50256 Genre Study

Requisite(s): 50134 Culture, Writing and Textuality

These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses. See access conditions.

This advanced study of literary texts is designed to bring students into further contact with both contemporary and canonical literature. Literary theoretical concepts and categories provide means of closely reading these texts, as well as opening up sophisticated ways of thinking about literary practice. In particular, this form of literary study relates to creative practice and composition, including the student's own creative practice in writing. At the same time critical debate within the class explores the limits and the possibilities of the literary text together with the functional operation of categories like author, genre, narrative, performance, subjectivity, meaning, reading, writing and text (including in relation to innovative formats such as hypertext or other electronic formats). No one theoretical approach, or set of approaches, is privileged.

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus