Ideas of Authorship

Institution: 
University of Tasmania
Coordinator: 
Shaw, Dr Narelle
Code: 
HEA333
Year: 
2009
Levels: 
Undergraduate

Examines how contemporary authors conceive of literature's relations to life and literary theory. Aims to provide students with a critical understanding of selected classical theory (inspiration and imitation) and twentieth-century theory (primarily structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism) and how these inform the literary texts.

Non-Austlit Texts: 

John Fowles. The French Lieutenant's Woman. Penguin, 1969

Roland Barthes. The Death of the Author. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977

David Lodge. Author, Author. Penguin, 2005

Assessment: 

3,500-word essay (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)

Additional Information
Campus: 
Launceston, Distance
Offering: 
Semester 2