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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% online
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Assessments
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Prior study
Required
Study terms
- 26 Aug 2019
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Subject details
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- Introducing Gothic and Speculative Fiction
- Meeting the Audience: The Power of Terror
- Dark Plots: story-telling in the Gothic tradition
- Gothic Themes and Archetypes
- Writing from the Senses: ways to grab readers
- Gothic Ambiguity
- Haunted by the Past
- Realms of the Imagination
- Dystopia and Speculative Fiction
- The Body in Speculative Fiction
- Visions of the Future
- Negotiating Gothic and Speculative Authorship
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Study resources
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Instructional methods
- Discussion forum/Discussion Board
- Online assignment submission
- Standard Media
- Web links
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Online materials
- Online Assessment
- Printable format materials
- Resources and Links
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You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
GRF-CWR110-Creative Writing, Forms and Structures
Special requirements
No special requirements
From its beginnings the gothic novel and its cousins, speculative and fantasy fiction, have been popular and sometimes controversial story forms that explore the outer edges of the imagination through fantasy, space, myth, the future the supernatural and the borderlands of desire. This is a realm where nothing is as it appears to be. Safe suburban homes, families, planets, cities and the human body are all vulnerable to authoritarian powers, strange beings, dark spaces, unknown territories, uncanny secrets, and the return of the repressed.
This subject offers you a chance to study and practise writing genre narrative. We will look at a selection of popular gothic and speculative fiction, past and present, by practitioners that range from Le Fanu to Bacigalupi, as a springboard for discussion and creative practice.
- Online Discussion (30%)
- Fiction piece (35%)
- Fiction piece (35%)
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