Australian literature: a rough guide

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