|
91457 |
WRIT 121
A
Beginning Fiction Workshop |
Edie
Meidav |
. T . Th . |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
OLIN 107 |
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 open to First-year students only. Class size: 14
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91458 |
WRIT 121
B
Beginning Fiction Workshop |
Edie
Meidav |
. T . Th . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
HEG 200 |
PART |
See above.
Class size: 14
|
91599 |
WRIT 122 Introduction
to Creative Nonfiction |
Susan
Rogers |
. T . Th . |
3:10 -4:30 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. Class size: 16
|
91355 |
WRIT 123
A
First Poetry Workshop |
Michael
Ives |
. T . Th . |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
OLIN 303 |
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 individuals 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; registration will be taken in August. Class size: 13
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91356 |
WRIT 220 Text in
Performance |
Michael
Ives |
. T . Th . |
3:10 -4:30 pm |
OLINLC 206 |
PART |
Though in recent years, hip-hop and slam have
resuscitated an interest in the live performance potential of the written word,
another, alternate body of live, text-based performance art and practice, known
variously as sound poetry and text/sound composition, has been exploring
the dynamic and ever shifting edge between language and music since the advent
of European Modernism. In this
workshop/practicum, participants will explore this ecstatic border territory
where sound meets poetry meets music meets drama, by examining notable examples
of this other tradition and producing pieces in creative response. Among the historical materials well survey:
Russian avant-garde Zaum and allied modernist notions
of trans-rational language and glossolalia;
Sprechstimme; European and American text/sound composition; sound poetry (from
Kurt Schwitters to Christian Bk);
experimental radio (Beckett, Cage, Nordine, Firesign Theater, among others); the jazz poetry movement;
field recording and found materials; contemporary experimental performance
poetry; and if time permits, digital voice manipulation. The course will place a decided emphasis on live reading skills and performance
practice. Students will be expected to
commit to at least one, if not more, fully realized public presentations of
their work. Both writers and musicians
interested in exploring language as a compositional medium are welcome. Class size: 14
|
91354 |
WRIT 221 Intermediate
Fiction Writing |
Mary
Caponegro |
. . W . F |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
OLIN 306 |
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. Class
size: 14
|
91353 |
WRIT 223 Cultural
Reportage |
Celia
Bland |
. T . Th . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
HEG 300 |
PART |
This is a course in practical criticism, with all
that that entails: description, evaluation, comparison,
judgment, as applied to books, music, pictures, and shows of all sorts, with
emphasis on clarity, judiciousness, depth, and style. Weekly writing
assignments will be paired with weekly reading assignments: Norman Mailer,
David Foster Wallace, Orhan Pamuk,
Alison Bechdel, Susan Sontag, Rory Stewart, Luc Sante, et al. Class size: 15
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91357 |
WRIT 225 Writing
Fiction for New Media |
Paul
LaFarge |
. . . Th . |
3:10 -5:30 pm |
OLIN 309 |
PART |
Cross-listed:
Experimental Humanities This class will
explore some of the formal possibilities which digital media open to the writer
of fiction. Well work with several technologies, among them hypertext,
interactive fiction (IF), platforms for location-specific writing, animation
and multimedia. No technical proficiency is assumed, but the class will involve
working with applications and learning some basic coding skills. Well consider
digital-media works by Michael Joyce, Shelley Jackson, Geoffrey Ryman, Neal
Stephenson and others, and well read paper-bound works by Borges, Nabokov, Cortzar, Roubaud and others
which inform and anticipate the space of digital literature. Class size: 12
|
91600 |
WRIT 236 In the Wild: Writing the Natural World |
Susan
Rogers |
. T . . . . . . Th . |
10:10 - 11:30 am 8:30 - 11:30 am |
HEG 200 Field Station |
PART |
Cross-listed:
Environmental & Urban Studies In this course we will read and write
narratives that use the natural world as both subject and source of inspiration.
We will begin the course reading intensively to identify what is nature writing
and what makes it compelling (or not). What is the focus of the nature writer
and what are the challenges of the genre? To this end we will read works by
Emerson, Thoreau, and Muir, and then move forward to contemporary writers such
as Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, and Edward Abbey. There will be weekly
writings on the readings and an occasional quiz. In addition, students will
keep a nature journal and produce one longer creative essay that results from
both experience and research, and one longer creative paper. This means that
students must be willing to venture into the outdoorswoods, river or
mountains. Prior workshop experience is not necessary. A curiosity about the
natural world is essential. Class size:
15
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91651 |
WRIT 322 Advanced
Poetry Workshop |
Ann
Lauterbach |
. . W . . |
1:30 -3:50 pm |
OLIN 306 |
PART |
Writing and reading are closely aligned habits.
In this Workshop we will read and write in tandem, critique each others work,
and pay special attention to the art of revision. Class size: 14
|
91701 |
WRIT 324 Advanced
Fiction Workshop |
Joseph
ONeill |
M . . . . |
11:50 2:10 pm |
ASP 302 |
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. Class size: 14
|
91459 |
WRIT 3500 Advanced
Fiction: The Novella |
Mona
Simpson |
TBA |
|
|
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. Class
size: 14
|
91942 |
WRIT 405
EM Senior
Colloquium: Written Arts |
Edie
Meidav |
M . . . . |
4:45 -6:30 pm |
OLIN LC 118 |
N/A |
Literature Majors writing a project are
required to enroll in the year-long Senior Colloquium. Senior Colloquium is an integral part of the
8 credits earned for Senior Project. An opportunity
to share working methods, knowledge, skills and resources among students, the
colloquium explicitly addresses challenges arising from research and writing on
this scale, and presentation of works in progress. A pragmatic focus on the nuts and bolts of
the project will be complemented with life-after-Bard skills workshops, along
with a review of internship and grant-writing opportunities in the discipline.
Senior Colloquium is designed to create a productive network of association for
student scholars and writers: small working groups foster intellectual
community, providing individual writers with a wide range of support throughout
this culminating year of undergraduate study in the major.