Diary of a Bad Year
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
2007
Z1421986
2007
single work
novel
(taught in 10 units)
'J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year is about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love. It takes the reader from Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay, from the meaning of dishonour to the creative truth of dreams.' (Publisher's blurb)
This course examines interdisciplinary writing across a range of literary, scholarly and documentary genres. In rethinking the category of the documentary ‘real’ it will analyse the binaries of poetry versus history, fiction versus fact and literary versus non-literary. Students will formulate and research their own topic. In the course of the semester they will develop this topic through a number of different genres. The course encourages students to experiment with writing hybrid genres such as creative non-fiction and docu-poetry.
