Radical Fictions (3111HUM)
School of Humanities - Griffith University
Semester 2 / 2009

Texts

Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse!$!Federman, Raymond!$!New York!$!FC2/Black Ice Books!$!1999
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99: The New Meaning!$!Abish, Walter!$!New York!$!Burning Deck!$!1990
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Alphabetical Africa!$!Abish, Walter!$!New York!$!New Directions!$!1974
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Maus: A Survivor’s Tale!$!Spiegelman, Art!$! Harmondsworth!$!Penguin!$!1986
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (trans Geoffrey Brock)!$!Eco, Umberto!$! London!$!Secker & Warburg!$!2005
Watt [1953]!$!Beckett, Samuel!$! New York!$!Grove Press!$!1970
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short- Short Stories!$!Shapard, Robert & James Thomas (eds)!$! New York!$!Norton!$!1989
Manhattan Transfer [1925]!$!Dos Passos, John!$! New York!$!Mariner!$!1991
‘The Babysitter’ [1969]. Pricksongs & Descants!$!Coover, Robert!$! New York!$!Grove/Atlantic!$!2000
y separately published work icon Microstories Rosemary Sorensen (editor), Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1993 Z188610 1993 anthology short story humour (taught in 4 units)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller!$!Calvino, Italo!$! London!$!Picador!$!1982
Ficciones!$!Borges, Jorge Luis!$! New York!$!Grove Weidenfeld!$!1963
Blood and Guts in High School!$!Acker, Kathy!$!London!$!Picador!$!1984
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Anthropology and a Hundred Other Stories!$!Rhodes, Dan!$!London!$!Fourth Estate!$!2000
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman [1759-67]!$!Sterne, Laurence !$! Harmondsworth!$!Penguin!$!1998
Patchwork Girl!$!Jackson, Shelley!$! Watertown, MA!$!Eastgate Systems!$!1995
Hopscotch. Tr. Gregory Rabassa [1963]!$!Cortazar, Julio!$! New York!$!Pantheon!$!1987
The Helene Cixous Reader, Ed. Susan Sellers!$!Cixous, Helene!$! London!$!Routledge!$!1994
Forty Stories. : Futura!$!Barthelme, Donald!$! New York!$!Futura!$!1989
Assassination Rhapsody!$!Pell, Derek!$! Brooklyn!$!Autonomedia!$!1989

Degrees

Bachelor of Arts

Description

Based on students' own creative writing (in forms such as creative nonfiction, collage-text, microstory, graphic prose, simultaneous and interactive narratives, soundscape, etc) and on the reading and critiquing of work by established writers, this course examines the processes by which creative practitioners produce and publish texts in radical fiction forms in today's publishing contexts. The course investigates theory, techniques and environments applicable to these forms while it explores strategies for the enhancement and application of individual creative writing skills.

Assessment

Item 1: Non-assessed Project Outline Deadline

Item 2: Project Deadline 1 (30%)

Item 3: Project Deadline 2 (30%)

Item 4: Seminar/Workshop Presentation (30%)

Item 5: Workshop Participation (10%)

Other Details

Current Campus: Gold Coast
Levels: Undergraduate
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