Jane Eyre
Long Goodbye
Rebecca
French Lieutenants Woman
Stone Diaries
The Penelopiad
The Great World
London
:
Chatto and Windus
,
1990
Z436200
1990
single work
novel
historical fiction
(taught in 3 units)
'Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage reprint).
This unit explores the construction of gender in various genres, and the way genres can be gendered. Students will produce research-based work that explores female and male voices in different textual modes. Research topics to be examined include: themes and centres of interest associated with particular textual types and modes; character, voicing, and style in different genres; writing the male and female selves; the way friendship, security, and love are imagined, written, and read in different genres; and fiction and non-fiction as gendered modes.
