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English & Cultural Studies
Unit Co-ordinator
Associate Professor Ned Curthoys
Tutor and Guest Lecturer
Amy Hilhorst
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Contents
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Introduction
Unit Description
Learning Outcomes
Unit Rules
Contact Details
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UNIT DESCRIPTION
Introduction
Meaning & Medium, ENGL1401, is a level 1 unit (6 credit points) that you can study as
part of a degree-specific or second major in English and Cultural Studies;
a Category B broadening unit in the Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Science or
Bachelor of Design;
or as a level 1 elective.
Unit Description
This unit examines how the medium' of a text, its material form and its genre, is an
intrinsic part of its significance, the way it conveys meaning. Novels, poetry, feature
films, television shows, graphic novels, abstract art, interactive internet fiction, all
make different demands of their audiences depending on the medium in which they
are presented. Readers of these creative texts are often interested not just in what is
represented but in how a text innovates upon an existing genre or form, encouraging
them to participate in the construction of that text's meaning. By analysing a variety of
contemporary fiction, from novels to graphic novels and feature films, this unit
enables students to explore the proposition that the medium of a creative work is an
intrinsic part of its message', its capacity for imaginative expression.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit, you should be able to:
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understand the ways in which different media act and interact to produce meaning;
express ideas concisely and clearly in both oral and written formats;
Unit Rules
http://units.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/engl/engl1401
CONTACT DETAILS
Unit Contact
Unit Co-ordinators
name:
email:
ned.curthoys@uwa.edu.au
phone:
6488 2107
Room:
Arts G.38
consultation hours:
Tuesday 11-12pm
Tutor (Crawley)
name:
Amy Hilhorst
email:
Amy.hilhorst@research.uwa.edu.au
phone:
6488 2076
room:
consultation hours:
Arts 1.29
10am-11am Wednesday
Tutor (Albany)
name:
Dr Warren Flynn
email:
Warren.flynn@uwa.edu.au
phone:
room :
consultation hours:
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, 2010 (available from Crawley Co-op and Reid
High Demand)
Shaun Tan, The Arrival, 2006 (available from Crawley Co-op and Reid High Demand)
Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance, 2010 (available from Crawley Co-op and Reid High Demand)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, (Project Gutenberg E-Text version available
through UWA Information Services: enter through OneSearch, find the Project Gutenberg E-book
version, and read the html version online)
Online Series/Television Drama
House of Cards, series 1, Netflix, 2013 (copies in Reid High Demand)
Graphic Novel
Art Spiegelman, Maus, A Survivors Tale, vols 1 & 2 2003 (available from Crawley Co-op and
Reid High Demand)
Poetry
A selection of experimental poetry will be accessible through topic week 11 of the LMS site in
pdf documents.
Recommended Reading
Critical readings will be recommended through a range of sources including by individual lecturers
in the course of their presentations; through CMO [Course Materials Online]
http://www.is.uwa.edu.au/information-resources/cmo now available through OneSearch; through
documents or url links on the LMS unit. Students should make sure to check these places: we will
be looking at the range and quality of your reading when we evaluate your assessment.
Information Services
Please ensure that you are familiar with the Current Students page on the UWA website
http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/. You will find an introduction to Information Services at
http://www.is.uwa.edu.au/current-students and it is important that you are familiar with these
services.
We recommend that you visit the Subject Guides page at http://www.is.uwa.edu.au/currentstudents/guides where you will find the Subject Guide for English and Cultural Studies. The
Subject Guide is your introduction to research skills in your discipline and provides access to a
wide diversity of resources.
Lecture Topic
Lecturer
# &
date
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Feb
25 Feb
23
Mar
Tutorial
Topic
Introduction to ENGL1401:
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Narrative theory
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Writing Essays
Ned Curthoys
No tutorial
Introductory
tutorial
4 Mar
3 10
Mar
11 Mar
4 17
Mar
18 Mar
5 24
Mar
25 Mar
6 31
Mar
1 Apr
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Apr
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Inception
The Yellow
Wallpaper
House of
Cards
A Visit from
the Goon
Squad
No tutorial
8 Apr
8
14 Apr
15 Apr
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
No face to face
tutorial. ONLINE
POST &
DISCUSSION via
LMS forum in
topic week 7,
both posts
completed by
5pm Friday
17th April.
Instructions
20 Apr
24
9 27
Apr
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
28Apr
10 5
May
An introduction to Experimental
Poetry
Amy Hilhorst
6 May
11 12
May
13
May
12 19
May
20
May
13 26
May
27
May
No tutorial
Maus
The Arrival
Amy Hilhorst
Tony Hughes DAeth
Ned Curthoys
Tony Hughes-DAeth
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys
Ned Curthoys and
Amy Hilhorst
Experimental
Poetry
That
Deadman
Dance
Debate on
History
Tutorial,and
Reflective
Discussion
and Q and A
10
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*Spacey, Kevin. "House of Cards." Interview with Wolf Blitzer & Kate Bolduan.
February 1, 2013. (You tube clip embedded in LMS topic week 5).
(6) Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, 2010
*Kelly, Adam. Beginning with Postmodernism. Twentieth-Century Literature 57.3 &
57.4 (Fall/Winter 2011): 391-422.
*Mishra, Pankaj. Modernitys Undoing. Review of Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the
Goon Squad. London Review of Books 33:7 (31 March, 2011): 27-30. Print.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n07/pankaj-mishra/modernitys-undoing.
*McKenna, Max. Jennifer Egan and the New Heroism. Full Stop, 28 August 2012.
Web. http://www.full-stop.net/2012/08/28/features/essays/max-mckenna/jennifer-eganand-the-new-heroism/.
Williams, Jeffrey J. The plutocratic imagination . . . Review of A Visit From the Goon
Squad et al. Dissent 60.1 (2013): 93- 95. Print.
(9) Art Spiegelman, Maus. A Survivors Tale, Vols 1 & 2, 2003
*Chute, Hillary. The Shadow of a past Time: History and Graphic Representation in
Maus.Twentieth Century Literature 52: 2 (Summer, 2006): 199-230. Print.
Doherty, Thomas. "Art Spiegelman's Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust." American
Literature 68:1 (1996): 69-84.Print
Ewert, Jeanne. "Art Spiegelmans Maus and the Graphic Narrative." Narrative Across
Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. University of Nabraska
Press, 2004. 178-93. Print.
Hirsch, Marianne. "Family pictures: Maus, mourning, and post-memory." Discourse
(15.2 1992): 3-29.Print
Huyssen, Andreas. "Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno." New
German Critique 81 (2000): 65-82. Print
Levine, Michael G. "Necessary Stains: Spiegelman's Maus and the Bleeding of
History." American Imago 59.3 (2002): 317-341. Print.
*Rothberg, Michael, and Art Spiegelman. "We Were Talking Jewish: Art Spiegelman's
Maus as Holocaust" Production." Contemporary Literature 35:4 (Winter 1994): 661687. Print.
Art Spiegelman and Kevin Huizenga. TCJ Conversations 300. 7 Dec 2009. Web.
http://classic.tcj.com/tcj-300/tcj-300-conversations-art-spiegelman-kevin-huizenga/.
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Primary:
Ezra Pound "In a Station of the Metro"
William Carlos Williams "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Charles Bernstein "american boy with bat"
Toby Fitch "Valleys"
Omar Musa "The Old Rooster"
Queen Chan's "The Rooster" (Graphic adaptation, after Omar Musa)
Secondary:
"Conceptual Writing: A Modernist Issue" (Interview with Marjorie Perloff)
Robert Creeley "Was That a Real Poem or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself?"
Oscar Schwartz "A Turing Test for Poetry"
Charles Bernstein "The Truth in Versions"
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ASSESSMENT
Summary
Item
Due date
Weight
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15
Tutorial attendance
and participation;
2x300-word (10%)
online post on a
secondary reading in
week 8; in-class
debate in week 12.
Cumulative
20%
Wednesday 22 April
by 5pm, online
submission on LMS
40%
Examination
During formal
examination period
40%
Week 12 tutorials
Assessment Details
Tutorial attendance and participation. Students will be expected to attend tutorials and
participate in discussion.
The 2x300-word posts on LMS will encourage research skills and facilitate tutorial
discussion .
Marking criteria will be specified in the rubric for each piece of assessment.
The 2000 word critical essay should be submitted electronically through the LMS site
for 1401 Meaning and Medium by 5pm on Wednesday the 22nd of April. Submissions
after 5pm count as a day late.
Please note that any essays that are submitted late without an approved extension or valid
extenuating circumstances will receive a mark without extra comments on the marking
rubric.
Extension and late submission
To apply for assignment extensions a student should submit a Special Consideration
application to their Allocated Advising Student Office. Late submissions without special
consideration will incur a penalty of 2% per day. Assignments will not be accepted after the
end of the exam period unless a student has been granted an extension by their Allocated
Advising Student Office."
Assessment Criteria
For Critical Essay
Essays will be assessed according to the following criteria:
a) Engagement with topic does the essay demonstrate understanding of question
applied to the text concerned; does it show the strength and range of your ideas?
b) Structure design of argument i.e. does it develop logically and clearly?
c) Support of argument with reference to the primary text/texts does essay have the
right balance between analysis and evidence, i.e. it doesnt quote too much or too
little?
d) Presentation use of bibliography and referencing e.g. grammar, punctuation,
style and clarity of writing
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Criteria include:
Active involvement: participating constructively in discussion
Relevance: not straying off the topic
Engagement with ideas/ building on discussion: constructive, coherent responses to
ideas raised by other students
Listening attentively and respectfully
Preparation: evidence of having thought about material in light of ideas raised by
course and preparing relevant questions/discussion points before coming to class.
Improving Your Academic Writing and Research Skills
Highly Recommended!
The StudySmarter UWA workshops are free to UWA students and are an excellent
resource centre. There are three sets of resources: WRITESmart (writing, research
& study skills); mathsSmart (Maths & Stats) and GETsmart (Online resources).
Details are here: www.studysmarter.uwa.edu.au.
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