Devil In A Blue Dress
Dubliners
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down & Wept
Fly Away Peter
The Bread of Time to Come
1982
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1982
Z22123
1982
single work
novella
war literature
(taught in 14 units)
'For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.' (Source: Publisher's website)
This course introduces students to the study of literary texts, mainly chosen from the twentieth century to the present. It shows how genre and tradition influence creative literary production, focussing on poetry, narrative fiction and literary non-fiction. Students will become skilled readers, who have an understanding of the way texts work, and how social and cultural contexts shape responses to literature.
