Contents: Studying Literature
1. What is Literature?
Towards a definition
What are the features of a literary work?
Beliefs and values
Six poems
Weevilly Porridge, Eva Johnson
Yout Scene, Linton Kwesi Johnson
Challenging beliefs
To a Butterfly, William Wordsworth
Goodbye Worn Out Morris 1000, Pam Ayres
Edgar and Emma, Jane Austen
2. Reading Literary Texts
Texts as cultural artifacts
Song: Women are But Men's Shaddowes, Ben Johnson
Dominant and marginalised ideas
Reading practices
Challenging tradition
The Eagle, Lord Tennyson
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Phone Call, Berton Rouche
Readings
School, Peter Cowan
Analysing the construction of readings
3. Reading in terms of gender
Literature and power
The language of patriarchy
This is Australia
The Aim was Song, Robert Frost
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne
The Collector, John Fowles
Rapunzel, traditional
Re-reading the Text
The question of masculinity
The Essence of a Man, Alan Sullivan
New perspectives
Nice Men, Dorothy Byrne
Revisions
The Company of Wolves, Angela Carter
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