eng4al american literature
AMERICAN LITERATURE
ENG4AL
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Spanning from Harriet Beecher Stowe's pivotal anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cormac McCarthy's The Road, this subject will examine a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American poetry and prose. Students completing this subject will have an understanding of a wide range of important American genres and literary movements, and of some of the social and cultural contexts within which these works could be read
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorSofia Ahlberg
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 ofCreative Arts Honours degrees.
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjectsN/A
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | Absalom, absalom | Prescribed | Faulkner | N/A |
| Readings | Billy Budd and other stories | Prescribed | Melville | N/A |
| Readings | Howl | Prescribed | Ginzberg | N/A |
| Readings | Selected poems (in reader) | Prescribed | Plath, Whitman, Dickinson | N/A |
| Readings | The Crying of Lot 49 | Prescribed | Pynchon | N/A |
| Readings | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Prescribed | McCullers | N/A |
| Readings | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Prescribed | Stowe | N/A |
| Readings | Moon Palace | Preliminary | Auster, P. | N/A |
| Readings | The Road | Preliminary | McCarthy | N/A |
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