MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
ENH4760
Visions and revisions: reworkings
A Dilnot
12 Points + 2 hours per week + First semester + Clayton
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, as
will 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 Two seminar papers (1300 words): 15% each + Essay (2500
words): 30% + Essay (3500 words): 40%
Prescribed texts
- Barnes J A history of the world in 10 chapters Picador
- Bond E `Lear' in Plays two Methuen
- Bronte C Jane Eyre Oxford
- Byatt A S Possession Vintage
- Dabydeen D Turner Random House
- Dickens C Great expectations Penguin
- Dickens C The mystery of Edwin Drood Oxford
- Eliot T S Collected poems 190962 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
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