Discern the literary treatment of political and social concerns in Australian writing Appreciate A Fringe of Leaves The Conversations at Curlow Creek Jack Maggs Understand the development of the novel form in Australia To teach the critical terms required for the literary analysis of the postcolonial novel.īy the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: To examine the narrative techniques used by the three writers and to show these these as responses to the literary representation of Australia in colonial English literature To demonstrate convergences and divergences between the set texts To teach the most important thematic concerns of Patrick White, David Malouf, and Peter Carey Present three major novelists from Australia Other recommended texts may include: Patrick White - Voss David Malouf - An Imaginary Life Remembering Babylon Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang Randolph Stowe - Tourmaline Thomas Keneally - The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and A Family Madness. The following novels will be for detailed study: Patrick White's Fringe of Leaves (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics: 1993) David Malouf's The Conversations at Curlow Creek (Vintage: 1997) and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (Vintage: 1999). This study-unit examines the development of the Australian novel within the context of the British settlement of the land, the emergence of nationalism, the assertion of cultural independence, and contemporary concepts of identity. 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course
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