This course will explore special advanced topics in creative writing, including an exploration of the line between fiction and nonfiction narratives; surrealist and magical realist writing; sophisticated plotting techniques; and evoking mood in narrative. Selected writings will include, among others, short stories by Andrea Barrett, Anton Chekov, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Richard Bausch, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Nikolai Gogol, E. P. Jones, William Faulkner, and Edgar Allen Poe; and nonfiction by Paul Auster, Truman Capote, Oliver Sacks, Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud, and Alice Miller. This course has demanding reading and writing requirements. |