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3.00 Credits
Romances are beautiful lies, always entertaining, but also ideologically loaded. This unit examines a range of stories of love and war, of mystery and imagination, with an emphasis on their social and political implications in different historical eras from the Middle Ages to the postmodern present. The materials used include films such as The Princess Bride and an exciting variety of written texts including a modern romance novel.
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"ENG 20400 Critical Theory at UCD; This module introduces students to the key theoretical debates and issues in the humanities, particularly pertaining to the study of language and literature. It demands careful reading of theoretical texts and close attention to a series of difficult concepts, but in return this module repays students' efforts by providing an indispensable grounding in the foundational vocabularies and conceptual tools of the most exciting and progressive areas of contemporary critical and cultural studies. By the end of the module, students should be able to: - Identify the key theoretical debates and issues as addressed in readings and classes - Analyse the potential uses and problems of particular theoretical approaches to language and literature - Begin to formulate a sense of their own theoretical assumptions and predilections with regard to issues in the humanities."
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3.00 Credits
This unit pays particular attention to works by Aboriginal Australian, New Zealand Maori and Native North American peoples. Students examine cultural, spiritual and socio-political issues arising from the creation and production of Indigenous literatures, as well as our own mainstream socially and historically conditioned readings of them. The unit focuses on the dynamic use of language in Indigenous oral and written literatures and the development of forms of language better suited to their purposes than those traditionally promulgated by mainstream Western society. Texts include Keri Hulme's The Bone People, Roberta Syke's Snake Cradle and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of women writers in the English literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present. This course starts from Margery Kempe and ends with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Louise Erdich. Feminist critical theoriries and selected essays are also included. Prerequisite: EN 110 with a grade of C- or above.
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3.00 Credits
The course is concerned with the various theories from the 17th to 20th centuries that deal with fiction as a form of art. A limited number of novels and romances will be read as illustrations of these theories.
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3.00 Credits
Fremantle course # EL203 - In this unit, students examine literature from all over the world, told to or written for children. The unit covers oral traditions, written texts from the eighteenth century onward and performance texts such as those composed for film, theatre and puppetry. In order to facilitate students' conceptualisation of children and their literature throughout history a number of field trips are undertaken. The finale to the unit comprises the examination of contemporary children?s literature.
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3.00 Credits
Fremantle course # EL382 -This unit focuses on the power of words and the dynamic nature of literature in the context of the political nature of the acts of reading and writing. How useful are they in the ongoing battle for freedom and basic human rights? The unit examines some of the fiction and non-fiction written in English and originating in such areas as South Africa, Northern Ireland, Indonesia and the former Soviet Union. It considers the role of this literature in framing people's experiences and helping them to make sense of their political, religious and physical landscapes. The unit explores how we 'read' history in the making, how we separate it from cultural mythology, and the place of literature in efforts to achieve meaningful and lasting dialogue within and between torn and divided communities.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of poetry as a literary form, from ancient times to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Literature has been a major means of constructing the nation in Australia, but also a vital instrument of cultural critique. This unit examines key elements of 'the Australian Legend'?mateship, egalitarianism, rebelliousness?as they are articulated and subverted in Aboriginal, Anglo-Celtic and migrant texts. Poetry, fiction, drama and film from My Brilliant Career to The True History of the Kelly Gang have created sites for the subversion of inherited forms and dominant ideologies.
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3.00 Credits
Fremantle course # EL216 -A focus on exciting and innovative developments in Australian fiction, poetry and drama is the focus of this unit. A study is made of the movement away from the intense nationalism and the realism characteristic of Australian literature in the early years of the twentieth century. Students consider the ways in which the spiritual and cultural uncertainties of contemporary Australian life are reflected in the literature and film of the period and explore contemporary attitudes to history, myth, memory, imagination and a changing awareness of 'place' in the national consciousness.
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