Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Language Pedagogy
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CP1bE.03
- Title
- Australian Literature - 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
- · „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: a) Attendance, participation b) short presentation on a selected topic c) seminar paper (8-10 pages) d) in-class test
- Bibliography
- · 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