The Personal Eye
ENGL 319
Spring 2009
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This course is intended for both fiction and creative non-fiction writers who would like to explore the many ways of developing a first-person voice in their prose. We will write personal essays, feature pieces, travel essays, memoirs, portraits, first-person narrative fiction, opinion pieces, and, time allowing, review articles and journals. Students will be asked to submit a 500-word prose piece essay every week, in addition to a much longer semester "project," a draft of which will be handed in during the midterm period and final version during finals. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Writing
Regular practice in the craft of writing fiction and creative nonfiction.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
W.G. Sebald, THE EMIGRANTS (New Directions)
Philip Lopate, THE ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY (Anchor)
Andre Aciman, FALSE PAPERS (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Selections of fiction and journal entries to be handed out in class: Pater, James, Lawrence, Woolf, etc.
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| Instructor(s): Aciman,Andre Times: .M..... 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC104; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 8 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 7 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 0 | FR: X |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 4 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 4 |
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