| Unit name | Imitations of Life |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ITAL30037 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | H/6 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Duncan |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Italian |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit aims to explore the problems which writers have in writing about themselves and asks why autobiography has become such a representative genre in the late twentieth century. Aspects covered include: writing and gender, the relationship between self and society, the body and its text, the construction of subjectivity, the politics of autobiography, and autobiography as history.
