12.5 1st year Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Second semester One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have a broad critical understanding of the traditions, contexts and innovations of post 1960s writing;
• will have demonstrated the ability to write, revise and self-edit in different genres;
• will be able to respond critically and creatively to contemporary literary production;
• will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing and presentation of written work;
• will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied;
• will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

This subject offers an introduction to some of the traditions, contexts and innovations of recent writing in English. It reads a range of works published since the 1960s, looking both at traditional genres and at the ways in which these genres have been imaginatively and critically dismantled. The texts are also here as examples, since this subject forms an introduction to the practical, technical and creative aspects of writing. Written work of not more than 4,000 words, of which 50% will be for a literary-critical essay and 50% for a creative writing folio. Anderson L Big Science. Calvino I Invisible Cities. Carter A The Bloody Chamber. Day M The Life and Times of Harry Lavender. Heaney S Selected Poetry. Hoover P Postmodern American Poetry. Kesey K One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Malouf D Remembering Babylon. Shange N for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Campion J The Piano (film) 12.5 Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Second semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have a broad critical understanding of the traditions, contexts and innovations of post 1960s writing;
• will have demonstrated the ability to write, revise and self-edit in different genres;
• will be able to respond critically and creatively to contemporary literary production;
• will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing and presentation of written work;
• will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied; and
• will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

This subject offers an introduction to some of the traditions, contexts and innovations of recent writing in English. It reads a range of works published since the 1960s, looking both at traditional genres and at the ways in which these genres have been imaginatively and critically dismantled. The texts are also here as examples, since this subject forms an introduction to the practical, technical and creative aspects of writing. Written work of not more than 4,000 words, of which 50% per cent will be for a literary-critical essay and 50 per cent for a creative writing folio. Anderson L Big Science. Calvino I Invisible Cities. Carter A The Bloody Chamber. Day M The Life and Times of Harry Lavender. Heaney S Selected Poetry. Hoover P Postmodern American Poetry. Kesey K One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Malouf D Remembering Babylon. Shange N for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Campion J The Piano (film)