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Australian literature: a rough guide
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English
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- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1 literature& country
Lesson 1
Lecture 1.1intro: literature & country (course details)
Lecture 1.2 literature& country (Tim Winton and different coasts)
Lecture 1.3 literature& country (D. H. Lawrence, Kangaroo)
Lesson 2
Lecture 1.4Central Australia (intro to Hermannsburg & T. G. H. Strehlow)
Lecture 1.5Central Australia (Songs of CentralAustralia)
Lecture 1.6Northern Australia (‘Little Eva at Moonlight Creek’ song cycle)
Lesson 3
Lecture 1.7Sydney (Farm Cove, Watkin Tench)
Lecture 1.8Sydney (Barron Field)
Lecture 1.9Sydney (Charles Harpur)
Week 2 crime& punishment
Lesson 1
Lecture 2.1 intro:crime & punishment (Australia as Hell)
Lecture 2.2 crime & punishment (‘Moreton Bay’)
Lecture 2.3 crime & punishment ('A Convict's Tour to Hell')
Lesson 2
Lecture 2.4 intro: crime & punishment (Port Arthur, Tasmania)
Lecture 2.5crime & punishment (Marcus Clarke, Forthe Term of His Natural Life)
Lecture 2.6crime & punishment (Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish)
Lesson 3
Lecture 2.7crime & punishment (Ned Kelly, 'Jerilderie Letter')
Lecture 2.8crime & punishment (Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang)
Lecture 2.9crime & punishment (Peter Temple, TheBroken Shore)
Week 3 explorers,frontier & settlement
Lesson 1
Lecture 3.1 intro: explorers, legends, frontier
Lecture 3.2 explorers (Ludwig Leichhardt in literature)
Lecture 3.3 explorers (interlude, discussion)
Lesson 2
Lecture 3.4 explorers(Patrick White, Voss and the literaryclassic)
Lecture 3.5 explorers(Patrick White, Voss)
Lecture 3.6 explorers(Patrick White, Voss)
Lesson 3
Lecture 3.7 frontier & settlement
Lecture 3.8frontier & settlement (David Malouf, RememberingBabylon)
Lecture 3.9frontier & settlement (Kim Scott, ThatDeadman Dance)
Week 4 home& away
Lesson 1
Lecture 4.1intro: home & away (A. D. Hope, ‘Australia’)
Lecture 4.2home & away (Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, colonial times)
Lecture 4.3home & away (Martin Boyd, The Cardboard Crown, Anglo-Australian families)
Lesson 2
Lecture 4.4home & away (Judith Wright, the Moonbi Range)
Lecture 4.5home & away (Judith Wright’s New England)
Lecture 4.6 home& away (Judith Wright, pastoralism and ecology)
Lesson 3
Lecture 4.7 home& away (Christina Stead and expatriate life)
Lecture 4.8 home& away (Christina Stead, ‘Sea People,' For Love Alone)
Lecture 4.9home & away (Christina Stead, ‘Sea People,' For Love Alone)
Week 5
Lesson 1
Lecture 5.1 summary,assignments etc.
Lecture/discussion5.2 summary-discussion Philip Mead and Claire Jones
Week 6
Assignmentsdue & peer assessed
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
- Claire Jones - English and Cultural Studies
- Philip Mead - English and Cultural Studies
Editor
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