Gilgamesh : A Novel
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2001
Z894113
2001
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
'Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose to take through life and what happens when ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary, seismic events.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (2018 ed.).
Ransom
North Sydney
:
Knopf Australia
,
2009
Z1529380
2009
single work
novel
(taught in 20 units)
'With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf revisits Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride, grief, brutality, love and neighbourliness are explored.' (Publisher's blurb)
The Tempest
Candide And Other Stories
Remains of the Day
This unit explores the theme of the journey in writing from the distant past to the present. The journey comes in many written forms—quest, pilgrimage, exploration, emigration, wandering, travel and tourism. Journey texts capture the aspirations of the places and times in which they are written, but they also may reveal a society's challenges, fears and anxious confrontations with cultural difference. The unit introduces students to the reading of imaginative literature within particular historical contexts and is a good preparation for further study in both past and contemporary literatures.
