| Module Identifier |
WR30520 |
| Module Title |
EXPERIMENTAL WRITING |
| Academic Year |
2002/2003 |
| Co-ordinator |
To Be Arranged |
| Semester |
Intended for use in future years |
| Next year offered |
N/A |
| Next semester offered |
N/A |
| Assessment |
Semester Assessment | Two portfolios of writing (each 2500-3000 words). | 100% |
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module, students should typically be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of the experimental in past and present writing in a variety of forms and genres
- demonstrate an understanding of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read
- demonstrate their critical and creative skills
- demonstrate an ability 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.
Aims
- to develop students' understanding of the idea of the experimental in past and present writing in a variety of forms and genres
- to develop understanding of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts inwhich literature is written and read
- to develop students' critical and creative skills
- to enable students to experiment in a range of forms and genres
Content
There will 10 x 2 hour workshops
Reading Lists
Books
** Consult For Futher Information
Italo Calvino. (1972)
Invisible Cities. 1997. Vintage
** Essential Reading
Emily Dickinson. (1982)
The Complete Poems. Faber and Faber
M Nourbese Philip. (1993)
she tries her tongue, her silence softly breaks. The Women's Press
Gertrude Stein. (1967)
Look at Me Now and Here I am: Writing and Lectures 1909-1945. Penguin