Course

The Novel - ARTS2038

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of the Arts and Media

Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1

Excluded: ENGL2201

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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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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