Units teaching the same Authors
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Australian Catholic University - Strathfield Campus (Mount Saint Mary)
Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) at UNSW
Australian National University
Bond University
Campion College
Central Queensland University
Charles Darwin University
Charles Sturt University
Edith Cowan University
Griffith University
James Cook University
King's College London
La Trobe University
Macquarie University
Murdoch University
Open Universities Australia
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Texas Christian University
University of Canberra
University of Melbourne
University of New England
University of New South Wales
University of Newcastle
University of Notre Dame
University of Queensland
University of South Australia
University of Southern Queensland
University of Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney
University of the Sunshine Coast
University of Western Australia
Australian Literature: Traditions and Revisions
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 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. The diverse beginnings and trajectories of Australian literature are discussed.
Attendance - 10%
Short Essay - 30%
Long Essay - 40%
Final Examination - 10%
