MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ENH1091

The reader in history

Proposed to be offered next in 1997

H Love

6 points + 2.5 hours per week + Second semester + Caulfield + Prerequisites: ENH1011

Synopsis The premise of this subject is that an education in `English' is about learning to understand a variety of reading practices, and that these can be historically contextualised. The approach will be chronological, moving forward from practices that still have a strong oral component to present-day models of interpretive reading.

Assessment Exercise (1000 words): 20% + Essay (1500 words): 30% + Examination (2 hours): 40% + Attendance and participation: 10%

Prescribed texts

Bible: The Song of Songs (any edn)
Calvino I If on a winter's night a traveller
Leonard J (ed.)Seven centuries of poetry in English 2nd edn, OUP
James H The Aspern papers Penguin
Shakespeare The Tempest Penguin
Swift J A tale of a tub and other works World's Classics

Recommended texts

Appleyard J Becoming a reader CUP
Ong W Orality and literacy Routledge

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