Module Identifier
WR30520
Module Title
EXPERIMENTAL WRITING
Academic Year
2008/2009
Co-ordinator
To Be Arranged
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.

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.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6