Tamarisk Row
Melbourne
:
Heinemann
,
1974
Z322076
1974
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
Mazin' Grace
2011
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2012
Z1804070
2011
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
'Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn't understand.'
The Mint Lawn
North Sydney
:
Allen and Unwin
,
1991
Z61573
1991
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
' North coast, New South Wales. Clementine is twenty-five and still living in the place where she grew up, rooted there by memories and her own inability to make changes until she has understood her past. That past is dominated by memories of her mother, and her mother's attempts to dramatise and enrich small-town life and the perceptions of her three clever , receptive daughters.' Publisher's blurb. Inside of front cover.
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
The Lagoon - Frame
This course investigates the idea of the writer's voice (or voices) through reading and writing. `Voice' is a mysterious concept. Students will explore the usefulness of `voice' (or voices) as a concept in other writers' work, and student-writers will ask whether they are consciously trying to develop what they might call `voice', to consider whether it is useful to try to define or pinpoint their own `voice', or if they should leave that to critics. In so doing, students will be encouraged to identify what attracts them to particular authors and pieces of writing. This course will challenge them to (where applicable) rethink their work after being exposed to a range of writing and to frame it as it relates to competing traditions. The texts we will read together will be selected for the multiplicity of voices they reveal, and will include novels, poetry, memoir and short fiction. Assessment will consist of: two pieces of creative writing (which can include creative non-fiction); an exegetical essay (investigating the research components of their work) and seminar participation.
