Genealogies of Place

This subject engages with creative and intellectual concepts concerning an understanding of place (and places) and the relationship between place and individuals, communities and cultural formations. These places may be physical, social or psychological, and can include "natural" landscapes, urban/industrial environments, the genealogies of family, or place and the connections between memory and physical space. This subject asks students to engage with the work of novelists and poets in addition to non-fictional texts to stimulate their own creative writing project. These projects will be developed and workshopped in the seminars. Students will explore the relationship between the creative process and the development of written and performative texts. On completion of the subject, students will have produced a folio of writing that includes prose-fiction, poetry, performance/script or non-fiction.