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Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Introduction |
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2) |
Craft of fiction: What is a story?
Read: Grace Paley, “Wants”
Lydia Davis, “A Man From Her Past"
James Thurber, "Mr. Monroe Outwits a Bat"
Donald Barthelme, "The Zombies"
J.G. Ballard, "Answers To A Questionnaire" |
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3) |
Craft of fiction: Narrative Shapes
Read: Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
Alice Munro, "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship,
Marriage"
Rick Moody, "Boys"
Due: Craft Exercise #1 |
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4) |
Craft of fiction: Characters and their worlds
Read: Anton Chekov, "The Lady with a Little Dog"
James Joyce, "Araby,"
ZZ Packer, "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"
Due: Craft Exercise #2 |
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5) |
Craft of fiction: Voice and Point of View
Read: Junot Diaz, "How to Date a Blackgirl, Browngirl, Whitegirl,
or Halfie"
Charles Baxter, "Gryphon"
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
Due: Craft Exercise #3 |
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6) |
Fiction Workshop: Writers 1-3
Read: Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away From
Omelas"
Due: Workshop Critiques |
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7) |
Craft of fiction: Scene, Dialogue, Conflict, Connection
Read: Lorrie Moore, "Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some
People"
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants"
Raymond Carver "What We Talk About When We Talk
About Love"
Due: Craft Exercise #4
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8) |
Fiction Workshop: Writers 4-7
Due: Workshop Critiques |
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9) |
Craft of fiction: Sources and Adaptations
Read: Angela Carter, "The Bloody Chamber," "The Were-Wolf"
Emma Donoghue, "The Widow's Cruse"
Wells Tower, "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned"
Due: Craft Exercise #5 |
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10) |
Craft of fiction: Through the looking glass
Read: Vladimir Nabokov, "La Veneziana"
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths"
John Barth, "Lost in the Funhouse"
Due: Craft Exercise #6 |
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11) |
Craft of poetry: Sound, Meter, Repetition, Rhyme
Read: Shakespeare, Sonnet 145
Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art"
Paul Muldoon, "It won't ring true"
Lydia Davis, "Head, Heart"
Dr. Suess, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas"
Craft of poetry: Narrative in poetry and poetry in prose
Read: Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red
Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"
Max Jacob, "War"
Charles Simic, from The World Doesn't End
Matsuo Basho, from The Narrow Road to the Interior
Due: Craft Exercise #11 |
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12) |
Craft of poetry: Form and Freedom
Read: John Ashbery, "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a
Landscape"
Haiku
Poems by e.e cummings
Due: Craft Exercise #8 |
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13) |
Craft of poetry: Idea and Voice
Read: Pablo Neruda, from "One Hundred Love Sonnets"
Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Yusef Komunyakaa, "Thanks"
Alan Ginsberg, "Sunflower Sutra"
Jorie Graham, "Prayer"
Due: Craft Exercise #9 |
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14) |
Craft of poetry: Imagery and Evocation
Read: Oscar Wilde, "Symphony In Yellow"
Lydia Davis, "The Fly"
WC Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Li-Young Lee, "This Room And Everything In It"
Mary Oliver, "Rain"
Due: Craft Exercise #10 |
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