Cirrus@Austlit

In this second-year core subject, students will be introduced to key questions in the study of twentieth- and twenty-first-century narrative, including: what is narrative, what is text, what is aesthetic form and how does it shape narrative possibilities? Students will work with examples from fiction and non-fiction, including: realism, anti-realism, and the autobiographic text. The subject will bridge literary studies and creative writing, enhancing the critical and creative skills of students# writing practices. This subject addresses La Trobe's Global Citizenship Essential. Global Citizenship entails deep appreciation of how we live in an interconnected world. From the point of view of literary studies, this is implied in the ways by which we write and read our-selves and others across cultures and boundaries. This subject offers students an in-creased capacity to identify and communicate our subjectivity and intersubjectivity in a global environment. Importantly, it also helps students imagine the needs of future citizens of the world through their fictions.