Course

Literary Animals, Monsters and Machines - ARTS3049

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: 24 units of credit in either the English, Environmental Humanities or Media, Culture and Technology streams

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Subject Area: English
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Environmental Humanities, Media, Culture and Technology

Widespread in the humanities at the moment is a rethinking of what it means to be human. This course will look at how literature and film use the nonhuman subjectivity of animals, monsters and machines to shape our understanding of the human. By examining the changing presentation of animals, monsters and machines in a range of texts from the seventeenth century through to the beginning of the twenty first century, the course will show how aesthetic practices such as literature and film extend and test our sympathetic imagination by allowing us to inhabit subject positions that we are normally unable to inhabit. Students taking the course will develop a sense of the ethical, social, political and philosophical value of literature and film.


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