Australian Literature and History A (LCS31)
Arts and Humanities - Open Universities Australia (NO LONGER INDEXED - SEE INDIVIDUAL HOSTING INSTITUTIONS)
Semester 1, Semester 2 / 2011

Texts

y separately published work icon The Australian Short Story : An Anthology from the 1890s to the 1980s Laurie Hergenhan (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986 Z380969 1986 anthology short story (taught in 13 units)
y separately published work icon My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin , Edinburgh London : William Blackwood , 1901 Z161522 1901 single work novel (taught in 56 units)

'My Brilliant Career was written by Stella Franklin (1879-1954) when she was just nineteen years old. The novel struggled to find an Australian publisher, but was published in London and Edinburgh in 1901 after receiving an endorsement from Henry Lawson. Although Franklin wrote under the pseudonym 'Miles Franklin', Lawson’s preface makes it clear that Franklin is, as Lawson puts it 'a girl.'

'The novel relates the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a strong-willed young woman of the 1890s growing up in the Goulburn area of New South Wales and longing to be a writer.' (Publication summary)
y separately published work icon Turning the Century : Writing of the 1890s Christopher Lee (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1999 Z397740 1999 anthology short story poetry extract prose (taught in 12 units) The works in this selection, all composed or published between 1885 and 1905, 'represent the way in which literary forms were used to respond to some of the important social, cultural and political preoccupations' of Australia during this period (Note on the Text, ix). The work is divided into the following six sections, each with a prefatory Editor's Note; Histories and Futures; Home and Away; Love and Other Catastrophes; Work and Play; Civilisation and its Discontents: Art and Society. There is also a List of Sources, pp. 374-381, and a bibliography, pp. 382-390.

Description

Embark on a fascinating study of Australian writing from the late 19th and early 20th century. In this unit you read a selection of poetry, a novel and a selection of short stories. Throughout the unit you investigate and reflect on the themes of nationality and gender in Australian literature and history. Texts include an anthology and a unit dossier of relevant literary, historical and critical writings. This unit examines the inter-relations between literary writing and reading, cultural institutions and political movements and ideologies in the late 19th century.

Assessment

Essay 1 (34%)

Essay 2 (66%)

Other Details

This Unit is coordinated through Griffith University.

The availability of this subject is Study Period 1 (28 February - 29 May) and Study Period 3 (29 August - 27 November).


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Levels: Undergraduate
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