Contemporary Creative-Critical Writing
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4331 | English | 4 | N/A | April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK |
- Code
- ENGL4331
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- N/A
- Semesters
- April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK
Summary
This pod explores creative approaches to literary criticism by studying a range of contemporary Anglophone writers who are fusing art and criticism, and in some cases blurring the lines between creative writing and literary scholarship. It examines forms like the personal essay, lyric essay, literary review, experimental biography, performative lecture and high-concept scholarship, and relates them to debates about the value, methodology and politics of literary study. There is a strong focus on the ethics and affect of literary form. Students will have the chance to experiment with form themselves in order to produce their own transformative literary criticism.
Target Students
Students registered on the School of English online Masters scheme.
Assessment
- 100% Participation: Student participation.
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
This module comprises an optional component in the following pathways: Applied English, Creative Writing, English Literature, Modern and Contemporary Literature, and World Literatures. As such, it contributes in its specific aims to the programme-level coverage of these pathways.Learning Outcomes
- Critically discuss and analyse the relationships between creative forms and critical thinking.
- Perform close analysis of literary texts, explaining how aspects such as genre, voice, language and structure, are related to the text’s status as a piece of creative-critical writing.
- Present an application of original creative-critical interventions.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired to the appropriate disciplinary and professional standard.
- Assimilate and present subject-specific material in an appropriate format (assessed within the ‘Assessment Portfolio’ 1, 2 or 3).
Conveners
- Benjamin Masters