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ENGL4122: Critical Contexts for Creative Writing
2023 unit information
This unit will further develop your understanding of how creative writing connects with major scholarly and critical debates in literary and cultural theory. Focusing in particular on writers whose work is both creative and theoretical, the unit will examine: theories of authorship; the history of the book; the ethics and politics of writing; aesthetic hierarchy and value; close and distant reading; form, genre and style; writing, sex and embodiment.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
English and Writing
| Code | ENGL4122 |
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| Academic unit | English and Writing |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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ENGL3696 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate a greater understanding of the relationship between literary theory and practice, and the interrelationship of reading and writing
- LO2. position your own critical and creative writing within contemporary practices and debates
- LO3. understand more about the historical context of literary theory and practice and the relationship between intratextual, intertextual and extra textual dimensions
- LO4. demonstrate an expanded sense of the literary economy: the processes by which texts enter into circulation and their critical reception.
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