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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-107 Contemporary Writing

Credit Points:

12.5 1st year

Coordinator:

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

Students will study a range of contemporary texts in different genres and will also develop a folio of their own creative writing, in response to the subject. They will develop a critical and historical understanding of the period, be aware of recent innovations in writing, gain an understanding of the theoretical implications of different genres and learn to use classes as workshop sessions for their own writing. In their study of literature since the 1960s they will develop the relevant knowledge on which to base further work in English and Cultural Studies.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 4000 words, of which 50% will be for a literary-critical essay and 50% for a creative writing folio.

Prescribed Texts:

  • L Anderson, Big Science
  • I Calvino, Invisible Cities
  • J Coetzee, Foe
  • M Day, The Life and Times of Harry Lavender
  • S Heaney, Selected Poetry
  • P Hoover, Postmodern American Poetry
  • K Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • D Malouf, Remembering Babylon
  • N Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
  • Film: J Campion, The Piano
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