What are the basic elements of writing, and how are these organised in prose and poetry? When writing succeeds, and when it fails, why is this? Are there kinds of literary awareness which writers need to have, regardless of what they write; and are these forms of literary sensibility transferable from one genre to another? Using a series of samples and extracts from canonical texts to explore what has made for good (and not so good) creative writing in the past, including important theoretical statements from a range of literary thinkers, this module will seek to learn practical lessons from such exemplars.
The module will be taught by a weekly seminar (2 hours) over 11 weeks.
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