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The House of Fiction: Literary Realism (ENGL20025) // Further information
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Semester 2
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Prescribed texts
- Jane Austen, Emma (1815)
- George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871-2)
- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
- Patrick White, The Aunt’s Story (1948)
- Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac (1984)
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)
- Michelle de Kretser, The Life to Come (2017)
The subject reader may include critical and theoretical material from the following: Nancy Armstrong, Roland Barthes, Peter Brooks, Dorrit Cohn, Catherine Gallagher, Gérard Genette, Fredric Jameson, Claudia L. Johnson, F.R. Leavis, D.A. Miller, Franco Moretti, Naomi Schor, Ian Watt, Alex Woloch.
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Bachelor of Arts Course Graduate Diploma in Arts Course Graduate Certificate in Arts - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
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- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 11 April 2024