LT342-6-SP-CO:
Dreaming and Writing
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2023/24
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Inactive
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
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10 May 2021
Requisites for this module
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This workshop-based module will focus on the relationship between creative writing and dreams. The main focus will be to practically explore new forms and ideas for writing through engagement with literatures that explore dream forms, and/or use dream material for experimental narratives and poetry, as well as examples from a range of experimental film and art.
The group will be encouraged to write continually throughout the module using their own dreams, dream theory and other literary dream works as research for their work. The students will be strongly encouraged to keep a dream journal as a necessary aspect of the course. The group will be introduced to some 20th Century, classical and contemporary dream theories, as well as key psychoanalytic literature on dream interpretation to be engaged with through essential weekly independent reading.
* Explore experimental forms and ideas through the medium of dreams
* Employ innovative approaches to researching, composing and sharing creative writing
* Apply critical theory to various forms of surreal, innovative, transgressive and philosophically charged material.
* Build an identity as a writer, taking creative writing practice outside the classroom
* Experiment with form and ideas in poetry and prose
* Explore voice and character
* Consider the act of writing in conjunction with our experience of the world and our self-knowledge
1. A rich portfolio of imaginative, cross-genre writing.
2. A grounded understanding of key theories and concepts relating to dream philosophies and literature.
3. A developed sense of creative writing practices.
4. Heightened confidence in working collaboratively and contribute to a assured and supportive writing environment
The independent creative writing project can be; poetry, fiction, film script, performance score, or somewhere in between some or all of these. This creative piece will be accompanied by a critical commentary that situates the work in terms of relevant theory and other creative works. In addition to the writing project, students will be asked to produce a small collaborative work (working in pairs, or possibly threes).
Example of General Reading:
Blanchot, Maurice, 'Dreaming, Writing' in Friendship, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971)
Cixous, Hélène, Dream I Tell You, trans. by Beverley Bie Brahic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
Farbman, Herschel, The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature (New York: Fordham Press, 2008)
Freud, S., The interpretation of dreams; trans by Joyce Crick, (Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 1999)
Anticipated teaching delivery 2021-22: Weekly 1-hour lecture and 1-hour seminar
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Holly Pester, email: hpester@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Holly Pester
LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Dr Eleanor Perry
University of Kent
Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry)
Available via Moodle
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0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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