LLC4000(H) - Writing Worlds: The Novel from Cervantes to Calvino

Leader: Philip Anderson, Stewart King and Susanna Scarparo

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores links between the novel and the historicity of the modern period and therefore of modernity. The progression of this unit is therefore historical but not in the traditional sense of that term. We begin with the seventeen-century novel, Don Quixote, and progress to the 20th century, but not to provide an evolutionary view of the novel. Instead, we explore the novel as representation and the specific relationship between the novel and both fiction and narrative. By looking at select integral categories of the novel (metafiction, history, gender, class, ethnicity, self and other), we seek to understand each of these categories individually and as part of the novel genre.

Objectives

On completion, students will be able to:
1a understand issues dealing with narrative theory and practice.
1b discuss issues dealing with narrative theory and practice.
1c analyse issues dealing with narrative theory and practice.
2a develop a relative understanding of historical and cultural contexts in relation to the above.
2b express a relative understanding of historical and cultural contexts in relation to the above.
3 develop an understanding and application of modes of textual analysis.
4. Develop oral and written skills in exposition, analysis and argumentation.

Assessment

Seminar presentation (3,000 words): 30%, Two essays (3,000 words each): 30% each, Seminar participation: 10%

Contact hours

24 hours per week divided as follows:

Prerequisites

Any third-year sequence in any program within the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.