Handbook

What does it mean to write about ourselves in an age of reality hunger, with genres such as autofiction and memoir proliferating, and with social media providing everyone with a public profile? If print culture of the Gutenberg era has given way to digital culture of the Google era, this has only increased the amount of text that we are immersed in. In this course you will explore how literature has competed with, absorbed, and remediated new technologies of communication. You will approach ‘creative writing’ as a mode of expression that emerges from and circulates within a much larger textual environment, and you will produce your own innovative engagements with contemporary media in a practical workshop situation.