Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2023-2023
MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2025-2025
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2023-2023
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2025-2025

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate thorough engagement with key primary and secondary material

2.

Demonstrate (orally and in writing) critical knowledge and understanding of the ways key literary texts negotiate politics and political questions

3.

Identify and critically respond to the range of discourses and techniques that distinguish literary from political writing

4.

Research, plan, and write informed reflections, discussion and argument, in long and short form.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

In lectures and tutorials students will engage with key theories that seek to explain the relationship between politics and literature. Students will read, analyse and discuss a selection of fiction and non-fiction – genres, stories, novels, poetry, and performance – to explore the ways in which literature might offer alternative and imaginative insights on and interventions into politics.