The Rhetoric of the Streets (ENGL3615)
Semester 2 / 2012

Description

This unit will map the performative journeys of the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians who patrol our streets, pages, and screens. Flaneurs, fetishists, poets, petty criminals, predators, and despairing shift-workers will all jostle for space. Students will reconfigure the streets as rhetorical spaces and consider how authors, artists and filmmakers use urban streetscapes as sites to construct representations of class, gender, race, sanity and sexuality. Students will be challenged to reconsider concepts of authorship and to interrogate different kinds of texts.

Assessment

1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x1000wd tutorial exercise (20%), 1x2500wd take-home exercise (40%)

Supplementary Texts

A course reader will be available.

Other Details

Offered in: 2010, 2008
Current Campus: Camperdown/Darlington
Levels: Undergraduate
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