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| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Online | Term1 | N/A |
Unit description
Guides students through the major contemporary theoretical debates about the relationship between written texts and the production of cultural and social meanings. Students will do a detailed study of the theories of Postmodernism, Post-colonialism and Feminism.
Unit content
- Introduction
- Deconstruction, Derrida and beyond
- New Historicism in the literary landscape
- A question of authorship
- Power and ethics
- Theorising whiteness
- Shifting subjectivity
- Radical subjectivities
- Space and time after 9/11
- Postmodernity in the 21st century.
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | differentiate between major contemporary theories about writing and written texts and the relationship of texts to cultural practices |
| 2 | recognise the theoretical positions underlying particular critical approaches to writing and textual analysis |
| 3 | understand the significance of the social and cultural contexts in which texts are made and read |
| 4 | apply literary theories to textual analysis in a range of academic writing forms. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- differentiate between major contemporary theories about writing and written texts and the relationship of texts to cultural practices
- recognise the theoretical positions underlying particular critical approaches to writing and textual analysis
- understand the significance of the social and cultural contexts in which texts are made and read
- apply literary theories to textual analysis in a range of academic writing forms.
Prescribed texts
- Flanagan, R, 2008, Wanting, Knopf, North Sydney.
- Juchau, M, 2015, The World Without Us, Bloomsbury , Sydney.
- Kang, H, 2015, The Vegetarian, Portobello Books, London.
- Turner Hospital, J, 2007, Orpheus Lost, Fourth Estate, Sydney.
- Wright, A, 2006, Carpentaria, Giramondo, Sydney.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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