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.
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Alexis Harley
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: Enrolment in either AHA-Bachelor of Arts Honours or AHCA-Bachelor of Creatvive Arts Honours.
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: ENG5ABN
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |