LT145-4-SP-CO:
Creative Writing: Tradition and Innovation
2015/16
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
15
11 March 2010
Requisites for this module
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LT146
BA W800 Creative Writing,
BA W801 Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad)
This module is only available to Creative Writing (W800) students.
Rationale
To expand current first year provision on the BA Creative Writing so as to provide a more thorough grounding in creative practice, while encouraging students to engage creatively with primary texts from other first year literature courses, especially LT111.
Syllabus
This module will explore creative writing practice in seminars, workshops, and writing exercises, using literary traditions as a springboard for writing. Texts to be explored will in part be drawn from LT111, Introduction to Literature, but will also include additional material, such as ballads and stories, sonnets and sestinas, and alliterative verse. The aim is to work synergistically with LT111, exploring seminal literary themes and genres such as epic and literary underworlds to reveal and re-examine some of the roots of literature, and how these can inform contemporary practice. Translations and updatings of older material will be explored, as well as works that explore dialogic approaches to writing, such as the mock epic. Typical writing exercises will engage with forms and tradition and will explore ways of adapting traditional approaches to a contemporary audience.
Topics will vary from year to year but would be drawn from: theories and methods of translation and adaptation; Ovid and reworkings of Ovid; fairytales and contemporary revisionings; Homer and Joyce; Genesis and creation myths; versions of Utopia and Dystopia; writing and the environment ( Gilgamesh and flood stories); Dante and imaginings of Hell; hero and antihero in the Epic tradition; tragedy and tragic structures; comedic transgressions; Dante, Petrarch and poetic form; ballads and alliterative verse; folksong from Shakespeare to the present.
Module Supervisor's Research into Subject Area
Adrian May is the author of Myth and Creative Writing (Longmans, 2011).
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5000 words portfolio of developed class exercises, to cover at least two, and no more than three, topics, with a critical commentary reflecting on the writing process, including development and revision, and the relationship between the creative writing and the literary tradition.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Portfolio |
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90% |
| Practical |
Class Participation |
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10% |
Additional coursework information
5000 words portfolio of developed class exercises, to cover at least two, and no more than three, topics, with a critical commentary reflecting on the writing process, including development and revision, and the relationship between the creative writing and the literary tradition.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Adrian May
LiFTS Taught Team - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Mr Rupert Loydell
Falmouth University
Senior Lecturer
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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