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Breakfast At Tiffany's!$!Capote!$! !$!Penguin!$!
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold!$!Marquez!$! !$!Penguin!$!
Lover!$!Duras!$! !$!Harper Collins!$!
The Handbook of Creative Writing!$!Steven Earnshaw, ed.!$!Edinburgh!$!Edinburgh UP!$!2007

Description

Students are brought into close contact with creative practice in both mainstream and emergent forms of fiction and narrative as they investigate the question 'what is fiction?'. The subject introduces a wide range of recent and modern forms of fiction writing as technical examples and thematic models. Throughout the semester students produce and collectively workshop their own writing in fiction or script. At the same time, critical debate within the class explores the limits and the possibilities of the contemporary text together with the functional operation of categories such as 'author', 'genre', 'narrative', 'performance', 'subjectivity', 'meaning', 'reading', 'writing' and 'text', including in relation to innovative formats such as hypertext or other electronic formats. Students are encouraged to choose within a wide range of fictional forms for their creative writing.

Subject objectives/outcomes

At the completion of this subject, students are expected to be able to:

1. write using creative and imaginative practices

2. analyse and edit self-reflectively and critically

3. describe fictional forms

4. develop a specific form of a narrative

5. collaborate with peers

Assessment

Assessment item 1: Minor Fictional Piece

Objective(s): a, b, d

Weighting: 30%

Length: 1,000 words

Assessment criteria:

* Accomplishment of narrative

* Inventiveness and originality of writing

* Integration of critical feedback

* Level of informed and creative exchange

Assessment item 2: Critical presentation

Objective(s): b, c, e

Weighting: 20%

Assessment criteria:

* Insight and originality in discussion of chosen material

* Level of critical analysis

* Level of informative and creative exchange

* Timely use of UTS Online

Assessment item 3: Major Narrative or Equivalent in Selected Fictional Form

Objective(s): a, b, e

Weighting: 50%

Assessment criteria:

* Inventiveness, originality and consistency of writing

* Structure of work

* Integration of self-assessment and critical feedback

* Level of informative and creative exchange

* Timely use of UTS Online

Supplementary Texts

James Wood, How Fiction Works (London: Jonathan Cape, 2008)

Marguerite Duras, The Lover. Any edition.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Any edition.

Adrian Hunter, The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Robert McKee, Story: Substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting (London: Methuen, 1999)

Pat Cooper and Ken Dancyger, Writing the Short Film (Oxford: Focal, 2005)

Other Details

Offered in: 2010
Current Campus: City campus
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