Overview

This unit explores how postmodern practices and ideas can help students become more adventurous with their writing and with their experience of literature. It also examines how theoretical and cultural movements have impacted literary history and how these can be used as play in reading and writing. Techniques examined include sampling, collage, parody and pastiche, fragmented narratives, and stream of consciousness

Requisites

Prerequisites

50 credit points

Equivalent units
LIT20001 Reading, Writing and Criticism
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Demonstrate critical understanding of theoretical approaches to fictional writing
  • Plan and deliver a creative writing project that draws on an engagement with critical theory
  • Participate in discussion that critically evaluates a set of ideas from the class syllabus
  • Track and reflect critically on the creative process through the production of a writing commentary.

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
Online
Learning activities		3.00 12 weeks 36
Unspecified Activities
Various		6.50 12 weeks 78
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Class PresentationIndividual 10% 1,2 
EssayIndividual 35% 1,2,3 
Written AssignmentIndividual 55% 1,3 
Class ExercisesIndividual 20% 1,3 
EssayIndividual 40% 1 
Written AssignmentIndividual 40% 1,2,4 

Content

  • Realism
  • Modernism
  • Postmodernism
  • Hyperreality and the Culture of Simulation
  • The Anxiety of Writing
  • Disputing Authorship/Ownership: re-mixes, cut-ups and appropriations
  • Labyrinths in Literature: non-linear and fragmented narratives
  • Theories of Creativity

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.