Theorising Creative Practice

This course provides students with an overview of critical, theoretical, and craft-focused approaches to the discipline of Creative Writing. The primary aim is to develop students' command of various methodologies of creative practice, including those articulated by other writers. Topics to be covered may include: culturally specific approaches to understanding creative practice; creativity as revolutionary act; gender and sexuality; embodied practice; creative practice as therapy; class and precarity; the post-human; writing in relation to the other arts. Students will produce two extended essays exploring ways of critically and theoretically framing practice-based research projects as preparation for the exegetical component of their Honours thesis; these essays may be creative, i.e. in the form of lyric or cross-genre essays.