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In this class students will explore the boundaries of literature; reading from the cannon of experimental and transgressive work that traces a lineage from Celine, Duras, Woolf, Duchamp, and Beckett, to Burroughs, Wittig, Wojnarowicz, Acker, through to contemporary transgressive and experimental work by Garth Greenwell, Eimear McBride and other works that challenge conventional narrative forms and societal norms. In addition to assigned reading, each class will focus on generative writing, taking a rigorous and radical approach to producing innovative, vibrant, precisely crafted experimental and transgressive prose. Students will engage in exercises, methods and practices used by the situationist and surrealists in order to create exciting, experimental new work and build upon it through revision.