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 fouth 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 fouth 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.

Workshop participation 10% and the writer's notebook 10% (due at the end of the semester). All students are required to submit a draft Project Proposal (of not more than 1000 words including a Synopsis, Critical Reflection and 500 word Draft Extract) for feedback and will be resubmitted in a refined form together with the completed writing project. A Writing Project of 5000 words including the revised Synopsis and Critical Reflection of 1000 words 80% (due at the end of the semester).

A subject reader will be available. Recommended Reading: