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LIT 121 A First Fiction Workshop

Edie Meidav

M . W . .

11:50 - 1:10 pm

Olin 307

PART

This course involves both intensive reading and writing of the short story, and is intended only for first-year students who have made prior forays into the writing of narrative. This course is for first-year students only.

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LIT 121 B First Fiction Workshop

Edie Meidav

M . W . .

1:30 – 2:50 pm

Olin 204

PART

See description above. This course is for first-year students only.

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LIT 122 Creative Non-Fiction Workshop

Celia Bland

. . W . F

1:30 – 2:50 pm

Olin 308

PART

This course is for students who want to write “creative” essays. Creative nonfiction is a flexible genre that includes memoir, the personal essay, collaged writings, portraits and more. They can range from lyrical to analytical, meditative to whimsical. We will read a range of works and then offer up our own creative experiments. In particular we will pay attention to the relationship between language and ideas. Weekly writings and readings. No prior experience with creative nonfiction is needed. Portfolios should contain works that show imagination or a love of language or simply a desire to focus on ideas and words. This course is for first-year students only.

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LIT 123A First Poetry Workshop

Michael Ives

. T . Th .

11:50 – 1:10 pm

Olin 101

PART

Open to students who have never had a workshop in poetry, and who 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.  Attention is mainly on the student's own production, 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 for first-year students only.

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LIT 2207 Reading As Writing As Reading : Part One : Early Modernism

Ann Lauterbach

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin L. C. 210

PART

This course activates the relation between reading and writing poetry. We will read such key figures as Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, W.E.B. Du Bois, H.D., T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and ask questions about how formal choices construct content that allow us to make meaning. Students in the class will write poems in response to our readings.

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LIT 221 Intermediate Fiction Workshop

Mary Caponegro

M . W . .

3:10 – 4:30 pm

Olin L.C. 206

PART

This is an intermediate-level fiction workshop, suitable for students who have either completed the First Fiction Workshop or done meaningful writing and thinking about fiction on their own. In addition to critiquing student work, we will read selected published stories and essays and complete a series of structured exercises.

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LIT 222 Writer's Workshop:Poetry

Michael Ives

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

Olin L. C. 206

PART

Students present their own work to the group for analysis and response. Readings in contemporary poets and the problematics of poetics. Attention will be paid to oral presentation of the poem.

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LIT 322 Advanced Poetry Workshop

Robert Kelly

. . W . F

11:50 – 1:10 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.

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LIT 324 Advanced Fiction Workshop

Paul LaFarge

. T . . .

4:40 – 7:00 pm

Olin 101

PART

A workshop in the creation of short stories, traditional or experimental, for experienced writers. Students will be expected to write several polished stories, critique each other's work, and analyze the fiction of published authors.

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LIT 3500 A Advanced Fiction: The Novella

Mona Simpson

TBA

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PART

The first semester of a yearlong class, intended for advanced and serious writers of fiction, on the "long story" or novella form. Students will read novellas by Henry James, Flaubert, Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, Allan Gurganus, Amy Hempel, and Philip Roth (and perhaps others) using these primary texts to establish a community of reference. We will discuss technical aspects of fiction writing, such as the use of time, narrative voice, openings, endings, dialogue, circularity, and editing, from the point of view of writers, focusing closely on the student's own work. The students will be expected to write and revise a novella, turning in weekly installments of their own work, and of their responses to the assigned reading. The course will meet six times over the semester, dates to be announced.