ENGLISH 769

Representing Imagining

Please note: this is archived course information from 2024 for ENGLISH 769.

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 2024

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor Lisa Samuels

Points

ENGLISH 769: 30 points