ENGL 5090 is also offered in Spring 2024
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ENGL 5090 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2024 | ENGL 5090 Section 001: Readings in Special Subjects -- Writing a Life: Craft in Character (67271)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Meets With:
ENGW 5310 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 212
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 5 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- General background preparation for advanced study. Diverse selection of literatures written in English, usually bridging national cultures and time periods. Readings specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- Character is at the core of much of our work as writers, and in this seminar we will study a range of layered, complex characters, often in boundary-breaking texts, with a focus on the question: how do we write a life? We're interested in reading all the ways in which character can inhabit and infuse a text, all the ways in which character can determine the shape of a story and mode of telling, and so we will go beyond the usual examination of character as we try to imagine and understand every aspect of craft - structure, setting, genre, language - through the prism of character. Many of the texts selected for this course use radically unconventional approaches to develop character (fractured narratives, vignettes, lyricism) and as we explore how these writers' choices work in the text, we'll consider how the same kinds of techniques might work in our own writing. So alongside our inquiry into how we write a life, we'll also hold this question alongside it: how far are we willing to go in craft terms to write a life? In that sense, this seminar will also ask you to push your own craft to its limits, to explore, to play, and to discover more, not only about your characters, but also about yourselves as writers.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67271/1243
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