Reading, Writing and Criticism

Overview

This unit explores how postmodern practices and ideas can help students become more adventurous with their writing and with their experience of literature. It also examines how theoretical and cultural movements have impacted literary history and how these can be used as play in reading and writing. Techniques examined include sampling, collage, parody and pastiche, fragmented narratives, and stream of consciousness

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Develop a critical research plan for a creative writing project
2. Deliver a creative writing project that is contextualised by relevant scholarship with the intention to make a contribution to knowledge
3. Participate in discussion that critically evaluates the relationship between creative practice and scholarly research
4. Track and reflect critically on the creative process through the production of a writing commentary.

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Realism
• Modernism
• Postmodernism
• Hyperreality and the Culture of Simulation
• The Anxiety of Writing
• Disputing Authorship/Ownership: re-mixes, cut-ups and appropriations
• Labyrinths in Literature: non-linear and fragmented narratives
• Theories of Creativity