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4.00 Credits
Emphasis is on readings, analysis, and criticism of students' writing in Story Workshop setting. Class is devoted to reading of students' writings and discussion of extensive assigned readings directed toward enhancement of students' understanding of literary techniques, process, and values. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4104 PROSE FORMS, 55-4106 FICTION WRITING: ADVANCED
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Students read fiction known to be autobiographical in nature and respond with journal entries and classroom discussion. Students research primary sources concerning a writer, his or her work, and the process by which the work came into being; give an oral report; and write a final essay. Students read aloud journal entry responses to readings and write their own autobiographical fiction, some of which is read and responded to in class. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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This course will expose student writers to the creative and intellectual processes of published writers early in their careers. It will show students that a) writing is an ongoing process of writing and rewriting; b) the creative process is both unique and universal to each writer; and c) published writers faced the same bogeys at the beginning of their careers that student writers face. Through contrast and comparisons (in the journals and class discussions) students will examine and comment on the prose forms, character developments, and story structures first-time novelists have effectively used, along with the writing processes the authors employed to get their first novels finished. Through journal entries and essays, students will examine what all this tells them about how they might go about solving the questions of structure and process presented to them by their own writing. Students will be required to read three novels and conduct research by reading writers' diaries, notebooks, letters, and autobiographies. There will be discussion of the assigned texts and journal readings every week. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Writers must be free to draw on their strongest material and use their best, most authentic, telling voices. However, writers often confront external or internal inhibitions: outright legal challenges, vocal attacks upon certain types of stories, subtle publishing prejudices, or self-censoring. Course emphasizes research, writing, and discussion of creative processes of successful writers, among them Lawrence, Flaubert, Hurston, Wright, Selby, Joyce, and Burroughs, who have been forced to confront directly forms of censorship or marginalization. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Students read plays and stories by successful authors who explore dramatic techniques helpful to the development of fiction. Students will respond to these works as writers in journal entries, research and discuss writers' creative processes, give oral reports, and write essays. Students complete creative writing assignments that incorporate dramatic techniques under study into their own fiction. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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This course examines the ways in which gay, lesbian, and straight writers contend with issues of culture, gender, and difference. The course focuses upon such questions as the following: How do straight male and female writers deal with the serious issues and challenges of writing from the point of view of gay and lesbian characters How do gay and lesbian writers deal with the same issues in writing about straight characters The course also examines the particular challenges of writing gender opposites (whatever the sexual orientation of those characters might be). Through the students' reading of assigned stories and novels, through their written responses as writers to their reading, through creative fiction and nonfiction writing assignments, and through individual and small-group research activities, the course will approach broad and specific issues of gender and difference from early writing to the present day. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Course examines creative and intellectual processes of writers working in nonlinear structure forms. It raises questions writers ask themselves when determining how best to structure a body of work that is more cohesive than a collection of stories, yet not a linearly shaped novel. Through readings, small group and large group discussions, journal reflections (both students' and authors'), and research into the authors?riting processes, students are able to reflect upon and examine issues and questions of structure that go into putting together a cohesive body of creative work. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Students research the reading and writing processes behind selected novels and short stories by Russian masterpiece authors and give their own oral and written responses as writers to the material they are reading. Research examines the personal and social contexts in which masterpiece works were written, as well as the ways in which writers read, respond to what they read and incorporate their reading and responses to reading dynamically to their own fiction writing process. Drawing upon authors' journals, notebooks, and letters, as well as upon more authors and the ways in which students' own responses may nourish and heighten the development of their fiction. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES:55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
This course researches the writing processes of contemporary European writers, including the ways in which their reading and responses to reading play influential roles in the overall fiction-writing process. Journals and other writings by contemporary European authors will be used as examples of how writers develop dimensions of their own fiction and see their work in relation to other writers. The course involves study of the development of diverse techniques and voices of some of the most prominent contemporary European authors, the so-called "post-war" generation, in such countries as Germany, France,Czechoslovakia, Italy, Spain, Poland, Scandinavia, and Russia. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Students research reading and writing processes behind selected novels and short stories by principal masterpiece authors of the Soviet period from 1920 to present, such as Bulgakov, Babel, Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, Platonov, and Nabokov. Drawing upon authors' journals, notebooks, and letters, as well as upon more public writing and interviews, students examine the personal and social contexts in which writers read and respond to what they read. Students give oral and written responses as writers to material. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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