ALL705 - Vision and Revision: Short Stories Now
Year: | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Online Trimester 3: Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week or approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week |
Content
This unit studies contemporary short stories from Australia and around theworld to examine how 'revision'-of stories, characters, voices, genres, andforms-underlies creative 'vision'. With an emphasis on formal innovation and the digital publishing environment, revisionism is explored as a centralmethodology of creative practice. Texts studied include Tom Cho's LookWho's Morphing, Ceridwen Dovey's Only the Animals, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Ryan O'Neill's The Weight of a Human Heart,Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, and electronic collection ofshort stories. Students will write diverse assessment pieces designed foran online portfolio.
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