School Of Communication, Design And MediaContemporary WritingWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 63230.1
Discipline: WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
Students read a representative sample of contemporary texts from different cultural traditions (including Australia) and consider them within the wider paradigm of postmodernism. They examine some of the ways in which generic conventions have been transformed by theoretical strategies such as deconstruction. Through analysis of works that blur the distinction between fictional and non-fictional forms, the question of what constitutes literary discourse is posed.