106-427 Writing: Before and Beyond the Image

Formerly available as 106-081. Students who have completed 106-081 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours in English or English language, see Honours entry, or admission to Bachelor of Creative Arts (honours).

This subject is designed to foster innovation and experimentation in the writing of advanced students. It is a 'stand alone' subject but one which should complement the other fourth-year writing subject Contested Sites, in that it extends that interrogation of the limits, ethics and politics of writing. It focuses, in particular, on the paradoxes of 'representation', on its 'impossibility' and engages with a range of theoretical, critical and imaginative texts and practices, which suggest possibilities for writing. While it provides a forum for discussion and a workshop space for trying out new work, it is also a place to experiment, to theorise and to stretch the possibilities for your own practice; to learn, not simply from other writing, but from a whole range of radical practices.

Written work totalling 5000 words for 4th year, 6000 words for masters students.

A subject reader will be available.