Course description
Specialisation Requirements:
* four core subjects
Core subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-013 Beowulf
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-015 Backgrounds to English Literature
This subject examines a range of Classical and Christian works to establish how and why they have been influential in Western literature and thought. Students who complete this subject successfully will have read a representative range of Classical l... Semester 1 12.50
106-024 Introduction to Old English A
This subject is an introduction to the language and literature of the Anglo-Saxons from 750 to 1150, focusing on both prose and poetry, read in the original. The basic grammar of Old English is taught. Students are introduced to linguistic concepts a... Semester 1 12.50
106-033 Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
In this subject students examine fiction by canonical British authors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries who are famous for their treatment of colonial themes like Orientalism, slavery, the civilizing mission, Manichean allegory , beachcombi... Semester 1 12.50
106-035 Genre Fiction/Popular Fiction
This subject takes popular fiction as a specific field of cultural production. Students will analyse various definitive features of that field: popular fiction's relations to 'literature', genre and identity, gender and sexuality, the ... Semester 2 12.50
106-038 Medievalism in Contemporary Culture
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-045 Aboriginal Writing
This subject studies Aboriginal fiction, poetry and drama, as well as life stories and criticism, focusing on questions of reading positions (particularly for non-Aboriginal students) and representation. It pays particular attention to the diversity ... Semester 2 12.50
106-046 Wild Writing: The Australian Imaginary
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-047 Art/Pornography/Blasphemy/Propaganda
This subject provides an introduction to the history and politics of censorship of the arts in the West since the 1890s. It examines the contested boundaries between art and its presumed 'others' - pornography, blasphemy and propaganda - by... Semester 2 12.50
106-052 Gothic Fictions
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-053 Chaucer and the Birth of the Author
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-058 Scandal, Sex and Sentiment
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-060 Decadent Literature
This subject examines decadence as a textual, historical, sexual and cultural formation, across a range of literary texts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A predominantly masculine mode of radical aestheticism, manifesting symptoms of... Semester 1 12.50
106-210 Romance and Melancholia
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-213 Art, Ideology and Doctrine, 400-1000
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-214 The Enlightenment and its Others
This subject explores some of the tensions in the project of the European Enlightenment by examining a series of literary and other texts which articulate its dark side or the areas of life which are not amenable to enlightened reason: slavery, sexua... Semester 1 12.50
106-216 Victorian Crime Writing
The nineteenth century saw the development of a new type of fiction, which demonised the villain and elevated the detective to heroic status. This subject will introduce students to the study of crime fiction as a literary genre and will also conside... Semester 1 12.50
106-219 Literature, Cyberspace & Virtual Reality
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-227 Modernism and Avant Garde
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-228 American Classics
In this subject, students will study major American literary works from the nineteenth century. Besides learning about the texts' style and the original historical contexts in which they were written and read, they will also be introduced to som... Semester 2 12.50
106-229 Travel Writing and Travel Texts
This subject examines a wide range of travel writing texts from the early eighteenth century onwards. Some of the texts are imaginary voyages, some are non-fictional works prompted by scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, explorati... Semester 2 12.50
106-230 Reverberations of Terror: 1789-1900
This subject introduces nineteenth-century political writing, tracing the cultures of radicalism, reaction and liberal reform that emerged after the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on the age of mass resistance, and the often-fearful reactions dissent in... Semester 2 12.50
106-239 The Novel & the Invention of the Modern
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-240 Introduction to Theory
This subject provides a course of intensive reading of four theorists whose work is broadly relevant to literary and cultural studies. These may include Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Frances Ferguso... Semester 2 12.50
106-361 Critical Debates
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-218 Romanticism, Feminism, Revolution
This subject maps the intertwined (and sometimes antagonistic) trajectories of Romanticism and early Feminism, as they emerge in Britain in the wake of the American and French Revolutions. Drawing on prose, poetry and drama from this period (includin... Semester 2 12.50
106-036 Postmodernism
This subject is an introduction to the major theories of postmodernism as a cultural and aesthetic category and postmodernity as a socio-historical concept, demonstrating their application to the critical analysis of literature, cinema, television an... Semester 1 12.50
