2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
PECI5406M Narrative Perspectives in Practice
30 creditsClass Size: 15
Module manager: Dr Campbell Edinborough
Email: c.edinborough@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as an Elective
Module summary
This module encourages you to consider and explore the ways in which the study of narratology, narrative aesthetics and critical theory can be used to inform creative writing practices in live and mediated performance. You will explore critical perspectives from the fields of narratology, media studies, creative writing studies and performance studies. You will develop creative writing experiments, connecting your creative practice to critical engagement with scholarship, and reflecting on your development as a practitioner.Objectives
This module encourages students to explore (creatively and critically) how the study of narratological theory, narrative aesthetics and performance theory can be used to develop critically engaged creative writing practices. Students meet these objectives through:• participating in seminar discussion,
• reading and engaging with examples of live and mediated performance,
• exploring and reflecting on personal creative writing practice.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Critically and ethically informed understanding of relevant narrative and narratological theories in the context of live and mediated performance writing.
2. Nuanced understanding of how narrative techniques are used in specific genres, media and forms of writing (as relevant to chosen area of interest).
3. Locate personal creative practice in relation to broader trends and debates in industry practice and culture.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Research and analyse examples of narrative creative writing with reference to specific critical and theoretical perspectives.
5. Apply critical understanding of narratological theory within the development of personal creative writing experiments.
6. Define and realise a piece of narrative creative writing informed by critical engagement research from the fields of narratology, narrative aesthetics or other relevant field.
Competence standards
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following competence standards:
1. Apply relevant theories and concepts to the development of creative writing projects for live and mediated performance.
2. Demonstrate a critically and theoretically engaged understanding of current debates in the fields of creative writing, media and performance studies (as relevant to student focus).
3. Reflect on the relationship between personal practice and broader trends and debates in industry practice and culture.
4. Demonstrates ability to design and realise creative projects working effectively within constraints of time and available resources.
5. Demonstrate communication/presentation skills relevant to specific industry contexts.
Syllabus
Indicative Content:
- Introducing key perspectives on narrative and narratological theory.
- Contextualising narratological theory in relation to different historical contexts and artistic movements.
- Contextualising narratological theory in relation to ideas about spectatorship, reception and audience.
- Considering the political implications of narrative aesthetics, with particular reference to questions related to decolonisation, gender and social inequality.
- Debating the value of narratological theories for practising writers.
- Exploring the application of theoretical perspectives within creative writing practice.
- Framing creative writing practice in relation to current debates about practice as research.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Supervision | 2 | 0.50 | 1.00 |
| Practical | 4 | 3.00 | 12.00 |
| Seminar | 7 | 2.00 | 14.00 |
| Private study hours | 273.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 27.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300.00 | ||
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
The subject matter of each seminar will be framed with reference to the assessment tasks and learning outcomes in order for students to ask questions and receive feedback on the development of their thinking and their ideas for their assessment tasks.Students will be given a one tutorial prior to submitting their essay and one tutorial prior to submitting their creative writing portfolio in order to provide support and monitor work in progress.
Students will also share creative writing in practical sessions and give each other feedback (structured with reference to prompts provided by the module tutor).
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Essay | Critical essay (3000 words) | 40.00 |
| Portfolio | Portfolio of creative writing (4000-5000 words or equivalent for digital/live performance work) | 60.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
Resits task are the same as above.
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 28/02/2024
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