Translating a Story
WRCT 223
Spring 2016
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01
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| Certificates: Writing |
This course aims to survey the process of "translating" an experience into a creative written work. With an emphasis on creative nonfiction, students will consider how a real-life event becomes most alive on the page. What parts are best transformed into scene? How do we choose the right language for dialogue, time period, or a work's mood or tone? What should, or can, we omit? In reading writers who have used both fiction and nonfiction to present a given autobiographical experience, and practicing writing an experience for different audiences, students will compare the craft tools that make a story work within its given form. Concurrently, the class will pursue exercises in translation from other languages into English in order to assess these same language and narrative choices in microcosm. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA WRCT |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Janette Winterson, WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU CAN BE NORMAL? and ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
Matt Gallagher, KABOOM, and YOUNGBLOOD
Primo Levi, IF THIS IS A MAN or THE TRUCE, and THE PERIODIC TABLE
Ishmael Beah, A LONG WAY GONE, and THE AUSTRALIAN'S exposé "Inconvenient Truths of a Child Soldier"
Raymond Queneau, EXERCISES IN STYLE
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Examinations and Assignments:
Several short writing assignments, including exercises in interviewing and profiles, and a longer final project. |
| Instructor(s): Greene,Anne F. Novic,Sara Times: .....F. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: DWNY100; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 4 | FR: 4 |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
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