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Offerings
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING
Requisites
Prerequisite
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
1.
Discuss developments in literary form and theory in the late 20th and early 21st century.
2.
Trace the development of the novel in the above period.
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.
5.
Discuss the role and relevance of the book in contemporary global culture.
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Additional information
Unit content:The unit will examine great texts, including the following: a modernist text, a post-colonal text, a post-modernist text and a contemporary Australian text. These texts are chosen as an extension on the ‘caninical’ texts selected in Great Books 1; they also will be chosen to be complementary to texts chosen in our other undergraduate units.
The unit will discuss concepts of narrative, form and genre, as well as the way literature intervenes in contemporary cultural questions of politics, identity, technology and ethics.