AustLit

This course will introduce students to writing that brings together theory and creative practice. It will cover the history and development of works that combine the critical and the creative including auto-theoretical, fictocritical and auto-ethnographic works. Students will read and analyse the development and use of these forms in academic and other institutional frameworks. Students will also analyse and discuss debates about subjectivity and objectivity, the usefulness of these forms and the place of the exegesis in creative and critical writing practice. Students will produce critical creative works and an exegetical work discussing process and form.