Radical Fictions (3111HUM)
School of Humanities - Griffith University
Semester 2 / 2010

Texts

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

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

Offered in: 2009
Current Campus: Gold Coast
Levels: Undergraduate
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