Literary Studies: Literature and Law (8140)
Faculty of Arts and Design - University of Canberra
2009

Texts

Merchant Of Venice!$!Shakespeare, William!$!!$!Penguin!$!2005
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Disgrace!$!Coetzee, J.M.!$!!$!Vintage!$!2000
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y separately published work icon Benang : From the Heart Kim Scott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1999 Z135862 1999 single work novel (taught in 31 units) In the vast expanse of Western Australia, a young Indigenous man embarks on a profound journey within himself. Labelled as the successful outcome of his white grandfather's attempts to breed the 'first white man born', Harley wants to be a failure. Finding himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self, Harley's story takes the reader on an eye-opening and heartbreaking narrative of the impact of colonisation on First Nations people in Australia. From one of Australia's most revered storytellers, Benang sheds light on the ongoing struggle for cultural preservation, and is an epic and beautiful story of celebration and lament, beginning and return.
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Trial!$!Kafka!$!!$!Penguin!$!2000
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Degrees

Bachelor of Writing

Description

This unit focuses on the topic of law in/and literature, which it explores through a range of literary and filmic texts and through literary theory. Students will read a range of works with a legal inflection, and investigate them by applying concepts drawn from philosophy and literary theory, including judgment and genre. They will study novels, poetry, philosophy, and extracts from Hansard, judgments and other dicta with the aim of understanding how law and literature intertwine. Is it possible to write or to read outside generic and other social conventions?

Supplementary Texts

To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee, Harper: , Mandarin 1989.

Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life by Nussbaum, Martha C.: , Beacon Press 1997.

Other Details

Levels: Undergraduate
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