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The Novel - ARTS2038
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of English, Media and Performing Arts
 
 
Course Outline: School of English, Media and Performing Arts Courses
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit including 12 units of credit in Level 1 English or 6 units of credit in Level 1 Creative Writing; Excluded: ENGL2108 and ENGL2201
 
 
Excluded: ENGL2201
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Subject Area: English
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Creative Writing

The course introduces students to selected major English novels from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, considering how novels responded to the social contexts in which they were produced. We will explore novelists’ development of new techniques of literary realism and their adaptation of older narrative forms such as romance and epic. The course will include consideration of various formal features of the genre, and their use in creating narratives of self and society. Students will be encouraged to engage critically with arguments by historians and literary critics that the novel functioned as a vehicle for social, economic and national ideologies.

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