School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies ENGL 445 Special topic Contemporary Canadian and Fiction Semester One 2007

Course coordinator: Mark Williams Office: VZ 911 Office hour: Mon 2-3 or by arrangement Phone: 463 6810; 0210690434 Email: [email protected]

Classes

Classes will usually be held on Tuesday afternoon 1.00-4.00 in VZ808. Additional information for all honours classes can be found on the honours noticeboard, 8th floor VZ.

Texts

Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost (Picador) Carol Shields, Unless (HarperCollins): Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (Random House); Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women (Vintage); Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner’s Luck (Victoria University Press); Damien Wilkins, Chemistry (Victoria University Press); Patricia Grace, Cousins (Penguin); , Hicksville (Drawn and Quarterly)

Aims and Objectives

This is a seminar course in which students are expected to present to the class their researches into a selection of fiction since 1990 from Canada and New Zealand. Students will be encouraged to:

Consider a range of fictional kinds including, historical fiction, the graphic novel, a short story sequence,

Ask what it means to talk about literature in national terms and consider the global and local contexts of literature

Ask whether the different cultural models multiculturalism and biculturalism have any bearing on the production of literature

consider the critical contexts in which those texts have been interpreted and adopt their own critical stances towards the texts and towards existing criticism

Mandatory Course Requirements

(i) As in all English Department courses, 70% attendance is required. (ii) Students will be asked to participate in the preparation and presentation of seminars. (iii) Students will complete two essays (see note under assessment below).

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Assessment Assessment has been structured to help students meet the objectives of the course, covering a range of skills including close evaluation of texts and the consideration of cultural and historical background and secondary criticism. Assessment is by a combination of 60% internal work and 40% exam. The internal work consists of two essays. The first (see topics A below) is 3000 words in length, worth 30% of the total, and is due 5 April. The second (see topics B below) is 3000 words in length, worth 30% of the total, and is due 1 June (at the end of the course). Essays late without an extension will be penalised by 5% and will be returned with minimal comments. The exam will be three hours in duration, and its format will be discussed with the class towards the end of the course.

Workloads

It has been recommended that in order to maintain a satisfactory progress in a four-paper honours course of a single semester duration, students should give 24 hours to the course per week, including class contacts hours and time spent reading primary texts.

Seminar Timetable

Week 1. 27 February Introduction: (1) Why Canada and New Zealand? (2) New Zealand since the bone people

Week 2. 6 March Cousins

Week 3. 13 March Cousins

Week 4. 20 March The Vintner’s Luck

Week 5. 27 March Chemistry

Week 6. 3 April Hicksville

FIRST ESSAY DUE 5 April

Mid-semester break

Week 7. 24 April Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 Lives of Girls and Women

Week 8. 1 May Lives of Girls and Women & Hicksville

Week 9. 8 May Alias Grace

Week 10. 15 May Alias Grace

Week 11. 22 May Unless

Week 12. 29 May Anil’s Ghost

SECOND ESSAY DUE 1 June

ESSAY TOPICS

Essay One: Due 5 April. Length 3000 words

Topics A: New Zealand Novels

Choose one of the following:

1) In 1969 Bill Pearson predicted that when Maori fiction arrived it was ‘likely to be free of the doubt and hesitancy and self-interrogation that can inhibit a Pakeha writer’ (Essays on New Zealand Literature, ed W. Curnow, p. 137). In what ways is Maori fiction different from that by Pakeha? You may focus on Cousins alone or on a selection of Maori fiction. 2) Argue for or against Patrick Evans’s remarks on Chemistry and/or The Vintner’s Luck in his “Spectacular Babies” essay. You may focus your discussion on globalization or the Wellington School. 3) Discuss the differences between any Maori Renaissance novel from 1980s with one of the novels in this course. 4) Has the preoccupation with culture in New Zealand in the 1980s and ‘90s been a debilitating or a liberating influence? You may focus your answer on one or more of the novels you have studied in this part of the course. 5) “If there are places where expressions of who we are do not quintessentially involve the natural world, New Zealand is not one of them” (Alex Calder). Discuss the relations between nature and national identity in any of the novels you have studied in this part of the course. 6) “New artforms bring new aesthetic paradigms. Those who fail to recognise this tend to miss the point of the work altogether, dismissing it as frivolous, bad or even dangerous.” Use this statement from Dylan Horrocks’ essay, ‘The Perfect Planet’ (Writing at the Edge of the Universe) as the basis to a discussion of either: Hicksville; or: the comic and/or graphic novel in New Zealand; or: the response to Maori writing. Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 7) Use one of the following passages as the basis to a discussion of either the novel from which it derives or a general discussion of some theme or issue that involves two or more of the novels in this course:

a) He punched her in the face, he kicked her in the stomach and the head. He threw her against walls. He beat the shit out of her Chemistry, p. 153

b) You headed for Hicksville? Hicksville

c) Some wine tour from the South Pacific – beefy, tanned, expansive people who seem to have a clue or two about the vineyard. The Vintner’s Luck, p. 237.

d) Everything new belongs to us too. Cousins, p. 235

Essay II: Due 1 June. Length 3000 words

Topics B: Canadian Novels and Comparative Questions

Choose one of the following:

1) In Anil’s Ghost Anil must reconstruct history by way of the bodies of its victims, yet the body is also a source of pleasure and beauty in the novel. Discuss the treatment of the body in Ondaatje’s novel. You may compare Anil’s Ghost to any other text in this course. 2) Diana Brydon has observed: “Globalization is not leading to homogenization but to an increased awareness of … cultural difference.” Use this statement as the basis to a comparison of one New Zealand and one Canadian novel from this course. 3) Nationalism is the least interesting way of approaching a novel. Discuss with reference to any one or more of the novels in this course. 4) John Moss closes his 1974 Patterns of Isolation in English Canadian Fiction thus:

patterns of isolation in Canadian fiction provide one of a number of its distinguishing characteristics. Whether they display concepts of exile or express what I have called the geophysical imagination or, ... arise from the ironic conflicts of individual consciousness, they equally reflect the progress of Canadian imagination towards a positive identity. An examination of other patterns might reveal as much about the processes of our emergence into national being.

Do the Canadian novels you have studied in this course reflect a specifically Canadian imagination or demonstrate the achievement of a positive national identity? You may choose to make a comparison with one or more of the New Zealand novels in this course. 5) Consider Lives of Girls and Women as a ‘portrait of the artist’ as a young woman. 6) Use one of the following passages as the basis to a discussion of either the novel from which it derives or a general discussion of some theme or issue that involves two or more of the novels in this course:

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a) The conjugation and (sometimes) adverb unless, with its elegiac undertones, is a term used in logic, a word breathed by the hopeful or by writers of fiction wanting to prise open the crusted world and reveal another plane of being, which is similar in its geographical particulars and peopled by those who resemble ourselves. Unless, p. 208.

b) The Pattern of this quilt is called the Tree of Paradise, and whoever named that pattern said better than she knew, as the Bible does not say Trees. It says there were two different trees, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge; but I believe there was only one, and that the Fruit of life and the Fruit of Good and Evil were the same. And if you ate of it you would die, but if you didn’t eat of it you would die also; although if you did eat of it, you would be less bone-ignorant by the time you got around to your death. Alias Grace, pp. 533-4.

c) I was bloated and giddy with revelations of evil, of its versatility and grand invention and horrific playfulness. But the nearer I got to our house the more this vision faded. Why was it that the plain back wall of home, the pale chipped brick, the cement platform outside the kitchen door, washtubs hanging on nails, the pump, the lilac bush with brown- spotted leaves, should make it seem doubtful that a woman would really send her husband’s torso, wrapped in Christmas paper, by mail to his girl friend in South Carolina? ‘The Flats Road’, Lives of Girls and Women

d) He turned away from every person who stood up for a war. Or the principle of one’s land, or pride of ownership, or even personal rights. All of these motives ended up somehow in the arms of careless power. One was no worse and no better than the enemy. He believed only in the mothers sleeping against their children, the great sexuality of spirit in them, the sexuality of care, so the children would be confident and safe during the night. Anil’s Ghost

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Select Bibliography

1) Canadian General: +Brydon, Diana. “Postcolonialism Now: Autonomy, Cosmopolitanism, and Diaspora.” University of Toronto Quarterly, 73:2 (Spring 2004): 691-706. +Brydon, Diana. “One Poem Town? Contemporary Canadian Cultural Debates.” In Marc Maufort and Jean-Pierre van Nopen, eds. Voices of Power: Co-Operation and Conflict in English Language and Literatures. Liège: L3-Liège Language and Literature, for Belgian Association of Anglists in Higher Education, 1997: 211-20. Brydon, Diana. “Brydon, Diana: “The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy” In Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995: 136-42. Findlay, L. M. “Interdisciplining Canada: ““Cause Breaking Up Is Hard to Do’” Essays on Canadian Writing, 65 (Fall 1998): 1-15. Howells, Coral Ann. Contemporary Canadian women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities. New York: Palgrave, 2003. Howells, Coral Ann. “Introduction.” In Coral Ann Howells, ed. Where Are the Voices Coming From? Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2004. Keith, W. J.: “Blight in the Bush Garden: Twenty Years of “CanLit.’” Essays on Canadian Writing, 71 (Fall 2000): 71-78. Moss, Laura, ed. Is Canada Postcolonial?: Unsettling Canadian Literature. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. New, William H. A History of Canadian Literature. 2nd ed. Montreal; Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. New, William. H. Dreams of Speech and Violence: The Art of the Short Story in Canada and New Zealand. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Williams, David. Confessional Fictions: A Portrait of the Artist in the Canadian Novel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Wylie, Herb. Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.

2) New Zealand General: Crane, Ralph and Anna Johnston, eds. “A Symposium on New Zealand Literature.” New Literatures Review, 41 (Apr 2004): 1-63 (Special section.). Heim, Otto. Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary Maori Fiction. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998. Williams, Mark. Leaving the Highway: Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1990. Williams, Mark, ed. Writing at the Edge of the Universe: Essays Arising from the “Creative Writing in New Zealand’ Conference, University of Canterbury, August 2003. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004. Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 Williams, Mark and Michele Leggott. Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995. Williams, Mark. “Crippled by Geography: New Zealand Nationalisms.” In Not on Any Map: Essays on Postcoloniality and Cultural Nationalism, edited by Stuart Murray. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1997: 19-42. +Williams, Mark. “On the Discriminations of Postcolonialism in Australia and New Zealand.” University of Toronto Quarterly, 73, no 2 (Spring 2004): 739-53. Wilson, Janet. "Intertextual Strategies: Reinventing the Myths of Aotearoa in Contemporary New Zealand Fiction." In Klooss, Wolfgang, ed. and introd. Across the Lines: Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998: 271-90. +Wilson, Janet. “Distance and the Rediscovery of Identity in Recent New Zealand Literature.” In Gerhard Stilz, ed. Colonies, Missions, Cultures in the English Speaking World: General and Comparative Studies. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001: 307-17. Wevers, Lydia and Mark Williams. “Going Mad Without Noticing.” Landfall 204 (Spring 2002): 15-18.

2) Individual authors:

Patricia Grace Bardolph, Jacqueline. ““A Way of Talking’: A Way of Seeing: The Short Stories of Patricia Grace.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 12:2 (Spring 1990): 29-39. Beston, John B. “The Fiction of Patricia Grace.” ARIEL, 15:2 (Apr 1984): 41-53. Caffin, Elizabeth. “Jane Austen’s Unlikely Sister.” New Zealand Books, 2:3 (1992): 4-5. DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. “The Spiral Temporality of Patricia Grace’s “Potiki.’” ARIEL, 30:1 (Jan 1999): 59-83. Dickinson, Peter. ““Orality in Literacy’: Listening to Indigenous Writing.” Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 14:2 (1994): 319-40. Durix, Jean-Pierre. “The Breath of Life/Stories: Patricia Grace’s Potiki.” In Marc Delrez and Benedicte Ledent, eds. The Contact and the Culmination. Liège, Belgium: L3-Liège Language and Literature, 1997: 281-92. Durix, Jean-Pierre. “The Modernity of Maori Tradition: Patricia Grace’s Potiki.” In Gilbert Debusscher and Marc Maufort, eds. “Union in Partition”: Essays in Honour of Jeanne Delbaere. Liège, Belgium: L3-Liège Language and Literature, 1997: 241-53. Fuchs, Miriam. “Reading toward the Indigenous Pacific: Patricia Grace’s Potiki, A Case Study.” Boundary 2, 21:1 (Spring 1994): 165-84. Gordon, Elizabeth and Mark Williams. “Raids on the Articulate: Code-Switching, Style-Shifting and Post-Colonial Writing’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 33, no. 2 (1998): 75-96. Heim, Otto. “Traditions of Guardianship in Maori Literature.” In Gerhard Stiltz, ed. Colonies, Missions, Cultures in the English Speaking World: General and Comparative Studies. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001: 299-306. [book on order] Hereniko, Vilsoni: “An Interview with Patricia Grace.” In Vilsoni Hereniko and Rob Wilson, eds. Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999: 75-83. Keown, Michelle. “Maori or English? The Politics of Language in Patricia Grace’s Baby No-Eyes.” In Christian Mair, ed. The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies. Amsterdam: Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Postcolonial Literatures in English 65, 2003: 419-29.

Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 Keown, Michelle. ““Sister Seen’: Art, Mythology and the Semiotic in Patricia Grace’s Baby No- Eyes.” New Literatures Review. 38 (Winter 2002): 87-100. Keown, Michelle: “Interview with Patricia Grace.” Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing, 22:2 (2000): 54-63. Koster, Elisabeth. “Oral and Literary Patterns in the Novels of Patricia Grace.” Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 10 (Dec 1993): 87-105. McRae, Jane: “Patricia Grace and Complete Communication.” Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 10 (Dec. 1993): 66-86; reptd in Michele Leggott and Mark Williams, eds. Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995. McRae, Jane. “Patricia Grace.” CRNLE Reviews Journal, 1 (1993): 1-12. +Morrow, Patrick D. “Disappearance through Integration: Three Maori Writers Retaliate.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 1:1 (Fall 1993): 92-99. Mvuyekure, Pierre-Damien. “Patricia Grace.” In Erin Fallon, et al., eds. A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001: 190-9. Prentice, Christine. “Storytelling in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and Patricia Grace’s Potiki.” Australian-Canadian Studies, 8:2 (1991): 27-40. Robinson, Roger. ““The Strands of Life and Self’: The Oral Prose of Patricia Grace.” CRNLE Reviews Journal, 1 (1993): 13-27. Tausky, Thomas E. ““Stories That Show Them Who They Are’: An Interview with Patricia Grace.” Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 6 (Fall 1991): 90-102. Walker, Holly: "Developing Difference: Attitudes towards Maori 'Development' in Patricia Grace's Potiki and Dogside Story." Kunapipi, 27:2 (2005): 215-30. Williams, Mark. “Mansfield in Maoriland: Biculturalism, Agency and Misreading.” In Modernism and Empire. Eds. Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000: 249-74. Wisker, Gina. “Country Cousins: Negotiations between the Town and the Country in Katherine Mansfield and Patricia Grace”. British Review of New Zealand Studies, 14 (2003-4): 37-59. Wilson, Janet. “Distance and the Rediscovery of Identity in Recent New Zealand Literature.” In Gerhard Stiltz, ed. Colonies, Missions, Cultures in the English Speaking World: General and Comparative Studies. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001: 307-17.

Margaret Atwood Atwood, Margaret. “In Search of Alias Grace: Writing Canadian Historical Fiction.” American Historical Review, 103:5 (1998): 1503-16. Atwood, Margaret. Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing 1970-2005. London: Virago, 2005. Bouson, J. Brooks. Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1993. Darroch, Heidi. “Hysteria and Traumatic Testimony: Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Essays on Canadian Writing, 81 (Winter 2004): 103-21. DeFalco, Amelia: "Haunting Physicality: Corpses, Cannibalism, and Carnality in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace." University of Toronto Quarterly, 75:2 (Spring 2006) 771-83. +Delord, Marie. "A Textual Quilt: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace." Etudes Canadiennes/Canadian Studies 46 (1999): 111-21. +Howells, Coral Ann. “Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace.” In Coral Ann Howells, ed. Where Are the Voices Coming From? Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2004. Knelman, Judith. “Can We Believe What the Newspapers Tell Us? Missing Links in Alias Grace.” University of Toronto Quarterly, 68:2 (Spring 1999): 677-86. Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 Lovelady, Stephanie. “I Am Telling This to No One But You: Private Voice, Passing, and the Private Sphere in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en Littérature Canadienne, 24:2 (1999): 35-63. Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl. “Prison, Passion, and the Female Gaze: Twentieth-Century Representations of Nineteenth-Century Panopticons.” In Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson, eds. In the Grip of the Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang, 2004: 205-21. +Michael, Magali Cornier, “Rethinking History as Patchwork: The Case of Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Modern Fiction Studies, 47:2 (2001): 421-47. March, Cristie: “Crimson Silks and New Potatoes: The Heteroglossic Power of the Object Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en Littérature Canadienne, 22:2 (1997): 66-82. Michael, Magali Cornier. “Rethinking History as Patchwork: The Case of Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Modern Fiction Studies, 47:2 (Summer 2001): 421-47. Miller, Ryan. “The Gospel According to Grace: Gnostic Heresy as Narrative Strategy in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Literature & Theology, 16:2 (June 2002): 172-87. Murray, Jennifer. “History as Poetic Interdetermination: The Murder Scene in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Etudes Anglaises: Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis, 56:3 (July-Sept 2003): 310-22. +Murray, Jennifer. “Historical Figures and Paradoxical Pattern: The Quilting Metaphor in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en Littérature Canadienne, 26:1 (2001): 65-83. Niederhoff, Burkhard. “How to Do Things with History: Researching Lives in Carol Shields’ Swann and Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 35:2 (2000): 71-85. Reese, James D. “Learning for Understanding: The Role of World Literature.” English Journal, 91:5 (May 2002): 63-69. Rimstead, Roxanne. “Working-Class Intruders: Female Domestics in Kamouraska and Alias Grace.” Canadian Literature, 175 (Winter 2002): 44-65. Rogerson, Margaret. “Reading the Patchworks in Alias Grace.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 33:1 (1998): 5-22. +Rowland, Susan. “Imaginal Bodies and Feminine Spirits: Performing Gender in Jungian Theory and Atwood’s Alias Grace.” In Avril Horner and Angela Keane, eds. Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000: 244-54. Siddall, Gillian. ““That Is What I Told Dr. Jordan ... “: Public Constructions and Private Disruptions in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Essays on Canadian Writing, 81 (2004 Winter): 84-102. Staels, Hilde. “Intertexts of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Modern Fiction Studies, 46:2 (Summer 2000): 427-450. +Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto. “The Eroticism of Class and the Enigma of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 22:2 (Fall 2003): 371-86. +Wilson, Sharon R. “Quilting as Narrative Art: Metafictional Construction in Alias Grace.” In Sharon Rose Wilson, ed. Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2003): 121-34.

Dylan Horrocks: International Journal of Comic Art. See holdings in the University of Canterbury library. Bollinger, Tim. “Comics in the Antipodes.” New Zealand Comics: Nga Pakiwaituhi o Aotearoa. Auckland, Hicksville P: 1998.

Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 Boyask, Ruth. “Reading Community in Funtime Comics: A New Zealand Narrative.” International Journal of Comic Art 2.2 (2000): 152-63. Carrier, David. The Aesthetics of Comics. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania UP, 2000. Clark, Vicky A., and Barbara Bloemink. Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation. New York: D.A.P., 2002. Cohen, Stanley. Folk Devils and Moral Panics. The Creation of Mods and Rockers. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2002. Curnow, Wystan. “Speech Balloons & Conversation Bubbles.” And 2 (1984): 125-148. Dalziel, Margaret. “Comics in New Zealand.” Landfall (March 1955): 41-70. Day, Patrick. “Popular Culture.” The American Connection. Essays from the Stout Centre Conference. Ed. Malcolm McKinnon. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1988. 79-84. Doherty, Thomas. “Art Spiegelman’s Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust.” American Literature 68 (March 1996): 69-84. Drotner, Kirsten. “Modernity and Media Panics.” Media Cultures: Reappraising Transnational Media. Eds. M Skovmand and K.L. Schroeder. London: Routledge, 1992. Duncan, Randy. “The Weavers Art: An Examination of Comic Book ‘Writing’.” International Journal of Comic Art 4.1 (2002): 134-42. Eisner, Will. Comics & Sequential Art. Tamarac: Poorhouse, 1985. Estren, Mark James. A History of Underground Comix. California: Ronin, 1993 Feeney, W.F. Gruesome!: the influence of comics on contemporary New Zealand artists. Christchurch: McDougall Contemporary Art Annex, 1999. Groth, Gary, and Robert Fiore, eds. The New Comics. New York: Berkley, 1998. Harvey, Robert C. The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996. Horrocks, Dylan. Hicksville. Montreal, Quebec: Drawn & Quarterly, 2001. Horrocks, Dylan. New Zealand Comics: Nga Pakiwaituhi o Aotearoa. Auckland, Hicksville P: 1998. Horrocks, Dylan. “The Perfect Planet: Comics, Games and Word Building.” Writing at the Edge of the Universe. Essays from the ‘Creative Writing in New Zealand’ Conference, University of Canterbury, August 2003. Ed. Mark Williams. Christchurch: Canterbury UP, 2004. 197-223. Horrocks, Roger. “Hollywood.” The American Connection. Essays from the Stout Centre Conference. Ed. Malcolm McKinnon. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1988. 66-78. Kochalka, James. The Horrible Truth About Comics. Gainesville: , 1999. Lealand, Geoff. A Foreign Egg In Our Nest? American Popular Culture in New Zealand. Wellington, Victoria UP, 1988.

Lemon, Craig. Interview. “Dylan Horrocks: The First Name in Magic” Silverbullrt Comic Books. Nov. 3, n.d. 27 Apr. 27, 2005. http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/features/97329882597582.htm

Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 Lent, John A. “New Zealand – Exporter of Mainstream Cartoonists, Haven for Alternative Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art 4.1 (2002): 170-204. McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: Kitchen Sink, Harper Perennial, 1993. Mazengarb, Oswald Chettle. Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents: The Mazengarb Report. 20 Sept. 1954. Nyberg, Amy Kiste. Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1998. Openshaw, Roger, and Roy Shuker. “Silent Movies and Comics.” The American Connection. Essays from the Stout Centre Conference. Ed. Malcolm McKinnon. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1988. 52-65. Renner, Tim, and Dylan Horrocks. Comix: Contemporary New Zealand Comics. Manakau: Fisher Gallery, 1996. Sabin, Roger. Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art. London: Phaidon, 1996. Saraceni, Mario. The Language of Comics. London; New York: Routledge, 2003. Saville, Steve. “Kiwi Comics; Hanging Out In The Borders.” English in Aotearoa: New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English 3. (Aug. 04): 4-15. Tabachnick, Stephen E. “Of Maus and Memory: The Structure of Art Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel of the Holocaust.” Word & Image 9.2 (1993): 154-162. Varnedoe, Kirk and Gopnik, Adam. High & Low: Modern art and popular culture. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1990. Varnum, Robin, and Christina T Gibbons, eds. The Language of Comics: Word and Image. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2001. Wertham, Fredric. Seduction of the Innocent. London: Museum, 1955. Weiner, Stephen. Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel. New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine, 2003. Williams, Jeff. “The Evolving Novel: the comic-book medium as the next stage.” International Journal of Comic Art 2.2 (2000): 178-190. Horrocks, Dylan. “The Perfect Planet: Comics, Games and World-Building.” In Mark Williams, ed. Writing at the Edge of the Universe: Essays Arising from the “Creative Writing in New Zealand’ Conference, University of Canterbury, August 2003. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004: 197-223. +Nevins, Mark, moderator. “New Voices in Comics: A Roundtable.” International Journal of Comic Art, 1:2 (Fall 1999): 216-37. “Graphic Narrative.” Eds. Hillary Chute and Marianne DeKoven. Special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, 52:4 (Winter 2006). www.hicksville.co.nz Weston-Condon, Louise. “‘You Headed for Hicksville?’: The Transformations of the Graphic Novel in Spiegelman and Horrocks.” M.A. thesis, University of Canterbury, 2006.

Michael Ondaatje

Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 Bacic, Roberta. “Dealing with the Past: Chile – Human Rights and Human Wrongs.” Race and Class, 44:1 (July-Sept 2002): 19-31. Barbour, Douglas. Michael Ondaatje. New York: Twayne, 1993. +Bok, Christian. “Destructive Creation: The Politicization of Violence in the Works of Michael Ondaatje.” Canadian Literature, 132 (Spring 1992): 109-24. +Burton, Antoinette. “Archive of Bones: Anil’s Ghost and the Ends of History.” JCL, 38 no 1 (2003): 39-56. +Cook, Victoria. “A Spectre of the Transnational: Exploring Identity as Process in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 9:1 (Spring 2002): 105-17. [See also CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, (6:3), 2004 Sept] Farrier, David. "Gesturing Towards the Local: Intimate Histories in Anil's Ghost." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 41:1 ( May 2005): 83-93. Glover, Brenda. “‘Unanchored to the World’: Displacement and Alienation in Anil’s Ghost and the Prose of Michael Ondaatje.” CRNLE Journal. 2000: 75-80 +Harting, Heike. “Diasporic Cross-Currents in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk.” Studies in Canadian Literature, 28(1) 2003: 43-70. Hoffmann, Tod. “Seeing Ghosts.” Queen’s Quarterly, 107:3 (Fall 2000): 446-51. Knepper, Wendy: "Confession, Autopsy and the Postcolonial Postmortems of Michael Ondaatje's 'Anil's Ghost’'" In Matzke, Christine and Susanne Mühleisen, eds. Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2006: 35-57. Ondaatje, Michael. “Pale Flags: Reflections on Writing Anil’s Ghost.” Wasafiri, 42 (Summer 2004): 61-62. Scanlan, Margaret. “Anil’s Ghost and Terrorism’s Time.” Studies in the Novel, 36:3 (Fall 2004): 304-17. Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, ed. Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2005. Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview with Michael Ondaatje.” Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 53 (Summer 1994): 250-61.

Elizabeth Knox: Sarti, Antonella, ed. Spiritcarvers: Interviews with Eighteen Writers from New Zealand. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. +Stafford, Jane. “Antipodean Theologies: Elizabeth Knox’s The Vintner’s Luck.” [See MW for a copy of this essay that has not yet been published]

Alice Munro: +Bailey, Nancy I. “The Masculine Image in Lives of Girls and Women.” Canadian Literature, 80 (1979): 113-20. +Beer, Janet. “Short Fiction with Attitude: The Lives of Boys and Men in the Lives of Girls and Women.” Yearbook of English Studies, 31 (2001): 125-32. +Besner, Neil. “Besner, Neil: “The Bodies of the Texts in Lives of Girls and Women: Del Jordan’s Reading.” In Jeanne Delbaere, ed. Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction. Sydney: Dangaroo, 1990: 131-44. +Fowler, Rowena. “The Art of Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid and Lives of Girls and Women.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 25:4 (Summer 1984): 189-198. +Garson, Marjorie. “Synecdoche and the Munrovian Sublime: Parts and Wholes in Lives of Girls and Women.” English Studies in Canada, 20:4 (Dec. 1994): 413-29.

Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 +Gibson, Graeme. Interview with Alice Munro. In Elelven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson. Toronto: Anansi, 1972: 237-64. +Gibson, Marjorie. “Synechdoche and the Munrovian Subline: Parts and Wholes in Lives of Girls and Women.´English Studies in Canada, 20:4 (1994): 413-29. +Howells, Coral Ann. “Alice Munro’s Heritage Narratives.” In Where Are the Voices Coming From? Canadian Literature and the Legacies of History. Ed. Coral Ann Howells. New York: Rodopi, 2004: 5-14. +Hoy, Helen. “‘Dull, Simple, Amazing and Unfathomable’: Paradox and Double Vision in Alice Munro’s Fiction.” Studies in Canadian Literature, 5 (1980): 100-15. Macdonald, Rae McCarthy. “Structure and Detail in Lives of Girls and Women.” Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (1978): 199-210. +McCarthy, Rae. "Structure and Detail in Lives of Girls and Women.” Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (1978): 199-210. +Prentice, Christine. “Storytelling in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and Patricia Grace’s Potiki.” Australian-Canadian Studies, 8:2 (1991): 27-40. +Tausky, Thomas E. “‘What Happened to Marion?’ Art and Reality in Lives of Girls and Women.” Studies in Canadian Literature, 11:1 (Spring 1986): 52-76. +Thomas, Sue. “Reading Female Sexual Desire in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 36:2 (Winter 1995): 107-20.

Damien Wilkins: Evans, Patrick. “Spectacular Babies: The Globalisation of New Zealand Fiction.” Kite, 22 (May 2002); reptd as “The Baby Factory.” New Zealand Listener, 16 August 2003. Evans, Patrick. The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Penguin, 1990. Sarti, Antonella, ed. Spiritcarvers: Interviews with Eighteen Writers from New Zealand. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. Williams, Mark. “World-class in Timaru.” New Zealand Books, 12:4 (October 2002).

Carol Shields: +Dvorak, Marta: “Carol Shields and the Poetics of the Quotidian.” Journal of the Short Story in English, 38 (Spring 2002): 57-71. Eagleton, Mary: “Carol Shields and Pierre Bourdieu: Reading Swann.” Critique, 44:3 (Spring 2003): 313-28. Eden, Edward and Dee Goetz, eds. Carol Shields: Narrative Hunger and the Possibility of Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Hammill, Faye. “Carol Shields’s ‘Native Genre’ and the Figure of the Canadian Author.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 31:2 (1996): 87-99. Hollenberg, Donna Krolik: “An Interview with Carol Shields.” Contemporary Literature, 39:3 (Fall 1998): 339-55.

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General University policies and statutes Students should familiarise themselves with the University’s policies and statutes, particularly the Assessment Statute, the Personal Courses of Study Statute, the Statute on Student Conduct and any statutes relating to the particular qualifications being studied; see the Victoria University Calendar available in hard copy or under ‘About Victoria’ on the VUW home page at www.vuw.ac.nz.

Student and staff conduct The Statute on Student Conduct together with the Policy on Staff Conduct ensure that members of the University community are able to work, learn, study and participate in the academic and social aspects of the University’s life in an atmosphere of safety and respect. The Statute on Student Conduct contains information on what conduct is prohibited and what steps are to be taken if there is a complaint. For information about complaint procedures under the Statute on Student Conduct, contact the Facilitator and Disputes Advisor or refer to the statute on the VUW policy website at: www.vuw.ac.nz/policy/studentconduct The Policy on Staff Conduct can be found on the VUW website at: www.vuw.ac.nz/policy/staffconduct

Academic grievances If you have any academic problems with your course you should talk to the tutor or lecturer concerned; class representatives may be able to help you in this. If you are not satisfied with the result of that meeting, see the Head of School or the relevant Associate Dean; VUWSA Education Coordinators are available to assist in this process. If, after trying the above channels, you are still unsatisfied, formal grievance procedures can be invoked. These are set out in the Academic Grievance Policy which is published on the VUW website at: www.vuw.ac.nz/policy/academicgrievances

Academic integrity and plagiarism Academic integrity is about honesty – put simply it means no cheating. All members of the University community are responsible for upholding academic integrity, which means staff and students are expected to behave honestly, fairly and with respect for others at all times.

Plagiarism is a form of cheating which undermines academic integrity. The University defines plagiarism as follows: The presentation of the work of another person or other persons as if it were one’s own, whether intended or not. This includes published or unpublished work, material on the Internet and the work of other students or staff. It is still plagiarism even if you re-structure the material or present it in your own style or words. Note: It is however, perfectly acceptable to include the work of others as long as that is acknowledged by appropriate referencing. Plagiarism is prohibited at Victoria and is not worth the risk. Any enrolled student found guilty of plagiarism will be subject to disciplinary procedures under the Statute on Student Conduct and may be penalized severely. Consequences of being found guilty of plagiarism can include: • an oral or written warning • cancellation of your mark for an assessment or a fail grade for the course

Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 • suspension from the course or the University. Find out more about plagiarism, and how to avoid it, on the University’s website: www.vuw.ac.nz/home/studying/plagiarism.html

Students with Impairments (see Appendix 3 of the Assessment Handbook) The University has a policy of reasonable accommodation of the needs of students with disabilities. The policy aims to give students with disabilities the same opportunity as other students to demonstrate their abilities. If you have a disability, impairment or chronic medical condition (temporary, permanent or recurring) that may impact on your ability to participate, learn and/or achieve in lectures and tutorials or in meeting the course requirements, please contact the course coordinator as early in the course as possible. Alternatively, you may wish to approach a Student Adviser from Disability Support Services (DSS) to discuss your individual needs and the available options and support on a confidential basis. DSS are located on Level 1, Robert Stout Building: telephone: 463-6070 email: [email protected] The name of your School’s Disability Liaison Person is in the relevant prospectus or can be obtained from the School Office or DSS.

Student Support Staff at Victoria want students to have positive learning experiences at the University. Each faculty has a designated staff member who can either help you directly if your academic progress is causing you concern, or quickly put you in contact with someone who can. In the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences the support contact is Dr Allison Kirkman, Murphy Building, room 407. Assistance for specific groups is also available from the Kaiwawao Māori, Manaaki Pihipihinga or Victoria International. Manaaki Pihipihinga Programme This programme offers: • Academic mentoring for all Māori & Pacific students at all levels of under graduate study for the faculties of Commerce & Administration and Humanities & Social sciences. Contact [email protected] or phone 463 6015 to register for Humanities & Social Science mentoring and 463 8977 to register for mentoring for Commerce and Administration courses • Post graduate support network for the above faculties, which links students into all of the post grad activities and workshops on campus and networking opportunities • Pacific Support Coordinator who can assist Pacific students with transitional issues, disseminate useful information and provide any assistance needed to help students achieve. Contact; [email protected] or phone 463 5842.

Manaaki Pihipihinga is located at: 14 Kelburn Parade, back court yard, Room 109 D (for Humanities mentoring & some first year commerce mentoring) or Room 210 level 2 west wing railway station Pipitea (commerce mentoring space). Māori Studies mentoring is done at the marae.

Student Services In addition, the Student Services Group (email: [email protected]) is available to provide a variety of support and services. Find out more at:

Course Outline Approval Form FHSS Faculty Office – Jan 2007 www.vuw.ac.nz/st_services/ VUWSA employs Education Coordinators who deal with academic problems and provide support, advice and advocacy services, as well as organising class representatives and faculty delegates. The Education Office (tel. 463-6983 or 463-6984, email at [email protected]) is located on the ground floor, Student Union Building.

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