300-400 LEVEL COURSES 302 - Advanced Fiction Workshop #6321

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University of Massachusetts-Boston

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TH 7:00 MELNYCZUK OLD CATEGORY: A PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR IS REQUIRED. PLEASE LEAVE SAMPLES OF YOUR WRITING IN PROFESSOR MELNYCZUK'S MAILBOX (W-6-052). PLEASE LEAVE EITHER YOUR PHONE NUMBER OR EMAIL ADDRESS WITH YOUR SAMPLES. So how does fiction work A writer is a craftsman, a carpenter of language, a bricklayer of syllables, an architect of meaning (or a draughtsman of the absurd). "A poem," said William Carlos Williams, "is a machine made of words." It's also true for fiction, though the metaphor is overly neat-too mechanistic, too limiting. I'd say the work we're doing is a hybrid of auto and quantum mechanics. Something very ordinary plus an x factor nobody's yet reduced to a formula. That's why every good story is, like Tolstoy's famously unhappy family, good in its o Your good stories are what we'll be reading and discussing in class, with hopes of making them even better.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.umb.edu

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(617) 287-5000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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