Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Discovering Literature

• Unit Code

  ENG1140

• Year

  2016

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  3

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

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Description

This unit introduces poetry and fiction in their historical contexts from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries, exploring the time and place of both literary works and authors, to teach the basic principles of research. Social sustainability is considered within the fictional contexts of both the classic novel and the modern one. The unit considers why, despite all modern technologies, people still love to read literature.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG1109

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse and debate the principal types of poetry and fiction in terms of their forms, themes, and other characteristics and relate these to the cross-cultural and international factors determining their development.
2. Apply appropriate critical, analytical, and interpretative skills in the study of poetry and fiction.
3. Identify the principal components of literature.
4. Identify the relationship between specific texts and their historical, social, and cultural/international contexts.
5. Read and analyse literature with enhanced critical understanding.

Unit Content

1. A range of analytical approaches.
2. Critical use of secondary sources.
3. Poetry and fiction as social comment.
4. The development of poetry and fiction.
5. The forms of poetry and fiction.
6. The historical and social contexts of poetry and fiction.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

• Birch, D. (2009). The Oxford companion to English literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Bressler, C.E. (2011). Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. New York: Longman Inc.

• Eagleton, T. (2013). How to Read Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press.

   
• Gelber, M.W. (2002). The just and the lively: The literary critics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Hart, R.P. & Daughton, S.M. (2005). Modern rhetorical criticism. Pearson: Allyn & Bacon.
• Lane, R. L. (2006). Fifty Key Literary Theorists. London: Routledge.
• Poplawski, P. (Ed.). (2008). English literature in context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Plett, H.F. (2010). Literary Rhetoric: Concepts-Structures-Analyses. Boston: Brill.
• Van der Vlies, A. E.  (2010). Coetzee’s Disgrace. London: Continuum.
• ^ Hardy, T. (1895). Jude the obscure.
• ^ Coetzee, J.M. (2009). Disgrace. (Novella, 144 pages). London: Vintage.
• ^ Madden, D. (2006). A pocketful of prose: Vintage short fiction. (Volume One). Wadsworth: Cengage Learning.
• ^ Madden, D. (2006). A pocketful of poems: Vintage verse. (Volume One). Wadsworth: Cengage Learning.
• ^ Abrams, M.H. (2010). A glossary of literary terms. (Paperback). (6th ed.). New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston.
• Price, L. (2000). The anthology and the rise of the novel from Richardson to George Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Waugh, P. (2006). Literary theory and criticism: An Oxford guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Website References

• Literature in general: http://www.csupomona.edu/~library/websites/englit.html
• Linked to the textbook, Literature: Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama: http://MyLiteratureLab.com
• Literary Sources on Victorian Literature: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html
• Victorian Web: http://www.victorianweb.org/
• Literary Criticism and Theory: http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/

^ Mandatory reference

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