ENGLISH 769

Representing Imagining

Description

Investigates representation in imaginative writing. Principal texts are from 1928 to the present and from North America, UK, Aotearoa New Zealand, France, and the Caribbean. Topics include genre and expectations; ideologies of originality and copying; discursive mixing; authenticity; wholeness and brokenness; translingualism; the page, the codex and the digitas; and the economy of the imaginative subject.

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Assessment

Coursework only

Availability 2025

Not taught in 2025

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor Lisa Samuels

Points

ENGLISH 769: 30 points