A subject of two to three 1-hour lectures and two 1-hour tutorials a week throughout the year, except for the proviso with regard to the drama elective below.
Prerequisite: English A or an approved equivalent.
SECTION A LITERATURE
Syllabus
A core course involving the study of nineteenth and twentieth century English poetry
and fiction as listed below, together with a study of one of the three electives — Australian Literature or American Literature or Modern Drama. (All external students in English B will study the Australian Literature segment.) There may be some informal work in school oriented areas such as creative writing and adolescent literature.
Books
Preliminary Reading:
Furst, L R Romanticism London: Methuen 1969
Leavis, F R New Bearings in English Poetry London: Chatto & Windus 1950 Leavis, F R Revaluation London: Chatto & Windus 1936
(Students are strongly advised to read the novels in the core course before lectures begin. Elective placement cannot be arranged until the beginning of the teaching year.)
Prescribed:
Poetry in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:
Price, M (ed) The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (The Oxford Anthology of English Literature part 3) New York: OUP 1973 (useful though not essential, but will be used later in English Cl
'Bloom H & Trilling, L (eds) Romantic Poetry and Prose (The Oxford Anthology of English Literature part 4) New York: OUP 1973
(The selections from Blake in this anthology need to be supplemented by the Penguin text below, and any student making a special study of Wordsworth, Coleridge or Keats should purchase the particular, more comprehensive volume listed below.) 'Blake, William Songs of Innocence and Experience Harmondsworth: Penguin Wordsworth, William Selected Poetry New York: Modem Library 1974 Coleridge, S T The Portable Coleridge New York: Viking 1961
Keats, John Complete Poetry and Selected Prose New York: Modem Library cl951 or
Barnard, J (ed) John Keats — The Complete Poems Harmondsworth: Penguin Bloom, H & Trilling, L (eds) Victorian Prose and Poetry (The Oxford Anthology of
English Literature part 5) New York: OUP 1973 Poetry in the twentieth century:
'Jeffares, A N Poems by W B Yeats London: Macmillan Educ 1974 'Eliot, T S Collected Poems 1909-1962 new edn London: Faber 1974 'Auden, W H Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957London: Faber 1966 Fiction — The nineteenth and twentieth century novel:
'Austen, Jane Persuasion Harmondsworth: Penguin 1970
'Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights London: Everyman Paperback 1975 'Dickens, Charles Bleak House Harmondsworth: Penguin 1971 'Eliot, George Middlemarch Harmondsworth: Penguin 1970 'Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'Urbervilles London: Papermac 1971 'Conrad, Joseph Victory Harmondsworth: Penguin 1970
'Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Harmondsworth: Penguin 1969 'Lawrence, D H Women In Love Harmondsworth: Penguin 1969
'Golding, William The Inheritors London: Faber 1973 Elective — Australian Literature:
This elective will cover the two hundred years of Australian poetry, fiction and drama through a study of key texts.
Preliminary Reading:
Serle, G From Deserts the Prophets Come Melbourne: Heinemann 1973 Prescribed:
'McAuley, J Map of Australian Verse Melbourne: OUP 1975
'Hope, A D Collected Poems Cremome (NSW): Angus and Robertson 1972 'Wright, Judith Collected Poems Cremome (NSW): Angus and Robertson 1971 'Matthews, B (ed) Henry Lawson — Selected Stories Kent Town (SA): Rigby t'Richardson, Henry Handel Australian Felix Ringwood (Vic): Penguin 1971
t'Stead, Christina The Man Who Loved Children Ringwood (Vic): Penguin 1975 t'White, Patrick The Tree of Man Ringwood (Vic): Penguin 1961
'Johnston, George My Brother Jack Sydney: Fontana 1964
'Keneally, Thomas The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith Ringwood (Vic): Penguin 1973 'Malouf, David Johnno Ringwood (Vic): Penguin 1976
'Hewett, Dorothy The Chapel Perilous Sydney: Currency Methuen 1972 'Williamson, David The Removalists Sydney: Currency Methuen 1972 'White, Patrick Four Plays South Melbourne: Sun Books 1967
Books marked with a dagger (t) will be given special study, but at least two of the other four works of fiction should be studied.
Elective — American Literature:
Preliminary Reading:
Cunliffe, M The Literature of the United States Harmondsworth: Penguin 1970 Prescribed:
'Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter New York: Signet 1960 'Melville, Herman Moby Dick Harmondsworth: Penguin 1972
'Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Harmondsworth: Penguin 1970 'James, Henry The Bostonians Harmondsworth: Penguin 1966
'Fitzgerald, F Scott The Great Gatsby Harmondsworth: Penguin 1969 'Faulkner, William Light in August Harmondsworth: Penguin 1960 'Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men Harmondsworth: Penguin 1949 'Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita London: Corgi 1961
'Bellow, Saul Herzog Harmondsworth: Penguin 1969 'Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass New York: Signet 1955 'Dickinson, Emily Selected Poems London: Heinemann 1973
'Raban, J (ed) Robert Lowell's Poems: A Selection London: Faber 1974
'Moore, G (ed) The Penguin Book of American Verse Harmondsworth: Penguin 1977 Elective — Modem Drama:
Note: This elective will be taught in a series of two-hour sessions.
Preliminary Reading:
Bentley, E (ed) The Theory of the Modern Stage Harmondsworth: Penguin 1968 Williams, R Drama from Ibsen to Brecht Harmondsworth: Penguin 1973 Prescribed:
'Ibsen, Henrik Ghosts Harmondsworth: Penguin 1964
*Strindberg, August The Dance of Death New York: Doubleday 1955 'Shaw, George Bernard Saint Joan Harmondsworth: Penguin 1946 'Eliot, T S Murder in the Cathedral London: Faber 1968
'Brecht, Bertolt The Life of Galileo London: Methuen 1963 'O'Neill, Eugene The Ice-man Cometh London: Cape 1966 'Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman Harmondsworth: Penguin 1961
'Williams, Tennessee A Streetcar Named Desire in Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays Harmondsworth: Penguin 1962
*Beckett, Samuel Endgame London: Faber 1958 'Pinter, Harold The Caretaker London: Methuen 1960
'Albee, Edward Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Harmondsworth: Penguin 1965 'Weiss, Peter Marat-Sade London: Calder & Boyars 1965
'Bond, Edward Lear London: Methuen 1972
'Anderson, Lindsay & Sherwin, David If ... Melbourne: L & S 1972 'Bergman, Ingmar Scenes from a Marriage New York: Bantam 1975
SECTION B LANGUAGE STUDIES
Syllabus
1. The language of literature.
2. Grammar, traditional and modem.
Books
Preliminary Reading:
Nowottny, W The Language Poets Use London: Athlone 1962 Palmer, F Grammar Harmondsworth: Penguin 1971
Prescribed:
Bailey, R F A Survival Kit for Writing English Hawthorn: Longman 1976 Assessment
Assessment will be based on tests, essays and class papers, and on examinations at the end of the year.
Additional information: Inquiries should be directed to Mr A N Cocks, room 526, ERC.