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Course Description
The MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Sussex has developed out of longstanding teaching and research interests in creative writing as well as in psychoanalysis, cultural materialism, eco-poetics, postcolonialism, deconstruction, feminism and queer theory. This MA allows you to combine intellectually challenging critical and theoretical ideas with an interest in creative writing. It is based on the assumption that theory and practice are not opposites, though the relations between them may entail productive tensions and paradoxes. This programme is impelled by the sense that the critical and the creative are necessarily intertwined. Many great writers in English, at least since Chaucer, have also written important criticism ? good writers are invariably good readers. We are proud to have French feminist writer H?l?ne Cixous as an Honorary Professor of this programme and the British poet J H Prynne as a Visiting Professor. Courses: Autumn and spring terms: you choose two options in each term from a list that may include Creativity and Utopia ? Deconstruction and Creative Writing ? Marxism and Creative Writing ? Psychoanalysis and Creative Writing ? Sexuality and Creative Writing ? Writing Workshop: this runs through the autumn and spring terms and is designed to enable you to meet, talk, read and exchange ideas about your creative writing and critical thinking. Summer term and vacation: you undertake supervised work on the dissertation, which will normally include both critical discussion and creative writing. Assessment You are assessed by term papers and a dissertation of up to 15,000 words, of which up to 10,000 words may be creative writing.
Entry Requirements
Students will normally have a first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree or, in exceptional cases, be able to provide evidence of equivalent professional or artistic experience. Applications must be accompanied by a short sample of recent, y be creItemalue+oSn++???A????#? ?+???????????????????????????????????+S?++??????,???@#i
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