116-032 Puzzles and Mazes: Experimental Writing

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Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

116-007 French I: Cultural Perspectives and 116-008 French I: Language in Context II or 116-015 Post-beginners French IIB or equivalent.

Semester

Subject Description

In this subject students will read a series of experimental literary texts in French, discovering the patterns and irregularities in their structure. An understanding of how these texts are put together will be applied in a series of writing exercises employing constraints similar to those they discovered in the reading. Students should also extend their understanding of the poetic function of language through the systematic study of wordplay and come to appreciate the literary potential of spoken French. On completing the subject students should have an understanding of the historical relations between the approaches adopted by the authors of the prescribed texts and a sense of experimental possibilities as yet unexplored.