1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Library, 1979
Buell, L. Literary Transcendentalism Style and Vision in the
American Renaissance. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1973
Cunliffe, M. The Literature of the United States. 4th edn, New
York, Penguin, 1986
Matthiesson, F.O. American Renaissance. London, Oxford
University Press, 1977
Thorp, W. American Writing in the 20th Catu ry. Ann Arbor,
Michigan University Microfilms International, 1986
AL304 Cross-Cultural Perspectives
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: two stage two
literature subjects or approved equivalents
Assessment: essay, class paper, examination, class
contribution
A subject in the Bachelor of Arts
Objectives and Content
The subject seeks to explore, by a close analysis of
significant texts of cross-cultural encounters, the ways in
which different cultures have sought to explain and interpret
each other by thinking about and interacting with each
other. It focuses on non-English writers from mainly India,
Africa and the Caribbean and their creative manipulation of
the English language to comment on their own traditions
and history, or to interpret the interaction between Eastern!
African and Western cultures and values.
*AL306 Renaissance Literary Culture
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: two stage two
literature subjects or approved equivalents
Assessment: continuous
A subject in the Bachelor of Arts
Objectives and Content
The principal aim of this subject is to critically investigate
the ways in which we read and interpret the literature of the
renaissance. Not losing sight of our position as late
twentieth century readers, this subject explores the place
that literature occupied within Renaissance culture as a
whole. Drawing on contemporary theoretical models, it
seeks to relate the historical phenomenon of the renaissance
to the modern/postmodern debate.
Recommended reading
Healy, T. New Latitudes. Theory and English Renaissance
Literature. London, Edward Arnold, 1992
*Not available to students who have previously passed
3 AL203 Renaissance Literature.
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AL307 Australian Literature
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3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: two stage two
literature subjects or approved equivalents Assessment: essay,
class paper and examination; class contribution
A subject in the Bachelor of Arts
Objectives and Content
A study of the development of the novel, the short story
and poetry in Australia from the nineteenth century to the
present day. Comparisons will be invited between filmic and
written texts, as well as a play reading. Students will make
an oral presentation reviewing a text that is not set for
study, and keep a journal as record/preparation for class
discussions. Classes will be discussion based.
Recommended reading
Eagleton, T. Literary Theoly An Introduction. Oxford, Blackwell,
1983
Hergenhan, L. (ed.) The Penguin New Literary Histo ry of Australia.
Ringwood, Penguin, 1988
Hughes, R. 7le Fatal Shore. London, Collins Harvill, 1987
Other stage three Literature subjects AIM3 10 & ALM3 12
are listed in alpha-numeric code order on page 240.
AL400 Reading and Writing Seminar
2 hours per fortnight over two semesters Hawthorn
Prerequisite: Bachelor of Business Assessment: folio and
participation in seminars and workshops
Subject in the Graduate Diploma in Writing
Objectives and Content
The aim of this subject is to present students with a wide
variety of options in writing and its production, together
with a time and a place to explore in greater depth elements
of the elective subjects which are of special interest to them.
Seminars may take a variety of forms, from 'Writers'
Reading' sessions in which-original work is presented, to the
formal and informal seminar, the writers' workshop, ..
the
element of dramatic performance. As part of their course
students will be encouraged to attend and report on public
functions such as the Melbourne Writers' Festival and
participate in community arts events, e.g. open reading at
various Melbourne venues. It is envisaged that students will
produce a collection of their writing as part of the year's
activities.
Recommended reading
Daniel, H. (ed.) Expressway. Ringwood, Penguin, 1989
Daniel, H. (ed.) Millennium. Ringwood, Penguin, 1991
AL401 Writing Projed
2 hours per fortnight over two semestws Hawthorn
Prequisite: (or corequisite for full-time students) AL400
Reading and Writing Seminar Assessment: an extended
piece of writing and workshop participation
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Writing
Objectives and Content
This subject provides students with the opportunity to work
on an extended piece of writing in an atmosphere of
support, encouragement and mutual critical advice. It allows
for expansion and elaboration of themes encountered in
previous writing subjects, with an anticipated outcome being
'finding one's own voice'. A series of workshops will
provide the basis for the evolution of the longer work out of
preliminary drafts.
Recommended reading
Grenville, K. The Writing Book. A Workbook for Fiction Writers.
Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1990
ALM series subjects be &gin on the next page