50307 Ficto-Critical Writing
8cpRequisite(s): 50123 Narrative Writing OR 50243 Narrative Writing
Professional Strand – Writing – 200 level
Subject coordinator: Dr Gareth Jenkins
Ficto-criticism deforms the limits of literary genres, working both within and beyond them. Post-romantic in conception, it is driven less by the individual imagination and more by the material and attitudes thrown up by the writer's encounter with everyday political emergencies. At its simplest, it makes a persuasive argument while telling an engaging story; at its most complex, it is a surrealist montage of different styles and media. Ficto-criticism can label a wide variety of styles – the renaissance tradition of the essay (from Montaigne to Barthes); the new journalism of Joan Didion; the travelling philosophy of Alphonso Lingis; and the hallucinatory ethnographies of Mick Taussig.
Typical availability
Spring semester, City campus
Detailed subject description.
Fee information
2009 contribution for post-2008 Commonwealth-supported students: $866.83
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2009 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,900.00
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