AustLit
Description
This subject is a laboratory in thinking, writing, the senses and experiment. Students may compose in any medium they choose: fiction, non-fiction, screen-writing, graphic or multimedia, poetry, philosophical and ficto-critical writing or other innovative forms. The laboratory is an environment of experimental elements working towards the networking of concepts, senses and practices. The group's collaborative study offers a context in which students may choose to produce individual original works of an intellectual, creative or hybrid nature. A lecture series positions a series of core themes from cultural, critical and literary debate, stressing themes which address how we conceive contemporary experience in terms of the senses, media representations, the environment and in relation to key questions in critical, philosophical and art practice. Dissemination of student work is envisaged as a core part of the laboratory's creative study and students present their final work in a published, electronically published, screening, exhibition, seminar or performance context.
Subject objectives/outcomes
At the completion of this subject, students are expected to be able to:
a. design contemporary projects in writing and cultural studies
b. explain modern and recent philosophical histories of writing and the theory of writing…
c. explore a range of contemporary experimental practices in the field of writing
d. analyse appropriate formats for the construction, publication and exhibition of written works
e. write, think and design creatively
Assessment
Assessment Item 1: The Workbook. 40%; Assessment Item 2: The Work. 60%
Supplementary Texts
Indicative references include:
Aarseth, Espen, 1997, Cybertext: Perspectives On Ergodic Literature, Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 1981, "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes toward a Historical Poetics" in ed Michael Holquist, The Dialogic Imagination, Austin, University of Texas Press.
ed. Becket, Fiona and Gifford, Terry, 2007, Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi.
Bell, A. 2010, The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Barthes, Roland, 1984, The Rustle of Language, trans Richard Howard, New York, Hill and Wang.
Barthes, Roland, 1991, The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation, trans Richard Howard, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press.
Bernstein, Charles, 1992, A Poetics. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Bolter, J. David, 2001, Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, Mahwah, N.J., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2nd ed.
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1999, Collected Fictions, trans Andrew Hurley, New York: Penguin Books.
Chandler, Annmarie and Neumark, Norie, 2005, At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.
Cixous, Hélène, 2005, Stigmata: Escaping Texts, London and New York, Routledge Classics.
ed., Cook, Jon, 2004, Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000, Malden, MA, Blackwells Publishers.
Damasio, Antonio, 1999, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Orlando, Harcourt.
Evans, Vyvyan, 2004, The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning, and Temporal Cognition, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamin.
Fletcher, Angus, 2004, A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination, Cambridge Mass. and London, England, Harvard University Press.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg: 1995, Truth and Method, trans Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G Marshall, New York, Continuum.
Garrard, Greg, 2004, Ecocriticsm, London, New York, Routledge.
Hayles, N. Katherine, 2008, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, South Bend, University of Notre Dame Press.
Ingarden, Roman, 1973, The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art, trans. Crowley, Ruth Ann and Olson, Kenneth R., Evanston, Northwestern University Press.
Joyce, M., 2000, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, MIT Press, Leonardo Books, Cambridge, Mass.
ed., Kostelanetz, Richard, 1980, Text-Sound Texts, New York, William Morrow.
Lodge, David, 2003, Consciousness and the Novel, London, Penguin Books.
Manguel, Alberto, 1997, A History of Reading, London: Harper Collins.
McHale, Brian, 1987, Postmodernist Fiction, London, Routledge.
Martin, Henri-Jean, 1994, The History and Power of Writing, trans Lydia G Cochrane, Chicago, Chicago University Press.
Olson, David R., 1994, The World On Paper: the Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Refer to the course website for further references.
Other Details
Offered in:
2010
Current Campus:
City campus
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