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Creative Writing Single Honours and Creative Writing Joint Honours
Welcome Information – Reading Lists 2015/16
Please read this whole document carefully.
Welcome to the programme! We know you will have an inspiring and exciting time here. In
your first couple of weeks there is a lot to learn, so don’t worry if you don’t remember
everything. This document tells you the basics and has your essential reading. In the first
week remember to:
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Make sure you have a username and password to log into timetable, moodle and
email.
Make any module choices online that you are required to make.
Check your timetable. Check this again for the first couple of weeks as it can change.
Go to any welcome talks, lectures or first classes you are scheduled to attend.
Bring pen and paper to make notes.
Don’t worry about asking questions.
Check your subject handbook (on moodle)
Read through any information on moodle or printed out that you are given.
Check university emails.
The following is information about Creative Writing. If you are a Joint Honours student,
please also see the welcome information for your other subject.
Readings below are Essential readings, meaning you are advised to own a copy so
you can bring it to class. It’s good to get these all before you start classes, then you
can get a head start with reading. [Many are available for Kindle and IPad, as well as new
and second-hand paper copies on Amazon, The Little Apple Bookshop on High Petergate in
York and Waterstones on Coney Street in York]
When you start, you will also receive a list of further reading to help you with
assignments and essays and add to your depth of understanding. Further readings
are available in the library or as electronic versions.
All Creative Writing Students take the following modules: Forms of Narrative and Reading
Texts 1 and the reading is listed below. Single Hons Creative Writing students take
Introduction to Creative Writing as a compulsory module. Joint Honours Creative Writing
students can choose to take Introduction to Creative Writing. The reading for this is listed
at the end. If you don’t choose this, please see the welcome information for your other
subject for your third module reading list.
Forms of Narrative 1CW101
Essential texts you need to bring to classes – it is recommended you own a copy of
these:
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Ovid, Metamorphoses: a New Verse Translation Penguin New Ed. Edition, ISBN
014044789X
Selected contemporary poems - will be available on Moodle. Please download,
print and bring to class.
Paterson, Don (ed.) 101 Sonnets from Shakespeare to Heaney, ISBN: 0571215572
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Saunders, G. Tenth of December ISBN: 1408837366 (any edition)
Churchill, C. Top Girls Metheun Drama, ISBN: 1408106035
Shelley, M. Frankenstein, The 1818 Text, Oxford Paperbacks, ISBN: 0199537151
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go, Faber, ISBN: 0571258093 (any edition)
Donohue, E. Room ISBN: 0330519026 (any edition)
Reading texts 1:
1EN011
Essential texts. In Bennett and Royle, please read chapters 1-4.
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Atkinson, K. (1997) Behind the Scenes at the Museum. London, Picador.
Austen, J. (2008) Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon. Oxford,
Oxford World’s Classics.
Bennett, A. and Royle, N. (2009). An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory.
Oxford, Pearson.
Kafka, F. (2007) Metamorphosis and Other Stories. London, Penguin Modern
Classics.
Shakespeare, W. (2008). Twelfth Night. London, Arden.
Wilde, O. The Importance of Being Earnest. ANY EDITION.
If you are Single/specialist Honours Creative Writing student, Introduction to Creative
Writing (1CW010) is a compulsory module. If you are a Joint Honours student it is an
optional module and you may have made a different choice – see your other subject
information if you have chosen something else.
The following essential reading is for Introduction to Creative Writing:
Introduction to Creative Writing 1CW010
 Aristotle, Poetics (On Poetry) – any edition
 Hopkins, C. (2009) Thinking About Texts: An Introduction to English Studies.
Basingstoke, Palgrave.
 Morley, D. (2007) The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press
 Porter, A (2008) The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press
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