ENGLISH 221
New Zealand Literature
Please note: this is archived course information from 2023 for ENGLISH 221.
Description
Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.
For full course information see the Digital Course Outline for ENGLISH 221.
Digital Course Outlines are refreshed in November for the following year. Digital Course Outlines for courses to be offered for the first time may be published slightly later.
Availability 2023
Semester 1
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Tru Paraha
Reading/Texts
TBA
Recommended Reading
Terry Sturm ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature, 2nd ed. (Auckland: OUP, 1998)
Patrick Evans, The Long Forgetting (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2008)
Alex Calder, The Settler’s Plot: How Stories Take Place In New Zealand (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2011)
Tina Makereti, ‘Indigenous literary Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand’ (online: OUP, 2020)
Assessment
Coursework only
Points
ENGLISH 221: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage I in English
Restrictions
ENGLISH 355