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Title Required reading : literature in Australian schools since 1945 / edited by Tim Dolin, Jo Jones and Patricia Dowsett ; foreword by Rod Quin
Published Clayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Literary studies
Literary studies (Monash University Publishing)
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction -- ch. One Conditional assent: Literary value and the value of English as a subject / Patricia Dowsett -- ch. Two overview of the ALIAS data and findings / John Yiannakis -- ch. Three Discipline and subject: Academic literary studies and school English in Australia since 1945 / Patricia Dowsett -- pt. II Histories -- ch. Four Framing the Literature curriculum / Ian Reid -- ch. Five Inscribing culture: The history of prescribed text lists in senior secondary English in NSW, 1945 -- 1964 / Don Carter -- ch. Six Provenance and transformation: The history of prescribed text lists in senior secondary English in NSW, 1965 -- 2005 / Don Carter -- ch. Seven Literature at school in NSW: Some recent history / Wayne Sawyer -- ch. Eight Turning around English: Distant reading and rapid subject change from 1980 to 1995 / Jo Jones -- ch. Nine Changing the subject: Text selection and curriculum development in VCE English 1990 / Terry Hayes -- ch. Ten Carnivalesque canons: "Professors" and text selection in secondary English syllabuses in Western Australia, 1945 -- 1975 / Patricia Dowsett -- pt. III Texts, Authors, Periods, Theories -- ch. Eleven Shakespeare and the conditions of dissent / Jenny de Reuck -- ch. Twelve What the Dickens?: Exploring the role of canonical texts in mediating subject English in Australia / Larissa McLean Davies -- ch. Thirteen Growing up with Tess: Contexts, close reading and theoretical analysis / Alice Healy-Ingram -- ch. Fourteen Modernism and modernist criticism in Australian senior secondary English / Tim Dolin -- ch. Fifteen "One of the worst things you can do to it": The teaching of Judith Wright's poetry / Georgina Arnott -- ch. Sixteen conditions of assent and ascent: Cloudstreet as classroom classic / Claire Jones -- ch. Seventeen Literature's ghosts: Cultural heritage and cultural analysis in subject English / Tim Dolin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Reading (Secondary)
Literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Australian literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Reading (Secondary)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Dolin, Tim, 1959- editor.
Jones, Jo, editor
Dowsett, Patricia, editor
ISBN 9781925495591
1925495590
9781925495577
1925495574