Module Information
Module Identifier
WR30520
Module Title
EXPERIMENTAL WRITING
Academic Year
2009/2010
Co-ordinator
Semester
Intended for use in future years
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | There will 10 x 2 hour workshops |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Two portfolios of writing (each 2500-3000 words). | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. |
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the module, students should typically be able to:
1. demonstrate an understanding of the experimental in past and present writing in a variety of forms and genres;
2. demonstrate an understanding of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read;
3. demonstrate their critical and creative skills;
4. demonstrate an ability to experiment in a range of forms and genres.
Aims
This module aims:
1. to develop students' understanding of the idea of the experimental in past and present writing in a variety of forms and genres;
2. to develop understanding of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts inwhich literature is written and read;
3. to develop students' critical and creative skills;
4. to enable students to experiment in a range of forms and genres.
1. to develop students' understanding of the idea of the experimental in past and present writing in a variety of forms and genres;
2. to develop understanding of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts inwhich literature is written and read;
3. to develop students' critical and creative skills;
4. to enable students to experiment in a range of forms and genres.
Brief description
This module will engage with the following issues: what constitutes an experiment in writing? Do we simply mean that the writing before us does not conform to the forms and styles we are used to reading? Does a conventional form of expression in one literary tradition appear revolutionary when it is translated into another culture? Or is writing that is truly experimental a way of creating and perceiving a different kind of reality?
This module introduces writing students to a variety of experimental writing, both in poetry, theory and prose and to writing that blurs the distinctions between all three.
This module introduces writing students to a variety of experimental writing, both in poetry, theory and prose and to writing that blurs the distinctions between all three.
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6