Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Lee O'Brien
Contact via lee.obrien@mq.edu.au
Australian Hearing Hub, level 2
Monday 3-4pm
Gai Ramesh
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
The relationship between politics and literature is never simple. Writers have always addressed political issues: supporting or resisting revolution, analysing the ethics of war or the sophistries of political language, interrogating ideas of power embedded in gender, class, ethnicity, industrialisation and sexuality. Literary language can make available subversive and powerful critiques of dominant political structures and hierarchies just as it can normalise inequality and stifle dissent. Poets and novelists participate in the dissemination of myths, stereotypes and narratives that privilege certain worldviews over others. Covering writing from the Renaissance to the present this unit addresses a series of political issues as they are constructed in literary texts, and looks at the aesthetic forms writers invent and deploy in order to reflect, produce and contain change.
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Late submission of written work without prior approval and relevant supporting documentation will attract a penalty of 2% per day (including weekends). If you have a legitimate reason for being unable to submit your work on time, contact your tutor to discuss an extension (before the due date). Do not hesitate to speak to your tutor if you are having difficulties.
Essays more than 10% over or under length will attract a penalty – please be mindful of the word length. The word count includes all footnotes, but not the bibliography or works cited.
For a detailed chart of 100 level grade descriptors, please see unit's iLearn site.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Analysis/practical criticism | 10% | No | 21 August |
Essay 1 | 30% | No | 3 October |
Essay 2 | 40% | No | 8 November |
Tutorial Participation | 20% | No | Each teaching week of semester |
Due: 21 August
Weighting: 10%
Brief analytical exercise: a diagnostic tool to give students early warning should they have problems with literary analysis/argumentation, 650 words
Due: 3 October
Weighting: 30%
Research/critical essay, 1000 words
Due: 8 November
Weighting: 40%
Research/critical essay, 2000 words
Due: Each teaching week of semester
Weighting: 20%
Active participation in class discussion throughout semester.
Students attend one lecture and one tutorial per week. Lectures and tutorials begin in week one. For lecture times and tutorial rooms please consult the MQ Timetable website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au. This website will display up-to-date information on your classes and tutorial room locations.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818/1831)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children”; “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1843, 1848/50)
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Christos Tsiolkas, Loaded (1995)
William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (1594)
Revolutionary Poetry, a selection of 4 sonnets
Joe Weisberg, The Americans, season 1 (2013); if you choose to write on The Americans you must write on at least 2 episodes of season 1.
Chris Kraus, I Love Dick (1997)
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688)
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/91)
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (the novel 1996; David Benioff, D.B Weiss, season 1, 2011). If you choose to write on A Game of Thrones you must write on at least 2 episodes of season 1, or the novel, or a combination of both.
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