This unit allows students to significantly advance their writing practice and associated critical and editorial skills through close analysis of language-level literary style, as opposed to story-level or narrative concerns. In creative writing advanced stylistics, students will work on unpacking, theorising and then replicating literary techniques used by a wide range of exemplary authors. This unit gives students a unique opportunity to consider and manipulate very specific aspects of their authorial voices, drawing on the field of literary stylistics, the Oulipo movement, reader response theorists, and other author-based literary theories and schools. Intensive studio-based work, self-directed creative practice, guided critical analysis and asynchronous on-line activities characterise the teaching and learning in this unit.
