ATS1904 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hannah Gadsby, Aeneid, Victorian Era
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Unit structure genre and thematic study: reading the city: creative work about cities, techniques for understanding urban spaces. Cities (cid:862)a disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t fo(cid:396)(cid:373) of so(cid:272)ial o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)isatio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)ma(cid:454) we(cid:271)e(cid:396)(cid:895) (cid:862)i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)ed (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ities(cid:863) (cid:894)be(cid:374)edi(cid:272)t a(cid:374)de(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:895) Sense of collective belonging even though impossible to know all individuals in the group. Anonymity is alienation: city allows individual freedom of the (cid:894)(cid:272)f. (cid:862)lo(cid:374)el(cid:455) (cid:272)(cid:396)o(cid:449)d(cid:863)(cid:895) Australia a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld"s (cid:373)ost u(cid:396)(cid:271)a(cid:374)ised so(cid:272)ieties (cid:894)(cid:272)f. (cid:862)(cid:271)ush (cid:373)(cid:455)th(cid:895) Literary infrastructure of publishers, editors, newspapers, magazines and author societies increasingly. Dominant european literary movement originating in the late 18th to early 19th century. Upe(cid:396)io(cid:396)it(cid:455) of (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld as a(cid:396)tisti(cid:272) i(cid:374)spi(cid:396)atio(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:862)the su(cid:271)li(cid:373)e(cid:863)(cid:895) Romantic poets display deep-seated ambivalence of the city as severing hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:448)ital connection with nature. Vastly different groups in proximity, becomes self-sufficient. Horror at excesses of urban poverty, degradation, exploitation. City as labyrinth requires new means of navigating and reading for clues: Modernist city dominant international artistic movement of first half of 20th century.
