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| ENGLISH 10 | STORIES OF STORIES | BARTLETT, J. | This course explores stories that take storytelling itself as their subject. We’ll consider story collections, frame stories, nested stories, and other kinds of metafiction that trouble the boundaries between fiction and reality, inviting readers to consider how stories incorporate, make reference to, and affect the meaning of other stories. |
| ENGLISH 17 | CRAFT OF FICTION | LATIOLAIS, P. | E17, The Craft of Fiction, should be taken before embarking on the Creative Writing Emphasis. The concentration of the course is the study of writing by writers about the process of writing. How have writers viewed their craft; how have they developed their processes; what have their influences been, and at what point did they shed them? Contrary to popular notions of muses, of inspiration, most writers are very hard working. This course studies the thoughtfulness most writers have about the work of writing. Required prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement. |
| ENGLISH 102A | EARLY MODERN SELF | SILVER, V. | From the mid-14th century through the 17th century, British literature arguably begins to focus on what it means to be a self as against a soul--that is, body and mind together composing one human organism, one human person. This idea of our embodied being brings with it a new emphasis on subjective experience as both a challenge and a guide to the nature of truth. But that condition is no longer viewed as something that must be escaped or transcended by reason, intellect, conscience or a spiritual "mens angelicus," but instead as something that must be better understood. The course looks at the literature which enfranchises the body and describes what it brings with it--the rich and uncertain complications of subjective experience: "Gawaine and the Green Knight," Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Montaigne's "Essays," Shakespeare's sonnets and his play, "Twelfth Night." The requirements are two takehome exams. |