ENGLISH 305
Modern Writing and Critical Thinking
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for ENGLISH 305.
Description
This course examines relations between criticality and imagination. We will read and discuss recent experiments in creative and critical writing from the UK and Europe, North America, South Africa and Oceania. Most of our texts will combine creative and critical writing in a tradition that intensified in the Twentieth Century in books such as William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All (1923). The adapted “prosimetra” of that book has many forebears, and compositional consciousness blended with creative enactment is as old as Bede’s account of Caedmon’s Hymn (c. 658-680).
Availability 2017
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Professor Lisa Samuels
Assessment
Coursework only
Points
ENGLISH 305: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II in English, Drama, and/or Writing Studies
