300-400 LEVEL COURSES 324 - Short Story #6720

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University of Massachusetts-Boston

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MW 4:00 NELSON, DUNCAN OLD CATEGORY: C This course will focus on the short stories of Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time) and James Joyce (Dubliners), and on a selection from Raymond Chandler and Joyce Carol Oates. You will be encouraged to read "the lines themselves" rather than "between the lines"; to get what the story says rather than what it means (Krishnamurti: "The highest form of human intelligence is observation without evaluation"); to engage with the story rather than to figure it out; to dance with it rather than to bend it to your will. You will try your hand at writing a short story of your own, and you will surprise yourself with the result. You will keep a notebook in which you will record your pilgrims progress. You will hopefully unlearn a good deal more than you learn.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umb.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 287-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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