Module Identifier | ENM5120 | ||||||||
Module Title | WRITING FICTION 2: FORMS, GAMES, GENRES | ||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | ||||||||
Co-ordinator | Professor Jeremy P Poster | ||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week | |||||||
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1. Beginning at the end
Closure and resolutions: marriage, coupling, separation, death, 'open' endings.
2. Myths and Tales
Collective subjectivity, collective destinies, gender politics and the coerciveness of old stores
3. Autobiographical Fiction
Confession, testimony, witness, the construction of the self, inventing your own life, appropriating other lives, telling lies
4. Censorship and Codes
What is not said, what cannot be said, cultural taboos, self-censorship
5. The Sexual Scene
How to write the erotic without being pornographic
How to be pornographic
The interesting cliches of sexual sadism
This module is at CQFW Level 7