Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Australian Fiction

• Unit Code

  ENG3165

• Year

  2017

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

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Description

This unit introduces, from its inception, the creation of a specifically Australian narrative of settlement, colonialism, and the post-colonial nation. Unit content spans the 'Botany Bay' convict stories of the 18th century, popular fiction of bush and conquest in the 19th century, and finally 'other' versions of Australia constructed in contemporary literature by migrants and Aboriginal writers. The unit seeks both to set up and to critique Australian myths of nation and culture.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3052

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse the notion of a changing national identity as represented in Australian fiction.
2. Articulate dominant themes in Australian fiction.
3. Discuss the changing life experiences, ideas and challenges described and communicated by Australian writers, cross-culturally and internationally, from the nineteenth century through to the twenty-first century.
4. Identify the features that define Australian fiction as a distinctive national literature.

Unit Content

1. Concepts of, and the generation of ideas in, a changing national identity.
2. Literary and cross-cultural features of Australian fiction.
3. Nineteenth-century popular fiction
4. Notion itself of a national literature.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, individual research.

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.

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