Unit Code:	ENG2ALT
Alternative Unit Code:	ENG3ALT
Unit Short Title:	AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Credit Points:	20.0
Unit Description:	In this unit students focus on the emergence of new kinds of writings in the United States from the early decades of the century through to its close, with particular reference to modernist and postmodernist fiction. We will consider the kinds of challenges that have been made to conventional narrative and linguistic forms in the course of this century, examining the effects of contestations over notions of truth, history, and memory. In particular we will explore the relations between the old and the new, including between the traditional American canon and emerging literatures.
Prerequisites:	30 credit points of first-year English
Class Requirements:	one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 3,000-word essay	60
one 2,000-word essay	40	Third year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline specific skills in their written work than second year students.

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Prescribed	Nightwood	Barnes, D.	Faber.
Prescribed	Mao II	DeLillo, D.	Picador.
Prescribed	The book of Daniel	Doctorow, E.L.	Picador.
Prescribed	The crying of lot 49	Pynchon, T.	Picador.
Prescribed	The sound and the fury	Faulkner, W.	Norton
Prescribed	Quicksand and passing	Larsen, N.	Rutgers.
Prescribed	Beloved	Morrison, T.	Picador.
Prescribed	Invisible man	Ellison, R.	Penguin.

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
1   02-MAR-09   05-JUN-09	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Alison	Ravenscroft	BUNDOORA	Y