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ENGL102 Literature and Society

Updated: 10 August 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus
Online level Level D - Comp/internet essential
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
24 September 2009 26 September 2009 Non-Mandatory
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites None
Co-requisites None
Restrictions ENGL100
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Jennifer McDonell (jmcdonel@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

An introduction to the close reading and analysis of a selection of literary texts which engage with a range of cultural conflicts associated with the development of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The unit aims to give students the ability to read a variety of texts both in terms of their internal structure and in terms of the ways in which they engage with the social and political forces at work in the culture(s) they represent.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory
Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Heart of Darkness
ISBN: 9780141441672
Conrad, J., Penguin Classics
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Wuthering Heights
ISBN: 9780199535606
Bronte, E., Oxford
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Seven Centuries of Poetry in English
ISBN: 9780195514209
Leonard, J. (ed), OUP 5th ed. 2003
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society
ISBN: 9780631225690
Bennett, T., Grossman, L. and Morris, M. (eds), Wiley-Blackwell revised ed. 2005
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Things Fall Apart
ISBN: 9780393932195
Achebe, C., WW Norton and Co. 2009
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
   

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