98501

98501

LIT 100 Written Arts

Edie Meidav

M . . . .

. . W . .

1:30 –2:50 pm

OLIN 107

OLIN 307

PART

In this writing-intensive course, students who consider themselves beginners in the act of writing will explore noteworthy examples of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, reading as writers and writing as readers in order to understand important elements of craft. The semester will be divided into three genre sections: each week will see us either exploring new forms or deepening our understanding of a given form. While we will focus on writers in English, with a particular emphasis on post-20th-century American practice, we will also read a few canonical and extracanonical writers in translation: e.g., Hafiz. Some of the questions sparking our journey will include: how do you find permission to write in a form you don't consider your own? How does a writer approach form and make it transparent? How does (your) voice incorporate and transcend form? How do different modalities work with such elements as time, mimesis, and catharsis? To what other arts does each genre ally itself? Students will end the course having created a portfolio of work in the three genres. This course is open to first-year students only.

98423

LIT 121A First Fiction Workshop

Mary Caponegro

. T . Th .

2:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 304

PART

98459

LIT 121B First Fiction Workshop

Edie Meidav

M .W .

10:30 –11:50 am

HEG 300

PART

This course is for students who propose a commitment to writing and have already written stories or worked toward narrative text of any length. Also, reading of selected writers. Group response, analysis, and evaluation. Discussion of general principles. This course is open to first-year students only.

98440

LIT 123A First Poetry Workshop

Michael Ives

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4:00 -5:20 pm

OLIN 310

PART

This workshop is for students who strongly desire to experiment with making their own writing a means of learning, both about literature and poetry, and about the discipline of making works of art. Stress is on growth: in the student's own work, and in the individual’s awareness of what sorts of activities, rhythms, and tellings are possible in poetry, and how poets go about learning from their own work. The central work of the course is the student's own writing, along with the articulation, both private and shared, of response to it. Readings will be undertaken in contemporary and traditional poets, according to the needs of the group, toward the development of familiarity with poetic form, poetic movement, and poetic energy. Attendance at various evening poetry readings and lectures is required. This course is open to first-year students only.

98444

LIT 123B First Poetry Workshop

Celia Bland

. .W .F

12:00 -1:20 pm

OLIN 310

PART

See above.

98246

LIT 2181 Reading and Writing the Essay

Susan Rogers

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

HEG 300

ELIT

This course will involve equal parts reading and writing and is for students who want to develop their creative writing, and their analytic thinking. Readings will be taken from Philip Lopate’s The Art of the Personal Essay, which traces the long tradition of the personal essay from Seneca, through Montaigne (the father of the personal essay) to contemporary stylists such as Richard Rodriguez and Joan Didion. The personal essay is an informal essay that begins in the details of every day life and expands to a larger idea. Emphasis will be placed on reading closely to discover the craft of the work: how scenes and characters are developed, how dialog can be used, how the form can fracture from linear narrative to the collage. Student’s work--three long essays--will be critiqued in a workshop format. This course is for students with experience in writing workshops, fiction writers and poets who want to explore another genre, and writers who enjoy expressing ideas through the lens of personal experience. Those who bring knowledge from other disciplines are encouraged to apply.

98173

LIT 221 Writers Workshop:Prose Fiction

Peter Sourian

. T . . .

10:30 - 12:50 pm

ASP 302

PART

Practice in imaginative writing. Students will present their own work for group response, analysis, and evaluation. Also reading of selected writers. Permission of the instructor is required. Registration for this class is complete.

98175

LIT 322 Poetry Workshop

Robert Kelly

. . W . F

12:00 -1:20 pm

OLIN 101

PART

Students present their own work to the group for analysis and response. Suggested readings in contemporary poets. Optional writing assignments are given for those poets who may find this useful. The course is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors.

98244

LIT 324 Advanced Fiction Workshop

Mary Caponegro

M . . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 307

PART

A workshop on the composition of short stories, for experienced writers. Students will also read short fiction by established writers, and devote significant time to the composition and revision of their own stories.

98421

LIT 3304 Writing as Reading as Writing: Late Modern 1940-1970

Ann Lauterbach

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1:30 -3:50 pm

ASP 302

PART

American poetry at mid-century appears to shift away from certain high modernist aspirations to more local focus and subjective lyrical impulses. The publication, in 1960, of Donald Allen's "New American Poetry" shifted the ground again, causing a seemingly permanent breech in poetic practice and reception. We will read poets ranging from Laura Riding to George Oppen to Allen Ginsberg. Weekly writing assignments will be made in relation to our readings; these assignments will take the form of a poem. For example, we read Langston Hughes, and the assignment is to write your own "montage of a dream deferred." The goals of this class are to help you find the relation between subject and form-the what and the how-in developing your poetics; to help you to develop a critical vocabulary; to help you discover ways to generate methods for your own writing practice. Weekly writing assignments. One term project. Texts: American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (Volume 2) (New American Library) and The New American Poetry, Donald Allen, ed.