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Overseas Study - English
Enrolment code: HEA090
Unit description: For details, contact Faculty of Arts
Introduction to English: Australian Literature
Enrolment code: HEA101
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; NWC, sem 1; dist.ed, sem 1
Unit description: Students study Australian literature in the genres of poetry,
fiction (short story and novel), and drama. Though the focus is on individual
texts rather than critical writings, students are expected to demonstrate a
capacity to argue effectively by incorporating critical writings in their essays.
The unit enables students to place Australian literature within a wider cultural
context. It discusses literature as a reflection of and reaction to colonialist
attitudes and turn-of-the-century nationalism.
Staff: Dr CA Cranston
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1x2-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly; dist.ed: 2 weekend study schools
Assess: 2x1,000-word essays (40%), 2-hr exam (60%)
Required texts, etc:
a selection of in-print texts relevant to the study of modules in any given year.
Courses: R3A S3T
English 1A
Enrolment code: HEA103
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Introduces students to tertiary level literary studies with an
emphasis on textuality. The work of close reading, critical thinking, writing
practice and textual analysis is focused through the study of a selection of the
following formal, historical and genre-based modules: Chaucer, Shakespeare,
contemporary Australian writing, theory, poetry, modernism, postmodernism,
narrative, reading images, drama, women writing and postcolonial fiction.
Staff: Dr A Johnston, Dr N Moore (Coordinators)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Assess: internal assessment (60%), end-of-sem exam (40%)
Required texts, etc:
a selection of in-print texts relevant to the study of modules in any given year.
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R3A S3T
English 1B
Enrolment code: HEA104
Offered: Hbt, sem 2; Ltn, sem 2; NWC, sem 2; dist.ed, sem 2
Unit description: Introduces students to tertiary level literary studies with an
emphasis on reading practices. The work of close reading, critical thinking,
writing practice and textual analysis is focused through the study of a selection
of the following formal, historical and genre-based modules: Chaucer,
Shakespeare, contemporary Australian writing, theory, poetry, modernism,
postmodernism, narrative, reading images, drama, women writing and
postcolonial fiction.
Staff: Dr J Mead, Dr N Shaw (Coordinators)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 3 hrs weekly
Assess: internal assessment (60%), end-of-sem exam (40%)
Required texts, etc:
a selection of in-print texts relevant to the study of modules in any given year.
Courses: R3A S3T
Writing Poetry and Short Fiction
Enrolment code: HEA203/303
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Introduces resources and techniques for the production of
work in the genres of poetry and short fiction including: examination of
contemporary texts and experimental work in each genre; review of theoretical
issues such as reader response theory; discussion of narrative and poetic
devices. All of these will be studied in association with writing exercises and
response by a student audience in workshop situations.
Staff: Dr A Peek
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA201/301
Assess: portfolio of work in both genres including a minimum of 2 short stories
and 6–8 poems (90%), viva based on the portfolio (10%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A +OC
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British Literature 1850–1900
Enrolment code: HEA204/304
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Offers the opportunity to study classic texts in British
literature from the later 19th century. Begins with perhaps the most popular
poem of the Victorian period, Tennyson’s In Memoriam. Tennyson’s elegy leads
on to Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel of social analysis, North and South, George
Eliot’s quintessential realist novel, Middlemarch, and Thomas Hardy’s
depiction of rural romance, Far From the Madding Crowd. William Morris (News
From Nowhere), HG Wells (The Time Machine), and Rudyard Kipling (Kim)
exemplify the themes of utopian fantasy, post-Darwinian doubt, and imperial
politics respectively. This unit is designed to complement HEA257/357 British
Literature 1800–1850.
Staff: Dr E Leane (Coordinator), Prof L Frost, Dr A Johnston, Dr J Mead, Dr P
Mead, Dr N Moore
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 hrs fortnightly, alternate 2&3-hr seminars
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 2,500-word essay (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Required texts, etc:
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, 1855
Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850
George Eliot, Middlemarch, (1871)
Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874
William Morris, News From Nowhere, 1891
HG Wells, The Time Machine, 1895
Rudyard Kipling, Kim, 1901
Majors: English
Courses: R3A +OC
Beautiful Lies: Recent Australian Writing
Enrolment code: HEA205/305
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Provides a study of Australian fiction and drama from
Patrick White’s later fiction to 21st-century texts. The emphasis of the unit is on
significant and interrelated areas of contemporary Australian writing like the
rewriting of Australian history and culture; Indigenous cultural production;
scandal; representations of gender; experiment; multiculturalism and place.
Staff: Dr A Johnston (Coordinator), Prof L Frost, Dr P Mead
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 hrs fortnightly, alternate 2&3-hr seminars
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA201/301
Assess: 1,000-word essay (20%),2,500-word essay (40%) 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts, etc:
Unit Reader, and a selection of Australian literary texts including:
Alma de Groer, Rivers of China
Roger McDonald, Mr Darwin’s Shooter
Sally Morgan, My Place
Jan Watson, The Kadaitcha Song
Patrick White, A Fringe of Leaves
Majors: English
Courses: R3A +OC
Medieval Writing
Enrolment code: HEA213/313
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Offers a program of reading Middle English and major
writers from the late 14th and 15th centuries. Students work through a basic
reading of Middle English language through selected works of Geoffrey
Chaucer, John Gower, John Mandeville, and a selection of women writers.
Critical scholarship includes work currently produced in the fields of medieval
literary criticism and critical theory including Cultural Studies and feminism.
Staff: Dr J Mead
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAF217/317
Assess: 2,000-word essay (40%), 3-hr exam (60%)
Majors: English, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A
The Literature of Tasmania
Enrolment code: HEA214/314
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Introduces students to a wide range of writing about
Tasmania, from 19th-century, early 20th-century, contemporary and Aboriginal
perspectives. The unit aims to give students a detailed knowledge of some of
the historically and generically diverse body of writing about Tasmania written
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and published both here in Tasmania and in national and international
contexts. Thematic focuses of the unit include Tasmania in the European
imagination, ‘the hated stain’ of convictism, Van Diemen’s Land, Tasmanian
Gothic, black-white relations, colonial narrative, the literature of the South, the
strange narrative density of Tasmania, and the representation of the natural
environment.
Staff: Dr P Mead, Prof L Frost, Dr A Johnston
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English (S3T: 25% from Schedule B)
Assess: internal assessment (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English, Natural Environment and Wilderness Studies
Courses: R3A S3T
Constructing Modernity and the Metropolis
Enrolment code: HEA215/315
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Examines key texts of Modernist literature in relation to the
development of the 20th-century metropolis. Specifically, the unit will look at
the ways in which fiction and poetry from 1900–1939 engaged with and
constructed the cities of London, Dublin, Paris and New York. The unit focuses
on a range of fiction and poetry including the poetry of Gertrude Stein, TS Eliot,
WB Yeats and the fiction of DH Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Dos
Passos. The unit also interrogates the way Modernist literature was harnessed
by academics in the consolidation of literary studies in the modern university.
Staff: Dr E McMahon
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA283/383, HEA284/384
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 2-hr seen exam (40%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies
Enrolment code: HEA222/322
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Provides a study of select Shakespearean histories and
tragedies which focus on the personalities and actions of renowned rulers at
moments of great political change. The plays will be examined within the
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context of recent critical debates about the relationship between Shakespeare’s
stage and the Elizabethan and Jacobean world. Also considered are questions of
genre, Renaissance historiography, performance history, and some of the ways
in which Shakespeare’s political dramas have been reworked to reflect new
preoccupations and concerns.
Staff: Dr R Gaby
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 2,500 word essay (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Shakespeare: Comedy and Romance
Enrolment code: HEA223/323
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Provides an introduction to Shakespearean comedy with an
emphasis upon performance history, comic conventions and historic contexts.
Comedies from different phases of Shakespeare’s career will be considered with
attention to the varying conceptions of gender, love, sexuality, and power
contested within them.
Staff: Dr R Gaby
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1x2-hr seminar weekly, 1-hr workshop fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English, Ancient Civilisations
Courses: R3A
Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
Enrolment code: HEA225/325
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: During the Renaissance the native tradition of English
tragedy reached a peak of popularity and achievement. Many playwrights
besides Shakespeare essayed the art of tragedy, producing poetic dramas which
are full of passion, action, and violence, but which also embody the questioning
spirit of the age. This course focuses on major works by some of Shakespeare’s
contemporaries, paying particular attention to the contradictions and
complexities of the tragic form.
Staff: Dr R Gaby
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1x2-hr seminar weekly, 1-hr workshop fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English, Ancient Civilisations
Courses: R3A
Modern Drama
Enrolment code: HEA226/326
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: The advent of film and television has highlighted the
artificiality of live theatre and made it seem, for many, a redundant mode of
communication. In response modern drama has been preoccupied with
articulating a new role for itself, focusing attention on its own rituals and the
intensity of the actor/audience relationship, and drawing power from the
contradictions of its form. This unit aims to introduce a range of provocative
late 20th-century dramatic texts and to consider the kind of voice modern
drama has developed.
Staff: Dr R Gaby
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1x2-hr seminar weekly, 1-hr workshop fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Reading the Classics: Ovid and Chaucer
Enrolment code: HEA227/327
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Examines the relations between two major authors of the
western canon, classical Ovid and medieval Chaucer. In the case of Ovid, we
will examine Heroides, a collection of letters by mythological women to their
lovers, and Metamorphoses, a quasi-epic poem centrally concerned with sexual
passion. In the case of Chaucer we will examine the Legend of Good
Women, Chaucer’s legendary rollcall of virtuous women and immoral men, The
Book of the Duchess, Chaucer’s elegy on the death of his patron’s beautiful wife
and The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s account of a group excursion to
Canterbury and the stories told along the way. We will pay particular attention
to specific relations between Ovid, Chaucer and their antecedents,
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intertextuality and the trope of translatio studii, literary and historical contexts,
questions of genre and the representation of sexual politics and desire.
Staff: Dr J Mead, Assoc Prof P Davis
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HTC225/325, HAF225/325
Assess: 2,500-word essay (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: English, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A
African Literature West and South
Enrolment code: HEA253/353
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Offers an introduction to modern texts in a variety of genres
(novel, autobiography, poetry, drama and short stories) from modern West and
South Africa. Post-colonial theory (including writing back, nationalism,
hybridity, representation) will structure close reading of text and issues of
contextualisation.
Staff: Dr A Peek
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA259/359
Assess: 2,000-word essay (40%), 1,000-word tutorial paper (20%), 2-hr exam
(40%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Power, Pleasure and Perversion
Enrolment code: HEA254/354
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Investigates the way the categories of power, pleasure and
perversion have been deployed as hermeneutic devices in the latter half of the
20th century. It will track the general dissolution of philosophies of certainty in
the post-war period and the rise of philosophies of uncertainty (ie
poststructuralism, postmodernism, postfeminism, postmarxism etc). It will use
literary texts as both examples of this shift, and as texts to be investigated using
these three categories.
Staff: Dr I Buchanan
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1-hr lecture, 1x2-hr tutorial weekly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAC249/349, HAF226/326, FST264/364
Assess: 2,000-word essay (20%), 3,000-word essay (40%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A +OC
Confessionalism: Post-Romantic Associations
Enrolment code: HEA255/355
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; NWC, sem 1; dist.ed, sem 1
Unit description: The intensely personal and controversial poetry termed
‘confessional’ began with Robert Lowell’s Life Studies (1959). This unit maps
the ‘confessional’ terrain subsequently traversed by poets in England, the
United States, and Australia. Taking Romanticism as a conceptual reference, it
raises questions about the use to which autobiographical material is being put
in the construction of the poetic ‘I’.
Staff: Dr N Shaw
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 2,000-word essay at 200 level, 3,000-word essay at 300 level (50%), 2-hr
exam (50%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
British Literature 1800–1850
Enrolment code: HEA257/357
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Offers opportunity to study classic texts in British literature
from the early 19th century. Begins with a key text, in poetry, of early
Romanticism, Lyrical Ballads (William Wordsworth), and follows the
emergence of Victorian literature by reading canonical novels in the influential
genres of the period: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, the novel of debate;
Mary Shelly, Frankenstein, the Gothic novel; Charlotte Brontë, Jane
Eyre, female bildungsroman; and Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Romantic
bildungsroman.
Staff: Dr E Leane (Coordinator), Prof L Frost, Dr J Mead, Dr P Mead, Dr N
Moore
Unit weight: 12.5%
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Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA257/357 British Women Writing
Assess: 2,500-word essay (50%), 2-hr exam (50%)
Majors: English, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A +OC
American Women Writing (Nineteenth Century)
Enrolment code: HEA258/358
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Examines the work of women writing in the United States
between the middle of the 19th century and the First World War. It considers
the literary strategies by which they negotiated the gender restrictions and
stereotyping of their time, and asks how their specific circumstances (including
class, education, marital status, race, and region) affected the public voice of
their writing.
Staff: Prof L Frost
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 3x1-hr lectures, 2x1-hr tutorials fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAF224/324
Assess: 3,000-word essay (60%), 2-hr seen exam (40%)
Majors: English, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A
African Literature
Enrolment code: HEA259/359
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Examines how developments in form and content have led
to the emergence of modern African literature as a distinctive body of writing.
Work by black writers from West, East and Southern Africa is studied in
relation to the following issues: the relationship between written and oral
literature; literary form and politics; tribal cosmologies and belief systems; the
response of black writers to the colonial novel; the influence of the Bible and the
historical impact of Christianity.
Staff: Dr A Peek
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: course materials; 2 weekend study schools at Launceston
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA253/353
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Assess: 1,000-word analysis exercise (10%), 2,000-word essay (20%), 3,000-word
essay (30%), 3-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Critical Theory
Enrolment code: HEA260/360
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Surveys 20th-century literary theory and criticism
(including Marxism, the Frankfurt School, semiotics, structuralism and
deconstruction). Students are encouraged to exercise critical independence in
their thinking and to develop their own critical strategies in response to their
reading, and to develop their awareness of the importance of careful and
wide-ranging scholarship. In relation to students’ own writing, the unit also
provides practical analyses of the forms, gestures and vocabularies of
theoretical and critical writing.
Staff: Dr I Buchanan
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAC204/304, FST251/351
Assess: internal (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English, Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: R3A
Confessionalism: Postmodernist Applications
Enrolment code: HEA261/361
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Offers an extension of the program of reading poetry
variously situated with respect to the idea of ‘confessionalism’; that is, poetry as
anodynic therapy. Debate on issues of generic innovation and poetry’s social
relevance is engendered within the context of postmodernism, which is
advanced by current critical scholarship as necessary for talk about health and
illness, medicine and suffering. The postmodernist paradigm configures the
poet as therapist, as distinct from prophet or unacknowledged legislator.
Staff: Dr N Shaw
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2-hr lecture weekly, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
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Assess: 2,000 word essay at level 200, 3,000-word essay at level 300 (60%), 2-hr
exam (40%); differentiation of levels is maintained in the unit’s assessment:
assignment topics, examination papers are level-specific
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
National Shakespeare
Enrolment code: HEA262/362
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Provides a study of some contexts of Shakespearean drama
and theatrical practices in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, as well as the
literary, cultural and critical traditions that Shakespeare’s work inaugurated in
Britain in later centuries and in other national and political contexts, the US,
Australia and India. The work of the unit includes close readings of select
Shakespeare plays, including their historical contexts and reception history, in
relation to a critical knowledge of national, political and historical aspects of the
institution ‘Shakespeare’. This institutional aspect of Shakespeare is also
studied through some latter-day fictional and filmic rewritings of
Shakespearean narratives and characters.
Staff: Dr P Mead
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAC246/346, FST256/356
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), take-home exam (40%)
Majors: English, Cultural Studies
Courses: R3A
Popular Fiction: Texts and Audiences
Enrolment code: HEA267/367
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Through a close reading of a number of different popular
fiction texts such as the horror story, the Mills & Boon romance, the crime story
as well as science fiction and fantasy, this unit will, first of all, try to determine
what the key characteristics of the various popular fiction genres are. Then,
more speculatively, it will try to discover what it is that makes them popular.
This will involve a consideration of the constitution of audiences, or ‘reading
publics’, and what it is that people get from literature.
Staff: Dr I Buchanan (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
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Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAC247/347, FST258/358
Assess: 2,000-word essay (20%), 3,000-word essay (40%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English, Cultural Studies, Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: R3A
The Body in the Text: 20th Century Australian
Fiction
Enrolment code: HEA269/369
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Investigates the relationship between the anomalous body
and its Australian context through various 20th-century Australian texts. It
undertakes a critical inquiry into how the deformed or disabled body is used as
a device within the text; it explores how these bodies are used as a literary
‘device’: that is, a contrivance, a method of deception, or as an illuminator of the
literary work. The unit explores the systematised imaginative artistic activity of
symbolism and archetypal myths that are a part of the baggage of ‘physical
deviation’, and examines the ‘textual deviations’ and conformities that either
perpetuate, or challenge, negative stereotypes.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 3,000-word essay (60%), 2-hr unseen exam (40%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
The Legend of King Arthur
Enrolment code: HEA277/377
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Provides an introduction to the legend in medieval
literature and beyond focusing on Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur.
Students read other texts in the original and in translation, including Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight. Students also research the subsequent life of the Arthur
story through the 19th century (Tennyson’s Idylls of the King) and contemporary
versions such as the film Excalibur.
Staff: Dr J Mead (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
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Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAC205/305, FST261/361
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), take-home exam (60%)
Majors: English, Cultural Studies
Courses: R3A
‘Just like in Thelma and Louise’: Feminism and
Film
Enrolment code: HEA278/378
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Introduces students to a genre of films influenced by
contemporary feminism; some operations of film as cultural practice and the
interaction between gender, representation and the consumption of film.
Staff: Dr J Mead
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1x2-hr screening, 1-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAC207/307, FST296/396
Assess: internal assessment (60%), end-of-sem exam (40%)
Majors: English, Cultural Studies, Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: R3A
LA Noir: Film Noir and Hollywood
Enrolment code: HEA279/379
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Introduces students to the formal conventions and
narratives of the genre of film noir. Film noir is then used to examine theoretical
and technical aspects of film study such as spectatorship and shot-by-shot
analysis. Film noir’s relation to Hollywood elucidates relations between film
and one of the largest and longest-running film-producing industries.
Staff: Dr J Mead
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1x2-hr screening, 1-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA268/368 Narrative into Film, HAC214/314, FST295/395
Assess: internal assessment (60%), end-of-sem exam (40%)
Majors: English, Cultural Studies, Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: R3A
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Romantic Poetry
Enrolment code: HEA280/380
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Looks at the Romantic movement in terms of the reality and
metaphor provided by the industrial action of the ‘framebreakers’; it looks at
Blake as a possible custodian of the social conscience and Wordsworth’s
reimagining of the Noble Savage. Coleridge’s poetry provides a discussion of
art and the subconscious; while Keats’s poetry introduces the notion of disease
as artistic inspiration. Students will also be introduced to some of the ‘invisible’
women Romantic writers, such as Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Lamb and
Hannah More. The unit provides excellent theoretical groundwork for a study
of the novel in 19th century.
Staff: Dr CA Cranston
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 3,000-word essay (60%), 2-hr unseen exam (40%)
Required texts, etc:
Bloom H and Trilling L (eds), Romantic Poetry and Prose, OUP,1973
Breen J (ed), Women Romantic Poets: 17985–1832, Everyman, 1994
Unit Reader, Women Romantic Poets
Ford B (ed), The Pelican Guide to English Literature, vol 5, Penguin, 1982
Cuddon JA, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, ISBN
0140512276
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
The Novel in the Nineteenth Century
Enrolment code: HEA282/382
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; NWC, sem 2; dist.ed, sem 2
Unit description: Examines the attempted usurpation of the feminine in
favour of science; form and function in Dickens’s work; the various discourses
at work in Emily Bront ‘s novel; through to Hardy’s novel, where students are
introduced to early Feminist ideas, along with 20th-century pessimism as an
‘art’.
Staff: Dr CA Cranston
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
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Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA221/321, HEA278/378 Romantic Poetry and the Novel in the
Nineteenth Century
Assess: 3,000-word essay (60%), 2-hr unseen exam (40%)
Majors: English, Economics
Courses: R3A
Modernism in British Literature 1910–1930
Enrolment code: HEA283/383
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; NWC, sem 1; dist.ed, sem 1
Unit description: Reviews Modernism in relation to prose styles and texts,
with work of DH Lawrence, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf providing a focus
for study. Expatriation, social developments in late 19th and early 20th
centuries, feminism, psychology, methods of production and publication, and
colonialism all provide contexts for discussion. Formal developments include
the stream-of-consciousness novel and short fiction.
Staff: Dr A Peek
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Assess: 2x1,000-word analysis (15% ea), 2,500-word essay (20%), 3-hr exam
(50%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Modernism in British Literature: Poetry
Enrolment code: HEA284/384
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Reviews and investigates the definition of Modernism as
applied to a variety of poetic styles and texts produced in Britain between 1910
and 1930. Interaction is examined with innovations in 19th-century prose,
European visual arts, Chinese and Japanese poetry in the vernacular and in
translation.
Staff: Dr A Peek
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA279/379/380
Assess: seminar presentation with 1,000-word paper (20%), 2,000-word essay
(40%), 2-hr exam (40%)
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Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Sexuality and the Subject in Fiction
Enrolment code: HEA286/386
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Analyses the ways in which sexuality is represented in
fiction and film. The texts selected for study span from Balzac’s novella,
Sarrasine – much later the subject of Roland Barthes’ landmark critical study,
S/Z – to the 1993 film, Basic Instinct. The unit will ask questions about the
relationship between sexuality and gender and the construction of subjectivity.
It will also examine the ways in which sexualised subjects are constructed by
genre. These issues will be considered in view of what Michel Foucault termed
the ‘discursive deployment of sexuality’ from the 19th century to the present.
Staff: Dr E McMahon
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAF232/323
Assess: 3,000-word essay (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Majors: English, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A
Postmodern American Poetry
Enrolment code: HEA288/388
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Surveys the important movements in poetry in North
America since World War II: the Beats, the Black Mountain school, New York
school, the Harlem and San Francisco Renaissances, through to the many
strands of contemporary Language writing. Students study in depth the work
of such important figures as Allen Ginsburg, Charles Olson, Bernadette Mayer,
John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian. Other important documents in the history of
postmodern American poetry, included in this study, are Donald Allen’s 1960
anthology The New American Poetry, the volume of poetics that accompanied
that anthology and Paul Hoover’s Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton
Anthology, and the critical work of Marjorie Perloff.
Staff: Dr P Mead
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
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Assess: internal assessment (60%), end-of-sem exam (40%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Gender and Nation
Enrolment code: HEA289/389
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Considers 20th-century Australian writing, with a focus on
gender and race, and in the context of recent developments in Australian and
(post) colonial cultural history. Organised historically, the unit is designed to
examine the tenuous and yet radical cultural authority offered to cultural work
in the nationalist project of white Australian literature. In a selection of
influential as well as innovative, even marginal, texts from Indigenous,
non-Anglo and white Australian writers, a spectrum of imaginative challenges
to the singular concept of ‘Australia’ is presented.
Staff: Dr N Moore
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5 contact hrs fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HAF262/362
Assess: internal assessment (60%), exam (40%)
Majors: English, Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A
Writing Narrative
Enrolment code: HEA290/390
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Is designed to heighten the student’s understanding of
writing for an audience in relation to the following types of non-fiction
narrative: biographical and autobiographical narrative; feature article for print
and radio; review; short drama. Techniques used include: drafting, editing,
research, marketing and submission.
Staff: Dr A Peek
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in English
Mutual excl: HEA202/302
Assess: submissions in 3 types of narrative nominated in end-of-sem portfolio
(total length 4,000 words)(90%), end-of-sem viva, based on discussion of
one of the pieces submitted (10%)
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Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Research Project
Enrolment code: HEA375
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Involves structured reading and writing on a topic agreed
on between the individual student and a supervisor and approved by the Head
of School. Students are expected to employ the skills and conceptual knowledge
acquired in earlier units to investigate an appropriate issue or topic over a full
year period. the HoS’s approval is required for enrolment in this unit.
Staff: negotiated with HoS
Unit weight: 25%
Prereq: 25% at level 200 in English
Assess: 7,000-word essay (100%); or alternatively, 3,500-word essay (50%), 3-hr
exam (50%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
Research Project
Enrolment code: HEA376
Offered: Hbt, sem 1/sem 2/; Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Special note: the HoS’s approval is required for enrolment in this unit
Unit description: Involves structured reading and writing on a topic agreed
on between the individual student and a supervisor and approved by the Head
of School. Students are expected to employ the skills and conceptual knowledge
acquired in earlier units to investigate an appropriate issue or topic over a
1-semester period.
Staff: negotiated with HoS
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: 25% at level 200 in English
Assess: 3,500-word essay (100%)
Majors: English
Courses: R3A
English 4 (Honours)
Enrolment code: HEA400/401
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Full time/Part time
Offered: Hbt, Ltn
Special note: full-time students enrol in HEA400 (100%), part-time students in
HEA401 (50%); individual units have notional weight, but for HECS purposes
must be weighted at 0%
Unit description: The English Honours course provides an opportunity for
students to study a range of literary studies units at advanced level and to
complete a substantial piece of research work. It is designed to introduce
students to the advanced study of ‘English’ and the many possibilities that
currently fall under that disciplinary heading, and to provide opportunities for
qualifying for postgraduate work in the field. The course comprises four units
of coursework and a long essay. Intending students are asked to state by late
December 2000 their preferences for three of the units offered in 2001. Students
are advised to consult the Honours noticeboard for detailed reading lists for
units.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 100%/50%
Prereq: Major, with Grade-Point Average of 6 or higher in 75% of English units
at levels 200/300
Assess: 4 coursework units (60%), research essay (40%)
Courses: R4A
Honours Research Essay
Enrolment code: HEA402
Offered: Hbt, sem 2; Ltn, sem 2
Special note: enrolment in this unit is compulsory for all English honours
students
Unit description: Topic and supervisor to be nominated by the student in
consultation with the School.
Staff: in consultation with School
Unit weight: 0%
Assess: 12,500-word research essay
Courses: R4A
Research Methodology and Writing
Enrolment code: HEA411
Offered: Hbt, sem 2; Ltnv, sem 2
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Special note: enrolment in this unit is compulsory for all English Honours
students
Unit description: This compulsory unit aims to develop students’ research
and writing skills to advanced levels, as is appropriate for fourth-year
(Honours) work in literary studies. Each of the staff teaching Honours English
will contribute to the teaching of the unit. The specific focus of work in the unit
will be on bibliographical methodologies, the practices of critical writing, the
stages of a research project, writing up the project and formatting the final
draft. Students will be assessed in three main areas, each worth a third of the
final result for this unit: an oral presentation about the field and methodology
of the long essay; a written bibliographical task and draft research essay
submissions.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 0%
Teaching: 1x2-hr seminar weekly
Assess: 5,000-word essay
Courses: R4A