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Contemporary Australian poetry and fiction (ENH4370)
2010

Description

This unit will examine key innovations in contemporary Australian writing and criticism. In studying the fiction, questions of identity - national, gender, racial - will be raised, and the ways in which postmodern fiction interrogates the very concept of identity and destabilises existing definitions through a range of stylistic strategies will be explored.

Assessment

Two essays (2500 words; 30% each): 60%

Essay (4000 words): 40%

Other Details

Levels: Undergraduate - Honours
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