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ENGL2654: Novel Worlds

2024 unit information

This unit of study explores the rise of novel reading in English as an educative, aesthetic and passionate practice from the 17th century to the present. The unit moves chronologically to examine how novels and the world came to be understood as mutually constitutive, how novels create and sustain attachments amongst their readers, how the genre of the novel became available for interrogations of national, gendered, racial, sexual and class identity, of liberty and intellectual emancipation, and of pleasure.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit English and Writing
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points in English
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. demonstrate critical and analytical skills in reading a range of novels from the 18th-century to the present
  • LO2. demonstrate basic knowledge of the aesthetic innovations and theories of the novel
  • LO3. analyse the broader significance of the novel in relation to its social worlds in a range of historical and geographic contexts
  • LO4. exhibit communication and argumentation skills through in-class activities and unit assessments
  • LO5. engage with peers in online spaces and the classroom in a constructive and responsible manner.
  • LO6. Develop skills across several modes of literary analysis and research

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2020
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2021
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2021
Normal day Remote
Semester 2 2022
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2022
Normal day Remote

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