Overview

This unit explores how postmodern practices and ideas can help students become more adventurous with their writing and with their experience of literature. It also examines how theoretical and cultural movements have impacted literary history and how these can be used as play in reading and writing. Techniques examined include sampling, collage, parody and pastiche, fragmented narratives, and stream of consciousness

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Demonstrate critical understanding of the relationship between postmodernism and writing
  • Critically evaluate postmodern literary theory in relation to set examples
  • Apply postmodern literary approaches through the process of writing

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online Contact (Phasing out)
Synchronous Lectures		1.00 12 weeks 12
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial		2.00 12 weeks 24
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Various		3.00 12 weeks 36
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		6.50 12 weeks 78
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Class PresentationIndividual 10% 1,2 
EssayIndividual 35% 1,2,3 
Written AssignmentIndividual 55% 1,3 

Content

  • Realism
  • Modernism
  • Postmodernism
  • Hyperreality and the Culture of Simulation
  • The Anxiety of Writing
  • Disputing Authorship/Ownership: re-mixes, cut-ups and appropriations
  • Labyrinths in Literature: non-linear and fragmented narratives
  • Theories of Creativity

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.