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Offerings
MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-ONGOING
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Learning outcomes
1.
Discuss some of the arguments for upholding the idea of a canon of ‘great books’ in a literary tradition, and some of the ideas that question and disrupt this claim
2.
Trace the development of the novel between the 18th and early 20th centuries
3.
Have some grasp of the social and political contexts of the periods and their impact on the changing face of the novel
4.
Read, comment on and write about the selected texts using the language and conceptual tools of critical analysis
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Additional information
Unit content:This unit will cover the following topics:
• What is a ‘great book’?
• The genesis of the novel
• The eighteenth century novel
• The American Renaissance and the Gothic Romance
• The early twentieth century and Modernism
• Problematising the idea of the canon