Australian Literature Honours D: Australian Postmodernism (ASLT4014)
Semester 1, Semester 2 / 2008

Description

This seminar examines a range of Australian texts in the light of postmodern questions. Among the issues to be explored are: unwriting meta-narratives; writing and/as re-writing; the death of the author/birth

of the reader; alliances of textuality, truth and power; discursive (de)constructions of the subject; relations between the postmodern and the postcolonial.

Assessment

Each semester option is assessed by a 4000 word essay.

Other Details

Offered in: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Levels: Undergraduate - Honours
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