Course Timetable

[Travel Writing Tips]

2012

Lecture: Thursday 12-1 pm [AT5]
Workshop 1: Thursday 1-3 pm [AT5]
Workshop 2: Friday 11-1 pm [SC2]

[1/3] - Lecture / Workshop 1:
Who? Where? How? What? Why? [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• Bruce Chatwin. In Patagonia (1977)
• Alberto Manguel. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1981)
• Peter Wells. 'Grin like a Dog' (1998)

[workshop plenary session]

[8/3] - Lecture / Workshop 2:
Who? Ethnographer [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• Charles Darwin. Journal of Researches (1845)
• Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary (1839-42)
• Alan Moorehead. Darwin and the Beagle (1969)
• Mary Louise Pratt. ‘Fieldwork in Common Places’ (1986)

[workshop plenary session]

[15/3] - Lecture / Workshop 3:
Who? Unreliable Subject [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• Kathy Acker. Kathy Goes to Haiti (1978)
• Bill Bryson. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America (1989)
• Chris Else. ‘Fact or Fiction: the Curious Case of Biografi’ (1995)
• Lloyd Jones. Biografi: An Albanian Quest (1993)

[workshop plenary session]

In-class test:
Close reading (10%)

[22/3] - Lecture / Workshop 4:
Where? Close to Home [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• Steve Braunias. 'Father’s Day' (2006)
• James Hamilton-Paterson. 'The End of Travel' (2006)

[workshop plenary session]

[29/3] - Lecture / Workshop 5:
Where? Further Afield [Mary Paul]

Anthology texts to read:

• Robin Hyde. Dragon Rampant (1939)

[workshop plenary session]

[5/4] - Lecture / Workshop 6:
How? Traditional Genres [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• Matsuo Bashō. Narrow Road to the Deep North (1694)
• Theodora Kroeber. Ishi in Two Worlds (1961)
• Douglas Mawson. The Antarctic Diaries (1911-14)
• Douglas Mawson. The Home of the Blizzard (1915)

[workshop plenary session]

Due in Thursday, 5th April:
Asst 1: Book review (15%)

[MID-SEMESTER BREAK]
(6-20/4/12)

[26/4] - Lecture / Workshop 7:
How? Hybrid Genres [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• W. H. Auden. Letters from Iceland (1937)
• Martin Edmond. Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia (2006)
• Colin Hogg. Angel Gear: On the Road with Sam Hunt (1989)

[dual workshop session]

[3/5] - Lecture / Workshop 8:
What? People [Jenny Lawn]

Anthology texts to read:

• Anton Chekhov. The Island of Sakhalin (1895)
• Paul Theroux. The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (1992)
• Catherine van Bohemen. 'Safari '(1998)

[dual workshop session]

Due in Thursday, 3rd May:
Asst 2: Local travel piece (25%)

[10/5] - Lecture / Workshop 9:
What? Places & Events [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• James Fenton. 'The Narrow Road to the Solid North' (1988)
• Joe Sacco. Safe Area Goražde (2000)
• Eric Schlosser. Fast Food Nation (2001)

[dual workshop session]

[17/5] - Lecture / Workshop 10:
Why? Author Visit [tba]

Anthology texts to read:

• Lonely Planet New Zealand (2006)
• Eric Newby. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958)

[workshop plenary session]

[24/5] - Lecture / Workshop 11:
Why? Anti-travel [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• Scott Hamilton. 'From Kalmykia to Huntly' (2006)
• Iain Sinclair. London Orbital: A Walk around the M25 (2002)
• Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)

[dual workshop session]

[31/5] - Lecture / Workshop 12:
When? [Jack Ross]

Anthology texts to read:

• Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities (1972)
• Joseph Conrad. 'Heart of Darkness' (1899)
• Joseph Conrad. 'Congo Diary' (1890)
• Marco Polo. The Travels (c.1300)

[dual workshop session]

Due in Friday, 8th June:
Asst 3: Final project (40%)

[Shoshannah White & Tonee Harbert:
The Romance of Travel]