English 1B - Launceston (HEA104)
School of English, Journalism and European Languages - University of Tasmania
Semester 2 / 2009

Texts

Mrs Dalloway!$!Woolf, Virginia!$! !$!Harcourt!$!
The Hours Harper!$!Cunningham, Michael!$! !$!Perennial!$!
The Sign of Four !$!Conan Doyle, Arthur!$! !$!Penguin!$!
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories!$!Carter, Angela!$! !$!Vintage!$!
The Big Sleep!$!Chandler, Raymond!$! !$!Penguin!$!
y separately published work icon Swallow the Air Dust on Waterglass Tara June Winch , 2003 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1265164 2003 selected work short story (taught in 33 units)

Swallow the Air follows the life of 15-year-old May Gibson, an Aboriginal girl from New South Wales whose mother commits suicide. May and her brother go to live with their aunt, but eventually May travels further afield, first to Redfern's Block in Sydney, then to the Northern Territory, and finally into central New South Wales. She travels to escape, but also in pursuit of a sense of her own history, family, and identity.

Description

How do literary and film texts represent the world today? Through a series of modules that focus on popular fiction, literature and film, this unit introduces students to a variety of critical frameworks through which texts can be read. Students who successfully complete this unit will have built knowledge of specific theoretical terms such as race, nation, gender and genre, and developed core skills on which to base further studies in English.

Assessment

1,000 word assignment (20%), 1,500 word essay (30%), 2-hr exam (40%), participation (10%)

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Levels: Undergraduate
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