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This module will introduce the student to Experimental and Transgressive writing. The module will look at a number of issues surrounding literary innovation, taboo and non-mainstream culture. Students will explore a number of key theories surrounding the profane and will study a number of artistic texts that have dealt with subjects such as sex and gender, violence, drugs, horror and political subversion. The nodule will also engage with hybrid texts including digi-novels, bricolage, detournement, cut-ups and appropriated texts

·  Experimental Writing

· Taboo and Transgression

· Erotic Writing

· Violence and the Complexity of Representation

· Drugs and Creativity

· Appropriated and Found Texts

· Horror

· Digi-texts, e-books, hyper-link texts

A student passing this module should be able to:

1.synthesise knowledge and understanding of, and an ability to analyse and evaluate, a range of theories related to experimental and transgressive writing;

2. appreciate the relationship between taboo and transgression;

3. determine the creative relationship between theory and practice;

4. experiment, explore taboo concepts and take creative risks;

5. discuss the politics and poetics of the concept of transgression;

6. articulate an understanding of how non-mainstream writing can potentially critique and subvert various cultural and political hegemonies.

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.