ENGL 335 Writing Project
Prescribed text(s)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham - to be confirmed
Prescribed unit materials
Course Reader for ENGL335
Recommended reading
- David Lodge, The Art of Fiction, London: Penguin Books, 1992.
- Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction, WW Norton, 2000.
- Kate Grenville & Sue Woolfe, Making Stories - How Ten Australian Novels Were Written, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993.
- Grammar Made Easy, Barbara Dykes, Sydney: Hale & Ironmonger, 1992.
- The Penguin Working with Words - an Australian Guide to Modern English Usage, general editor Barrie Hughes, Ringwood: Penguin, 1993.
Australian literary journals and magazines
- Going Down Swinging, HEAT, Southerly, Meanjin, Island, Overland, Australian Author, The Monthly, The Griffith Review, TEXT online. This list is suggestive only.
Narrative Technique and Studies
- Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.
- E.M. Foster, Aspects of the Novel, New York, Harcourt, Inc, (1927), 1985.
- Jack Hodgins, A Passion for Narrative, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1993.
- Gerard Genette, Narrative Discourse, Trans. Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1980.
- Edward Hirsch, How to Read A Poem - and fall in love with poetry, New York: Harcourt, Inc, 1999.
- J. Hoffman, & D. Murphy Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, (Eds), London: Leicester University Press, 1996.
- Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction, London: Routledge, 2nd edition 2002.
- Jago Morrison, Contemporary Fiction, London: Routledge, 2003.
- Tvetan Todorov, The Poetics of Prose, Trans. Richard Howard. Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1977.
- Brenda Walker, (Ed). The Writers' Reader, Sydney: Halstead. 2002