LT209-5-FY-CO:
Creative Writing: Theory and Practice
2016/17
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
30
30 March 2006
Requisites for this module
LT111 and LT191
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LT832
BA W800 Creative Writing,
BA W801 Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA W803 Creative Writing (Including Placement Year),
BA PW38 Film and Creative Writing,
BA PW39 Film and Creative Writing (Including Placement Year),
BA PW88 Film and Creative Writing (Including Foundation Year),
BA PWH8 Film and Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA QW30 Literature and Creative Writing,
BA QW31 Literature and Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA QW33 Literature and Creative Writing (Including Placement Year)
This module is only available to Creative Writing (W800) students.
This module, which includes teaching spanning two terms, will explore key theories relating to creative writing alongside related writing texts and relevant workshop exercises. Theories to be explored will typically cover defamiliarisation, surrealism, intertextuality, structure, post-modernism and post-colonialism. Essentially, term 1 focusses on 'making the familiar unfamiliar' (defamiliarisation) and term 2 focusses on 'narrative' (including narrative in art as well as in literature).
Teaching will combine a study of key theories and texts across a range of genres, from poetry and fiction to autobiography, with practical writing exercises. In addition, we try to pay some attention to how writers (such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Pound and Breton) have theorised their own (and others' work). There may also be an opportunity to hear work and analysis from guest lecturers (see below), including Royal Literary Fund Fellows.
Module Supervisor's Research into Subject Area
Chris McCully has published many book-length works of non-fiction including textbooks, fishing and travel guides and at least one memoir. His most recent book-length work of non-fiction is an account of living, working and observing the natural world in the Netherlands (Outside, 2011). He is currently working on a collection of essays which explore travel, place and cultural memory (From the Last Sane Places on Earth, in progress) and on the angling, ecology and history of the Stour valley (Stour Diaries, in progress). He has also written well over hundred feature articles, most of which have appeared in the angling journals, and continues to write essays and reviews for literary journals.
See also the 'Making Text Essex' blog: http://makingtextessex.wordpress.com/
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Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Class Participation Mark |
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5% |
| Coursework |
Workshop and Commentary 1 |
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30% |
| Coursework |
Workshop and Commentary 2 |
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30% |
| Coursework |
Workshop and Commentary 3 |
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35% |
Additional coursework information
The first two commentaries will each have to be 3000 words; the last Commentary will have to be 5000 words
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 Chris McCully
LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Mr Rupert Loydell
Falmouth University
Senior Lecturer
Available via Moodle
Of 80 hours, 80 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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