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Unit Code
Unit Title
HEA203 Writing Short Fiction
HEA205 Twenty-first-century Australian Writing
HEA206 Popular Fiction: From Page to Screen
HEA218 Contemporary Fiction
HEA220 Screen Shakespeare
HEA232 Postcolonial Fictions
HEA238 Reading The Canterbury Tales
HEA255 Confessionalism
HEA257 Nineteenth-Century British Literature
HEA283 Modernism in British Literature 1910-1930

2006  HEA213  Medieval and Gothic Fictions

Unit Level: Intermediate

Available as a Student Elective: Yes

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See also   HEA313

SPECIAL NOTE:  may be taken as a Gender Studies unit

OFFERINGS
Not Offered

DESCRIPTION

Examines the two related notions of 'medieval' and 'Gothic' as these terms are used to understand specific literary, historical and cultural fictions. The unit begins with invention of the Gothic in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and traces developments through mid-19th and 20th-century forms. The unit includes some versions of contemporary medieval and Gothic fiction in television and film media.

WEIGHT:  12.5%

ASSESSMENT: 3,000-word essay (60%), 2-hr exam (40%)

TEACHING PATTERN: 5x1-hr seminars fortnightly (13 wks)

REQUISITE INFO
Prereq 25% at level 100 in English
M.Excl HAF217/317

STAFF: Dr J Mead

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