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Literature and the Political - ENGX108
Writers have always addressed political issues: supporting or resisting revolution, analysing the sophistries of political language, interrogating ideas of power embedded in gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality. Literary language can make available subversive and powerful critiques of dominant political structures and hierarchies just as it can normalise inequality and stifle dissent. Poets and novelists participate in the dissemination of myths, stereotypes and narratives that privilege certain world views over others. Covering writing from the Renaissance to the present, this unit explores how political issues are constructed in literary texts and investigates the aesthetic forms writers use to reflect, produce and contain change.
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| When Offered: | SP2 OUA - Study Period 2, offered through Open Universities Australia SP4 OUA - Study Period 4, offered through Open Universities Australia |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of English Faculty of Arts |