Statements and Experiments: Pushing the Limits of Novel-ty (P01132)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P00419

This course explores some of the key statements on the novel form made by practising novelists, in conjunction with a range of key experimental novels. Authors include Milan Kundera, Italo Calvino, Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, Laurence Sterne, Cervantes and Thomas Pynchon. Topics to be explored will include chronology and the management of time in narrative; realism, interiority and nightmare, and metatextuality. The course is designed for Creative Writing students, who will work with both the theories and the practices of a wide range of novelists who have had particular impact on the history of the novel form.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Available only to students on the MSc in Creative Writing

? Costs : Purchase of essential texts as required.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 2 hour(s) per week for 1 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students should acquire broad understanding of theories of novel writing, explored in relation to novels drawn from across a wide chronological and formal range. As writers themselves, they should be enabled to reflect critically on other novelists' formulation of key elements of their practice, and thus to raise and refine their critical awareness of their own practice as writers.