Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CI12bE.01
- Title
- Elective CI Specialisation Seminar - Theory and Analysis: Introduction to Australian literature and Culture
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 6
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- This course aims to: provide an overview of the main aspects of Australian literature and culture show the variety of literary output in Australia against the backdrop of the main historical and cultural events teach students some text analysis skills problematise Australia as a postcolonial country
- Course content
- Course content: „Australia” poems Traditional Aboriginal Society, Aboriginal Literature Colonial society, 19th c. literature Travelogues Baynton, Lawson and the Bulletin school Versions of the „Drover’s Wife” Stolen Generations Multiculturalism in Australia, short stories by migrants Gallipoli, ANZAC in contemporary society Patrick White, Peter Carey Women writers (Elizabeth Jolley, Kate Grenville) Postcolonial writing
- Assessment method
- Assessment of the course will be based on: Attendance, participation short presentation on a selected topic seminar paper (8-10 pages) in-class test
- Bibliography
- Reading (viewing) assignments include: Carey, Peter. „American Dreams.” Fat Man in History. London: Faber & Faber, 1991. Clarke, Marcus. For the Term of His Natural Life. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1992. Grenville, Kate. Secret River. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2005. Jolley, Elizabeth. Various short stories. Lawson, Henry. Short Stories. Morgan, Sally. My Place. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987. Seymour, Alan. One Day of the Year. In Three Australian Plays, ed. by Alrene Sykes. Ringwood: Penguin, 1990. White, Patrick. „Down at the Dump.” The Cockatoos. London: Penguin Books, 1978. Poems by A.D Hope, Bernard O’Dowd, Dorothea McKellar, Kevin Gilbert, Ania Walwicz