30 Credits AUTUMN



Aims/Description: This module can be taken as a standalone module, though it complements EGH443,EGH440 and EGH441,a practical and theoretical workshop which is designed to look at current methods of creative writing exploring a wide range of forms of poetry and poetics, prose poetry, poetic prose and the hybrid. During the term our core readings and discussions (critical and creative) will be focusing on language itself and within that on concepts of self and selves, complex concepts of identity as fusion of the private and the public, political and personal, the position of the lyric, or fictional, 'fused' and layered I or is, on phenomenological questions in poetry such as the correlation between psyche and world, language and self, inside and outside while exploring notions and structures of memory, trauma, movement, documentation, perception, body (psyche) and place and environment, politics, historicity, constructions and deconstructions of self, identity and gender; we will be focusing on unnameables, hybrid - psychoanalytical, philosophical and other theoretical concepts through the lens of the creative writer; liminalities and boundaries within the contemporary text of (an old and new) genre, as made, found, de-constructed words of selves. During the module you will be given the opportunity to develop your writing in various contemporary formations of more established and currently forming conventions/experimentations; your critical thinking through a wide range of creative samples by current published authors of both poetry and prose and other speculative genres of fusion; and through the weekly workshops to sharpen your editorial skills.

Staff Contact: LEHOCZKY AGNES
Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study
Assessment: Course work

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Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK