Fall 2018 - ENGL 472W E100

Advanced Creative Writing (4)

Experimental Fiction

Class Number: 7558

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Mon, 5:30–9:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    ENGL 372 or 374.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

An advanced seminar-workshop in the theory and practice of poetry or fiction. Genre varies from term to term. Students with credit for ENGL 472 prior to fall 2015 may not complete this course for further credit. Otherwise, course may be repeated for credit when the genre varies. Writing.

COURSE DETAILS:


Advanced Seminar-Workshop in the Practice of Experimental Fiction 

Students will discover there’s no one way to write something, how to dig in and establish a distinctive writing practice and read towards what you wish to write. We will work according to Borges’ adage that “every writer… is fated to have a personal universe”.  Students will encounter examples of more innovative fiction and literary movements. Students will work autonomously and together to unravel their conceptual ideas, undertake weekly experiments provoked by the texts (from the highly literary to Reddit), techniques (collage, constraint, untitling, abruption, disruption, bricking, stream of consciousness etc) and ideas we’ll be exploring to produce a portfolio of works that includes a longer, solid and revised project/piece.  Students will utilize cross-disciplinary sources (including digital, sound, film, photography, painting, dance) for material and departures. Bring passion, anticipate progress and prepare to be pole vaulted by language and form.

Grading

  • Weekly workshop assignments 30%
  • Presentation on a work of experimental fiction or writer 10%
  • Enthusiasm and demonstrated curiosity 10%
  • Final portfolio 50%

NOTES:


IMPORTANT:
Students should obtain the required texts on their own, purchasing either through their favorite local bookstore or online.

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Literature Class, Julio Cortázar (New Directions, 1980)

Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau (New Directions, 1981)

Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field (New Directions, 2010)

I Love Dick, Chris Kraus (Semiotext(e) 2006)

How I Became a Nun
, César Aira (New Directions, 2007)

RECOMMENDED READING:

The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride

The Square, Marguerite Duras

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo

Last Words From Montmartre, Qiu Miaojin

The Night, Michele Bernstein

Thoughts of Sorts, Georges Perec

This Is The Place to Be, Lara Pawson

Bluets, Maggie Nelson

Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar

The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov, Walter Benjamin

Readings from the work of Maurice Blanchot

Seed, Joanna Walsh                                               

The Situationists.

Alan Lomax Sound Archive Radharc

UBU

Reddit

Department Undergraduate Notes:

IMPORTANT NOTE Re 300 and 400 level courses: 75% of spaces in 300 level English courses, and 100% of spaces in 400 level English courses, are reserved for declared English Major, Minor, Extended Minor, Joint Major, and Honours students only, until open enrollment begins.

For all On-Campus Courses, please note the following:
- To receive credit for the course, students must complete all requirements.
- Tutorials/Seminars WILL be held the first week of classes.
- When choosing your schedule, remember to check "Show lab/tutorial sections" to see all Lecture/Seminar/Tutorial times required.

Registrar Notes:

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