This Level 3 course provides students with the opportunity to develop work on a novel. Students undertaking this course will examine the poetics of the contemporary novel, exploring a variety of technical aspects essential to fiction, such as narrative structure, creation of character and the development of prose style. Students will read both novels and critical texts in order to deepen their understanding of the composition of the novel. Comparative and historical analysis will inform the development of student’s own creative practice. Students will have experimented with a range of writing genres in Level 1 and 2 Creative Writing courses. As a Level 3 course students will extend their writing skills by working on a sustained piece of prose fiction.
