Twentieth-Century Australian Literature
The course examines twentieth-century Australian literature. Students read a selection of significant Australian literary texts, and discuss the literary, political, critical, and theoretical questions raised in these texts. The course focuses on Australian literature as a national literature that simultaneously develops and revises its literary traditions. Australian literature also responds to and revises traditions from other literatures, notably but not solely from Anglophone countries. What has preoccupied Australian literature? What has defined it? What dynamics are at work in it? Students gain an understanding of a lively national literature which looks within, questions, and debates its own history and place of origin, at the same time as it examines the relationship of Australia, and Australian literature, to the world.
Attendance
10%
Seminar paper
20%
Essay
40%
Final examination
30%
