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Classic Australian Novels
Postgraduate | GRF-HUM705 | 2019
Course information for 2019 intake
View information for 2020 course intakeLeaf through some of Australia's most celebrated novels.Read Patrick White's Voss and Joseph Furphy's Such is Life. Analyse them thematically and stylistically. Perform background research into Australian literature's approach to genre and biography.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
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Classic Australian Novels
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- write clear and cogent literary criticism
- understand and think through complex ethical questions
- successfully undertake literary-historical research
- speak with some authority about the Australian literary tradition
- write and orally communicate effectively
- engage in intellectual reasoning at an improved level.
- Context, genre and biography
- Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life
- Joseph Furphy, Such is Life
- Henry Handel Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
- Patrick White, Voss
- The literary classic in Australia
This subject introduces you to four classic Australian novels (one of them a trilogy), providing some thematic, formal and stylistic analysis, situating each novel in its historical context and reflecting on the history of their reception in Australia and elsewhere.
- Take Home Exam (40%)
- Essay (30%)
- Online Discussion (30%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
GRF-HUM7405 (Not currently available)
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Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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