Literary Studies: The Novel (11152.1)

Required texts

Required novels — you must read these

1.    Rachel Cusk, Outline, any edition

2.    Yukio Mishima, The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, trans. John Nathan (Penguin: 1964).

3.    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, any edition.

4.    Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, trans. Michael Hulse (Penguin: 1987) 

5.    Thomas More, Utopia trans. Dominic Baker Smith (Penguin, Harmondsworth: 2012); or the earlier Penguin edition trans. Paul Turner (Penguin, Harmondsworth: 1965).

Notes:

• ·       Our edition of the Mishima is available legally and for free as a pdf / kindle etc download at https://ia801206.us.archive.org/5/items/TheSailorWhoFellFromGraceWithTheSea_201607/The-Sailor-Who-Fell-From-Grace-with-the-Sea-Full-Text.pdf
• ·       There are free online versions of Pride and Prejudice, though the formatting can be very poor and the experience unpleasant—worth keeping in mind when reading a long book. Likewise, when it comes to the translations of Thomas More's Utopia, you are urged to obtain one of the two that I have listed above. There are other, 19^th century, versions available for free or very cheap online, but these translations are at times so bad that they are hard to understand.
• ·       All of these texts, in the right translation (where relevant) are available for $10-25 each from The School Locker. Their site for our unit is https://theschoollocker.com.au/catalog/category/view/id/8009
• ·       You will find copies of the Austen, Goethe and the More texts quite readily available second-hand. Good places to look would be Book Lore in Lyneham, Harry Hartog at ANU, Canty's Bookshop in Fyshwick and also Barry's Bookshop in Fyshwick.
• ·       There will be 2-3 library copies of each book on 3 hour and 3 day loan.

Learner engagement

See above

Inclusion and engagement

See above

Participation requirements

The subject will be delivered on campus through a series of 11 x 1 hour lectures and a series of 9 x 2 hour tutorials. The tutorials are student-led, in the sense that each tutorial revolves around student presentations of individual passages from the five books. The student's task is to link their chosen passage (no more than a page) to a passage in one of that week's tutorial readings. This sets the agenda for the discussion to follow. Tutorial readings include key works of literary theory or interpretation.

It is strongly advised that students attend all seminars and tutorials, though it is possible for students who cannot attend classes on campus to take assessment Option 2, which involves: 1) listening to the lectures on-line, 2) working through the 5 novels plus the weekly readings on their own and 3) performing a summarizing task in place of the oral presentation. It should be noted, however, that the novels and weekly readings are subject to extensive and close discussion in the tutorials: non-attendees will miss this vital input to their learning.

Required IT skills

Word processing, accessing and downloading readings from the readings page, uploading assignments in the correct format to Canvas

In-unit costs

Purchase of texts will cost approximately $52, if you purchase new copies from The School Locker (but numbers of the texts will be avaialable second hand).

Work placement, internships or practicums

None

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