ENGL 6923

MA LITERARY CITIES 2003

The class will meet on Wednesdays, 5.15-7.15 pm: room to be announced.

The literary representations of the three cities will be considered in the order in which they appear below.

Sydney
(Dr Fiona Morrison)
For the first class (12 March), please read at least half of For Love Alone, discussion of which will resume in the second week.
Christina Stead, For Love Alone (ETT/ Imprint or other available edition)
Selection of poems and prose, to include Slessor’s Five Bells (to be made available in class)
David Williamson, Emerald City (Currency Press)

New Orleans
(Dr Bruce Gardiner)
G. W. Cable, Les Grandissimes (Univ of Georgia Press)
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Norton pb)
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer(Vintage pb)
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (Penguin)

London
(Professor Margaret Harris)
George Gissing, The Nether World (Oxford World’s Classic or any other edition)
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (any edition) — also a selection of ‘London’ poems will be made available in class
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (Penguin or other available edition)
 

Margaret Harris

9351-2163

margaret.harris@english.usyd.edu.au

January 2003
 

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