MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ENM4760/5760

Visions and revisions: reworkings

Alan Dilnot

Synopsis This subject will examine some ways in which imaginative experience may be reworked. Reworkings include authorial self-revision, rejoinders, amplification, reinterpretation, indirect allusion and subversion. Factors in reworking, such as authorial bias, the spirit of the age, and movement from one genre or one art form to another will also be considered, and the element of reworking in translation. Postmodern and postcolonial factors in reworkings will receive particular attention. Half the texts are from the twentieth century, enabling students to view this period's literature as built upon earlier work, and to consider how contemporary sensibilities affect interpretation.

Assessment (8 points) Assignment/s (2500 words): 40% + Essay (3500 words): 60%

Assessment (12 points) Two seminar papers (1300 words): 15% each (a literary exercise of 1500 words may be substituted for one of the seminar papers) + Essay (2500 words): 30% + Essay (3500 words): 40%

Prescribed texts

• Barnes J A history of the world in ten chapters Picador
• Bond E `Lear' in Plays two Methuen
• Brontë C Jane EyreWorld's Classics
• Byatt A S Possession Vintage
• Dabydeen D Turner Random House
• Dickens C Great expectations Penguin
• Dickens C The mystery of Edwin Drood World's Classics
• Eliot T S Collected poems 1902-62 Faber
• Fowles J The Magus Picador
• Fowles J The French lieutenant's woman Picador
• Gaskell E North and South Penguin
• Harrison T Theatre works, 1973-1985 Penguin
• Lodge D Nice work Penguin
• Rhys J The wide Sargasso Sea Penguin
• Shakespeare W Hamlet Signet
• Shakespeare W King Lear Signet
• Shakespeare W Macbeth Signet
• Shakespeare W The Tempest Signet
• Stoppard T Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Faber
• Warner M Indigo Vintage