ENH4370 - Contemporary Australian Poetry and Fiction

Leader: Michael Ackland

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will examine key innovations in contemporary Australian writing and criticism. In studying the fiction, questions of identity - national, gender, racial - will be raised, and the ways in which postmodern fiction interrogates the very concept of identity and destabilises existing definitions through a range of stylistic strategies will be explored.

Assessment

Two essays (2500 words; 30% each): 60%
Essay (4000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hour seminar per week