Sydney
Sydney
:
NewSouth Publishing
,
2010
Z1729705
2010
single work
prose
(taught in 3 units)
'Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of our cities. In this book, the third in a series in which leading Australian authors write about their hometowns, novelist Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity, and jacarandas. But she goes beyond these to find a far more complex city: beautiful, violent, half-wild, and at times deeply spiritual. It is a slightly unreal place, haunted by a past that it has never quite grasped, or come to terms with. Here, in her first non-fiction book, she proves herself an adept memoirist. She twines the stories of the people that have made Sydney the twenty-first century city it is today. Mad clergymen, amateur astronomers, Indigenous weather experts, crims and victims, photographers and artists: their stories are surprising, funny, and moving.' (From the publisher's website.)
Subject objectives/outcomes
At the completion of this subject, students are expected to be able to:
1. produce a biographical piece which conforms to what is expected of contemporary biographical narratives with the
2. appropriate use and acknowledgment of a wide number of sources
3. demonstrate depth of research in writing biographical and travel narratives
4. bring focused critical skills to bear on their own and other's non-fiction narratives
5. produce a piece of travel writing with a strong narrative combined with personal reflections and observations.
Barbara Lounsberry - The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction, Greenwood Press, 1990
Norman Sims Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century, OUP, 1990
