Universität Wien

127012 KO Critical Readings in Literature (2025S)

A Sunburnt Country. Australian Literature.

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle
Fr 20.06. 16:15-17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Achtung Terminänderung

  • Friday 07.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 14.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 21.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 28.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 04.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 11.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 02.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 09.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 16.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 23.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 30.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 06.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 13.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 27.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar will aim to read Australia from multiple angles, trying to understand the vast diversity of the nation and its at times troubled history. Students will read from a variety of genres including poetry, prose, biography and letters. Student will gain tools essential in communicating their arguments in an academic manner.

Assessment and permitted materials

There will be bi-weekly presentations as well as feedback reports for the other students. Students will write a paper at the end of the semester. Class discussion will be an important factor.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Weekly Feedback & Discussion - 24%
Presentation - 25%
Written paper - 51%

Examination topics

Students will be expected to read all texts and encouraged to research topic areas. Group presentations will take place and grading will also consider in-class discussions, unique and independent thinking, and the ability to put forth academic arguments in class.
Students are expected to write a final paper.

Reading list

Bellanta, Melissa. Larrikins: A History. N.p., 2012. Web. <https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8v21y/larrikins-a-history>.
Boochani, Behrouz, and Omid Tofighian. No Friend but the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison. Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018.
Gunn, Jeannie. We of the Never-Never : The Australian Classic. 1. publ. in Arrow, Random House Australia, 1990.
Jefferis, Barbara. The Drover’s Wife (1980). In: Thieme, John. (ed.). The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London: Arnold, 1996. 265-272.
Kossew, S. (2003). Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203380680
Lawson, Henry (n.d.). The Drover’s Wife. Web. https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DrovWife.shtml
Patterson, Bango. Waltzing Matilda, N.p., n.d. Web. <https://trishansoz.com/trishansoz/waltzing-matilda/waltz.html>.
Pilkington, Doris, et al. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. University of Queensland Press, 2002.
Tranter, Bruce, and Jed Donoghue. “Ned Kelly.” Journal of Sociology 46.2 (2010): 187–205. Web. <https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783309355063>.

All literature will be provided on moodle.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BA08.3; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3000

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