Module Identifier WR30520  
Module Title EXPERIMENTAL WRITING  
Academic Year 2003/2004  
Co-ordinator To Be Arranged  
Semester Intended for use in future years  
Next year offered N/A  
Next semester offered N/A  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
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

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6