Place, Character, and Design: Techniques in Writing Nonfiction and Fiction (FYS)
ENGL 190F
Fall 2021
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01
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We begin this writing course with questions central to students' work in both nonfiction and fiction: how to establish characters and a narrator's voice and how to frame the spatial and emotional world of the piece. The course encourages students to explore questions of design and structure while focusing also on style and technique at the sentence level. This creative writing course explores features of narrative and design that are central to work in fiction and creative nonfiction. We will also compare the design of college papers, written for academic courses, with pieces written for general readers. Readings include works by writers interested in these questions, including, in fiction, Andre Aciman, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry James, Robert Stone, Deborah Eisenberg, and Edward P. Jones, and, in nonfiction, Brian Doyle, Junichiro Tanizaki, Joan Didion, Charles Bowden, Mark Doty, Linh Dinh, Dubravka Ugresic, and George Orwell. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Creative W)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYS |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
THE ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY, ed. Lopate
ISBN-13: 978-0385422987
O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0307280343
20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker
ISBN-13: 978-0374532871
Michael Ondaatje, IN THE SKIN OF A LION
ISBN-13: 978-0679772668
Vivian Gornick, FIERCE ATTACHMENTS
ISBN-13: 978-0374529963
Joan Didion, SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM
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Examinations and Assignments:
Short exercises and a longer project, with an emphasis on narrative and observation in nonfiction. The choice of assignments will include a short profile or character sketch, personal essay, family history, explanatory piece, or interview-based article. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
It is highly recommended that students be enrolled in only one Creative Writing course in a semester. If you are admitted to more than one Creative Writing course, we request you choose one and let the instructors know during Adjustment Period. Please be serious about your choice for the consideration of instructors and other students.
For the Writing Certificate this course counts as a craft course with a workshop component. |
| Instructor(s): Greene,Anne F. Times: .M.W... 08:20AM-09:40AM; Location: DWNY100; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 3 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 15 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 8 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 7 |
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