Australian Literature Honours D: Australian Postmodernism
Institution:
University of Sydney
Coordinator:
Griffiths, Dr Huw
Code:
ASLT4014
Year:
2009
Levels:
Undergraduate - Honours 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 of the author/birth of the reader; alliances of textuality, truth and power; discursive (de)constructions of the subject; relations between postmodernism and modernism and between the postmodern and the postcolonial.
Texts:
Organisational Body:
Department of English Degrees:
Assessment:
Each semester option is assessed by a 4000 word essay.
Categories:
Unit Contexts: Australian Literary Studies
