students to some of the many aspects of contemporary Aboriginal and Islander visual arts and crafts within their historical and social contexts. The effect of non-Indigenous...
This subject introduces students to different perspectives on the meanings of 'Australia' and 'Australianess' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the way in which Australia,...
RationaleTelevision is a highly significant mass medium globally and a vital component within the Creative Industries, both as a shaper of and as an outlet for creativity. You need to have a critical...
Alan McKee examines some key moments in Australian television history, drawing on extensive contemporary evidence as well as presenting detailed analysis of the programs themselves.
Australian Texts and Traditions considers some of the major texts, authors and developments in Australian Literature over the last 150 years. It explores key themes in Australian literature including...
This unit explores how Australian authors write in, to and about the wider world. It will open up a range of questions: how international influences work in Australian writing; how Australian texts...
This unit explores how Australian authors write in, to and about the wider world. It will open up a range of questions: how international influences work in Australian writing; how Australian texts...
This unit explores how Australian authors write in, to and about the wider world. It will open up a range of questions: how international influences work in Australian writing; how Australian texts...
This unit explores how Australian authors write in, to and about the wider world. It will open up a range of questions: how international influences work in Australian writing; how Australian texts...
This unit explores how Australian authors write in, to and about the wider world. It will open up a range of questions: how international influences work in Australian writing; how Australian texts...
This unit explores how Australian authors write in, to and about the wider world. It will open up a range of questions: how international influences work in Australian writing; how Australian texts...
This unit introduces Honours English students to recent developments in literary studies, focusing on the history of the book and readership in Australia, publishing industry history, contemporary...
Honours study in English and Cultural Studies offers an advanced understanding of literature, writing and culture through sustained and close attention to particular texts, topics and critical and...
This unit aims to increase students' knowledge of the scope and variety of Australian writing. It examines a range of Australian texts from a number of contexts, usually organised along historical...
This unit aims to increase students' knowledge of the scope and variety of Australian writing. It examines a range of Australian texts from a number of contexts, usually organised along historical...
This unit aims to increase students' knowledge of the scope and variety of Australian writing. It examines a range of Australian texts from a number of contexts, usually organised along historical...
Selected plays from contemporary Australian theatre are studied with particular focus on cultural contexts. Special attention is paid to periods of intensive activity in playwriting.
Selected plays from contemporary Australian theatre are studied with particular focus on cultural contexts. Special attention is paid to periods of intensive activity in playwriting.
The course is really divided into two distinct areas, though there will be major areas of comparison. In studying Australian film, students will examine both historical and contemporary films with an...
The course is really divided into two distinct areas, though there will be major areas of comparison. In studying Australian film, students will examine both historical and contemporary films with an...
A study of trends in Australian theatre over two centuries and the influences on performance styles in Australian theatre. If studied in internal mode there are on average one hour of lectures and...
This unit of study will examine the nature of theatre and film in Australian cultural and educational settings. A particular focus will be placed on theatre and film for and by young people, and the...
This unit of study examines the nature of theatre and film in Australian cultural and educational settings. A particular focus will be placed on theatre and film for and by young people, and the...
This unit of study examines the nature of theatre and film in Australian cultural and educational settings. A particular focus will be placed on theatre and film for and by young people, and the...
Redirecting Australian cultural debated away from its traditional emphasis on 'The Bush', this course investigates how the fictionalised city has increasingly acted as a focus for cultural...
This unit examines the fictional texts of a number of 19th and 20th century women writers and film-makers and focuses particularly on representation of women's social and sexual identities, Included...
This unit examines the fictional texts of a number of 19th and 20th century women writers and film-makers and focuses particularly on representation of women's social and sexual identities, Included...
This unit explores the procedures and principles of writing for publication in such fields as creative writing, report writing, and promotion. The emphasis is on practical problems of research,...
This unit explores the procedures and principles of writing for publication in such fields as creative writing, report writing, and promotion. The emphasis is on practical problems of research,...
Introduces students to the study and practice of auto/biography. Will explore a range of texts of the genres and those contemporary theories of the subject which are so pertinent to the writing and...
People have written biographies and autobiographies for centuries, but only in recent years has the study of these forms become a major field of academic discussion and inquiry. The field opens up...
People have written biographies and autobiographies for centuries, but only in recent years has the study of these forms become a major field of academic discussion and inquiry. The field opens up...
People have written biographies and autobiographies for centuries, but only in recent years has the study of these forms become a major field of academic discussion and inquiry. The field opens up...
'Peta Tully has found her Mr Right. The only trouble is, she's not sure she's ready to settle down. Not just yet, anyway - so when she's offered a twelve-month contract interstate which just might...
Tony Ayres grew up in Western Australia. In addition to his prose writing and editing, he has extensive credits as a screen-writer and director. He wrote, directed and narrated China Dolls, an award-...
