Course overview
This third-year course aims to introduce students to a variety of experimental literary traditions and methods from the early twentieth century to the present. It offers a particular focus on the use of formal constraints, hybrid forms, collage and cut-up, games, and the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence as a tool for avant-garde creative practice. The course will expand students’ understanding of the importance of experimentation to literary innovation and help them work towards incorporating established methods into their own writing practice as well as giving them tools to devise their own approaches.
Course learning outcomes
- Interpret, craft, and reflect critically on a broad range of experimental texts and techniques belonging to different genres, traditions, and movements
- Conceptualise experimental writing projects and constraints, devise plans for their research and execution, and fulfil these to deadlines
- Analyse creative, critical, and theoretical texts related to different experimental forms, modes, and genres, informed by the global, historical, and technological contexts of their production
- Write and revise polished creative and critical works that demonstrate significant levels of clarity, insight, narrative innovation, and sophistication
- Evaluate their own and others’ writing, both in seminar-based workshops and through written feedback
Degree list
The following degrees include this course