20 Credits AUTUMN



Aims/Description: This module offers a practical and theoretical exploration of the contemporary Anglophone short story. There will be a particular focus on the ways in which writers experiment with form, genre and language as a means of exploring philosophical, political and personal concerns. You will read and discuss work by writers such as Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Carmen Maria Machado, Jon McGregor and Lydia Davis. In seminars, you will critically analyse these texts and engage in generative writing exercises. In workshops, you will exchange constructively critical feedback on work-in-progress with your peers. You will write and edit your own stories which respond to and play with the techniques, approaches and conventions of the texts studied in class.

Restrictions on availability: For students in the School of English

Staff Contact: LEHOCZKY AGNES
Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study
Assessment: Course work, Project/ portfolio

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