ENGL 24010 - Writing London, A Prose Workshop

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

A fiction and nonfiction writing workshop. Students will use London as the setting for narrative exercises in voice and form and, later, for complete stories and travel essays. We will visit several iconic and idiosyncratic locales, such as Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park and Sicilian Avenue in Bloomsbury, for exercises in point of view, dialogue, and setting. We'll discuss several nonfiction accounts from novelists (Ackroyd, Naipul, Coetzee) on their own encounters with the city, and we'll read a broad range of contemporary short stories (Esther Freud, Geoff Nicholson, Kim Newman, Oscar Zarate, Iain Sinclair, and Maureen Feely) that use the city as background--and sometimes as foreground. Because we will move back and forth between fiction and nonfiction, we will have many occasions to question subjectivity, objectivity, and narrative form.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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