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How have Europeans confronted and questioned aspects of European identity in their encounters with self and other? Civilisation and Barbarism takes as its theme the self-understanding of European civilisation in its encounters with the primitive, the barbaric and the savage since the Renaissance. The oppositions of 'civilisation' and 'barbarism', and 'civilisation' and 'nature', are central to the European tradition of self-questioning and are traced through from the Renaissance writers Montaigne and Shakespeare to Rousseau in the eighteenth century to late Enlightenment and romantic writers around the time of the French Revolution. Sigmund Freud's twentieth-century analysis of the discontent of civilisation is read in the context of the developments of European communism and fascism. Examples of post-war literature and contemporary film bring the unit content up to the present, providing a coherent sociohistorical and cultural understanding of central processes of European self-understanding.
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In this unit students clarify terms such as ethnicity, national identity and racism and study these factors in the context of European history, society and culture. This includes discussion of basic aspects of group behaviour (i.e. ethnicity and national identity as psychosocial categories) and intergroup communication (language, culture and representation); the ways in which ethnicity has been used in the service of nationalist ideologies and identifications, and how it has been represented in European literature and culture. Topics for study include the ethnic origins of European national groups; myths of national origin and ethnic election; national stereotypes; theories of ethnic and national identity in different European contexts; multinational empires and romantic nationalism; representations of ethnicity and national identity in European literature and culture; culturally specific modes of representation and communication; the use of ethnicity in nationalist ideologies and identifications; the development of national identities in specific European contexts; and multiculturalism and postmodernism. Case material dealing with the ethnic and national self-identification of European peoples is drawn from England, Central Europe, and the Balkans and ex-Yugoslavia on the basis of novels, plays, film, visual art, opera, theoretical texts and other cultural documents.
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This unit studies the role of utopian and dystopian thinking and the use of the imagination in European civilisation and culture. Topics include secular utopias of the Renaissance; the utopian impulse in European voyages of discovery and colonialism; blueprints for change in the modern era (socialism, communism, capitalist and anti-capitalist utopias, etc.); nineteenth-century romantic and socialist utopianism, twentieth-century science fiction and futurist utopian and dystopian narratives. Themes include the utopian component of radical politics, terrorism, technology and progress in science fiction; and Eastern and Western European theories of modernisation.
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This unit provides an introduction to the history of European cinema and to the art of reading film before focusing on a broad selection of contemporary European films. These films are compared and contrasted in thematic and generic terms to enable students to understand main themes of social and cultural change in Europe. At the same time, developments in European film, cinematic techniques and the work of particular directors are studied.
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When the First Fleet landed in Botany Bay, it brought with it 'European, specifically English, culture of the late Enlightenment in all its richness and contradiction' (David Malouf). The British colony soon included Irish settlers, exiles and refugees from Central and Eastern Europe, Mediterranean immigrants, and others seeking prosperity and freedom. Along with their hopes for a new start, they brought with them the heritage of their European cultures and traditions. The history of Australian multiculturalism thus reaches back to the origins of white settlement. This unit studies the participation and contribution of European cultures to the creation of Australian identity on the basis of literature and film.
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This unit provides students with an understanding of the complex linguistic and sociolinguistic issues affecting contemporary Europe. Students become familiar with the development of European languages and are able to address critically aspects such as the link between language and identity in the European context, the role of languages in the formation of the concept of Europe, the status of some minority languages, and other important issues which contribute to make Europe a rich linguistic tapestry.
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How are media and culture related? What factors—technological, political, social—drive developments in media and culture? Mass media and propaganda have existed in Europe from earliest times, but the forms and contexts in which they operate have changed. This unit traces the development of public communication in Europe from pre-modern to postmodern times. It focuses, in particular, on changing communicative forms in changing communicative contexts. Historical case studies are considered in a sociocultural context in order to understand the way in which the development of the media and public communication in Europe has been shaped by corresponding developments in material, technological, intellectual and ideological–political spheres. Communicative forms that are considered include the public ceremony or procession, public space, manuscripts, print media, televisual media and the Internet. These forms are explored in communicative contexts including medieval Europe, nineteenth-century Europe, the British Empire, Nazi Germany, Communist East-Central Europe and late capitalist and post-communist societies. The unit can be counted towards either a European Studies or History major.
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Europe may no longer bestride the globe as she did in the nineteenth century, but she is still an intellectual superpower. The very traumas that destroyed European hegemony provoked an array of brilliant thinkers to brutally interrogate the 'meaning of modernity'. From the Existentialists who emerged from the smoking ruins of World War II, through to the neo-Marxist 'New Left' provoked by the discrediting of Stalinism and the cultural convulsion of '1968', until the dissidents who brought down Communism in Eastern Europe and the 'think tankers' who inaugurated today's neo-liberalism, European intellectuals have repeatedly revolutionised our understanding of the world. This unit surveys their experience, from the 'crisis of modernity' summed up as 'Auschwitz' until our own 'condition of postmodernity'.
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From the Nietzscheans and Freudians who challenged bourgeois order before World War I, through to Surrealists who envisaged an anarchic 'liberation of desire' and 'Conservative Revolutionaries' who dreamed the Third Reich, until the rise of Existentialism during World War II, Europe's 'master thinkers' struggled to interpret, explain and even dominate a world of violent political conflict and intense cultural crisis. This unit surveys their story, beginning with the Belle Epoque during which radical thinkers everywhere challenged the certainties of the nineteenth century, then examining the intellectual trauma of the Great War and the inter-war years during which so many intellectuals enlisted with fascism and communism, and concluding with cultural collaboration and resistance during World War II.
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In this unit the concept of the European individual is studied in its origins and development, with a focus on concepts of tolerance, openness and pluralism as the defining values for modern European and Western identity. The theoretical aspects of the development of the European individual are covered (e.g. Freud, Jung, Elias et al.) and longer, more complex texts, in particular from various Eastern European, and/or post-communist environments are studied, with a view to identifying modern and postmodern conceptualisations of the individual.
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This unit covers in detail literary and sociological materials dealing with the ethnic and national self-identification of specific European peoples. The particular problems of the central European histories of the development of ethnic and national identities are explored with reference to current problems of multinational, multi-ethnic and multilingual states. Texts and films are included for study along with works from twentieth-century communist environments and the Balkan states.
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From medieval to postmodern times, European societies have located their hopes and fears in the magical realms of fairy tales and childhood. This unit explores the place of folk and classic fairy tales, Romantic and literary fairy tales, and children’s literature in European civilisation and culture. The individual and sociopolitical significance of imaginative literature is considered in light of psychoanalytic, literary and sociohistorical theories drawn from European intellectual traditions. Texts for study include classic fairy tales, Romantic literary fairy tales, children’s literature, and modern forms of the fairy tale and are drawn from a variety of contexts which exemplify the multiple possible relationships of imaginative literature to individual self-understanding, social consciousness and sociopolitical environment.
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In this unit on European cinema, the oeuvre of one or more influential directors (e.g. Kieslowski, Kusturica, Almodovar) is studied with reference to European as well as national cinematic canons.
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This unit studies the colonial/postcolonial subjectivities and border crossings in the geographical and historical context of French and British Imperialism in Asia. Topics include comparative orientalisms (British and French); adventure and romance in the colonies; modernity and colonial anxieties; race, gender and identity in postcolonial writings; myth and multiculturalism in European film; and nationalism and transnationalism in Euro-Asian cultural co-productions.
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This unit provides students with the opportunity to study the interrelationships between communicative strategies, politics and culture in specific historical contexts of modern Europe and the West. Topics for detailed study are chosen from areas such as (1) Enlightenment and revolutionary literature; (2) development of the European 'public sphere'; (3) communicative cultures in dictatorships, including under Nazism and Stalinism; 'political correctness', diversity of opinion, democracy and freedom of speech in modern Western societies; (4) democracy and web culture, including the historical development of the Web and its contribution to the development of the public sphere, democracy and cross-cultural understanding. Emphasis is laid on the interrelationships of communicative structures with social and cultural factors in selected areas of European history. Choice of topics depends on staff availability. Detailed information on topics for any given year are available from the office of European Studies. The unit can be counted towards a major in European Studies, History or Communication Studies.
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