eng2wab writing autobiography
WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ENG2WAB
2014
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In Writing Autobiography, we conduct interlinked experiments in writing and, importantly, reading autobiography. Students read and interrogate a range of texts (some explicitly autobiographical and others testing the genre's boundaries). They are encouraged to engage critically with taken-for-granted ideas about autobiography, including: the idea of the author's clear-cut relationship to the autobiographical narrative; ideas about authenticity and the rhetoric of authenticity; ideas about the relationship between bodies, places and identity; the sensorium and poetic modes; humanness and memory; pasts and presents. Students will attempt writing beyond the constraints of common assumptions about both writing and being, and they will consider new possibilities for writing about the self, or even against the idea of the self.
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorRebecca Waese
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 2 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites 15 credit points of 1st year-year English or HUS1PWR
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjects ENG3WAB
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
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Readings | Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre | Prescribed | Schlunke, Katrina | N/A |
Readings | Running in the Family | Prescribed | Michael Ondaatje | BLOOMSBURY OR OTHER |
Readings | Toast | Prescribed | Nigel Slater | HARPER COLLINS |
Readings | Towards Another Summer | Prescribed | Frame, Janet | N/A |
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Melbourne, 2014, Semester 1, Day
Overview
Online enrolmentYes
Maximum enrolment sizeN/A
Enrolment information
Subject Instance Co-ordinatorRebecca Waese
Class requirements
SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.
LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours lecture per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.
Directed ReadingWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours directed reading per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via online.
Assessments
Assessment element | Comments | % |
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Critical essay: 2000 words | 50 | |
Critical essay: 2000 words | 50 |