eng4abn auto
AUTO/BIOGRAPHY: NARRATIVES OF THE SELF
ENG4ABN
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
It's a common misconception that autobiographies are simple facsimiles of real lives. In this subject, we explore autobiography as something more artful, complicated and powerful. We'll investigate autobiography as a performance, the ways the construction and publishing of autobiographical narrative shape, reify or constrain identity, the role of readers and anticipated readers in governing identity. We'lll investigate a range of texts from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in their cultural contexts and consider the "other" autobiographies, the ways we daily construct and broadcast our histories and selves.
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorAlexis Harley
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites Enrolment in either AHA-Bachelor of Arts Honours or AHCA-Bachelor of Creatvive Arts Honours.
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjects ENG5ABN
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
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Readings | An autobiography, | Prescribed | Frame, J. | GEORGE BRAZILLER |
Readings | Autobiographies, | Prescribed | Darwin, C. | PENGUIN |
Readings | Deprofundis and other writings, | Prescribed | Wilde, O. | PENGUIN |
Readings | Dora: an analysis of a case of hysteria, | Prescribed | Freud, S.D. | SIMON SCHUSTER |
Readings | Father and son, | Prescribed | Gosse, E. | PENGUIN |
Readings | Incidents in the life of a slave girl, | Prescribed | Jacobs, H. | DOVER |
Readings | Speak, memory, | Prescribed | Nabakov, V. | PENGUIN |
Readings | The confessions, | Prescribed | Rousseau, J.J. | PENGUIN |
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