Reading, Writing and Criticism
24 hours face to face + blended
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
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
Requisites
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical understanding of theoretical approaches to fictional writing
- Plan and deliver a creative writing project that draws on an engagement with critical theory
- Participate in discussion that critically evaluates a set of ideas from the class syllabus
- Track and reflect critically on the creative process through the production of a writing commentary.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Live Online Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Online Learning activities | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 6.50 | 12 weeks | 78 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Class Presentation | Individual | 10% | 1,2 |
Essay | Individual | 35% | 1,2,3 |
Written Assignment | Individual | 55% | 1,3 |
Class Exercises | Individual | 20% | 1,3 |
Essay | Individual | 40% | 1 |
Written Assignment | Individual | 40% | 1,2,4 |
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
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.