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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
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Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Required
Start dates
- 18 Jul 2022
QS RANKING 2022
17
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
13
Subject details
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- Overview of the Gothic and Speculative fiction genres
- 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
- The Superhuman Imagination
- World-building and transmedia narrative
- Realms of the Imagination
- Dystopia and Speculative Fiction
- The ecological turn in Speculative Fiction
- Writing your own eco-dystopia
- Gothic and Speculative transformations
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
Additional requirements
No additional 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.
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- Online Discussion (30%)
- Fiction piece (35%)
- Fiction piece (35%)
Current study term: 17 Jul 22 to 14 Oct 22
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