11612

LIT 121   First Fiction Workshop

Paul LaFarge

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11:50  - 1:10 pm

OLIN 303

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..  Not available for on-line registration. Admission is by portfolio, with cover letter, due to Prof. Paul LaFarge by 5:00 p.m. on November 17th, (no email!)  This course is open to first-year students only Class size: 15

 

11460

LIT 122   Creative Nonfiction Workshop

Celia Bland

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1:30  - 2:50 pm

HEG 300

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.  Not available for on-line registration. Admission is by portfolio, with cover letter, due to Prof. Bland by 5:00 p.m. on November 17th, (no email!). 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. Class size: 15

 

11605

LIT 123   First Poetry Workshop

Michael Ives

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3:10  - 4:30 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. Not available for on-line registration. Admission is by portfolio, with cover letter,  due to Prof. Ives by  5:00 p.m. on November 17th, (no email!)  This course is open to first-year students only. Class size: 15

 

11610

LIT 221   Writers Workshop:

Intermediate Fiction

Joseph O’Neill

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11:50  - 2:10 pm

HEG 200

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.

Not available for on-line registration. Admission is by portfolio, with cover letter, due to Prof. Mary Caponegro by 5:00 p.m. on November 17th,  (no email!) Class size: 15

 

11606

LIT 2211   The Machine Made of Words

Michael Ives

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11:50  - 1:10 pm

OLIN 107

PART

.. as W. C. Williams famously characterized the poem.  The objective of this course is to investigate targeted aspects of verbal invention, with the collective goal of widening the field of options available to writers of poetry.  We’ll accomplish this by reading closely, with the scrutiny of an engineer or diagnostician, a selection of poems drawn from various historical periods of English poetry (and a smattering of translated texts).  Attention will be paid as much to the kinetic possibilities of syntax as to more traditionally “poetic” concerns such as rhythm and various acoustic effects, precise registration of image, and the arrangement of words on the page.  Written assignments/experiments will be closely keyed to these parameters.  Very nuts and bolts.  Not available for on-line registration. Admission is by portfolio, with cover letter, due to Prof. Ives by 5:00 p.m. on November 17th,  (no email!)   Class size: 15

 

11641

LIT 422   Writing Workshop for Non-Majors

Robert Kelly

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11:50  - 1:10 pm

HEG 200

PART

A course designed for juniors and seniors, preference to seniors, who are not writing majors, but who might wish to see what they can learn about the world through the act of writing. Every craft, science, skill, discipline can be articulated, and anybody who can do real work in science or scholarship or art can learn to write, as they say, "creatively"--that is, learn how to make what concerns them also interest other people by means of language. This course will give not more than a dozen students the chance to experiment with all kinds of writing. Poetry is the name of an activity, and that activity will sometimes produce objects called poems and sometimes other sorts of texts. Towards all resultant texts our attention will turn. This is not a course in self-expression, but in making new things. No portfolio is required but prospective students must consult with Prof. Kelly prior to registration.  Class size: 12