Wonderworlds: An Exploration of English Literature (EGL285)
Semester 2 / 2011

Texts

y separately published work icon Strange Objects Gary Crew , Port Melbourne : Heinemann , 1990 Z349485 1990 single work novel young adult mystery (taught in 3 units)

A sixteen-year-old Western Australian boy mysteriously disappears after he discovers valuable relics in the remains of a seventeen-century shipwreck.

Heart of Darkness!$!Conrad!$! !$!Harper Collins!$!
Beloved!$!Morrison!$! !$!Vintage!$!
One Hundred Years Of Solitude!$!Marquez!$! !$!Penguin!$!
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass!$!Lewis Carroll!$! !$!Wordsworth UK!$!
Dispossessed!$!Le Guin!$! !$!Orion!$!1999
Green Grass Running Water!$!King!$! !$!Bantam!$!
Beginning Theory :Introduction To Literary and Cultural Theory!$!Barry!$! !$!Manchester Uni Press!$!2009

Description

This course investigates some of the ways in which the conventional, accepted and the normal have been questioned through the processes of wondering and the construction of Wonderworlds: An Exploration of English Literature. Exploration and questioning of conventions is a foundation of studies in English, and the Humanities. To wonder is to imagine where we are not, and to consciously make sense of what might be in terms of our identities, environments, relationships and institutions. The word wonder encompasses an authors speculation about new worlds and a reader / viewers experience of surprise, awe and fascination. This course investigates multiple forms Wonderworlds: An Exploration of English Literature might take. These include alternative physical spaces, alternative views of time, alternative psychological realms, alternative histories, imagined futures, fantasy, the supernatural and other elements unspeakable in the Western rationalist tradition.

Other Details

Offered in: 2009
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