Course Outline * Week Topic Indicative Reading 1 Fiction as Dream Aug 13 2 Autobiography Hariharan Aug 20 3 Gedankenexperiment Logan, Kafka Aug 27 4 Character I Chekhov Sept 3 Workshop 5 Character II Nabokov Sept 10 Workshop 6 Narrative Voice Carter, Carver, Calvino, Sept 17 Workshop Twain 7 Structure: Five-part and Epiphany Updike, Saleh, Mishima Sept 24 Workshop 8 Recess Week Oct 1 9 Dialogue Hemingway, Flaubert Oct 8 The Short Story: Origins Calvino Workshop 10 Style Carver, Borges Oct 15 The Short Story: Evolution O Henry, Poe, Maupassant Workshop 11 Suspense Salinger, Ishiguro Oct 22 Workshop 12 Setting Murakami, Callaghan Oct 29 Workshop 13 Metafiction Lee, Matthews, Barth Nov 5 Workshop 14 Last Class: Final Assessment Due Nov 12 *NB. Topics and readings are subject to change depending on the depth of our interests and the speed of our progress.
Course Outline * Week Topic Indicative Reading 1 Aug 13 Fiction as Dream 2 Aug 20 Autobiography Hariharan 3 Aug 27 Gedankenexperiment Logan, Kafka 4 Sept 3 Character I Workshop Chekhov 5 Sept 10 Character II Workshop Nabokov 6 Sept 17 Narrative Voice Workshop Carter, Carver, Calvino, Twain 7 Sept 24 Structure: Five-part and Epiphany Workshop Updike, Saleh, Mishima 8 Oct 1 Recess Week 9 Oct 8 Dialogue The Short Story: Origins Workshop Hemingway, Flaubert Calvino 10 Oct 15 Style The Short Story: Evolution Workshop Carver, Borges O Henry, Poe, Maupassant 11 Oct 22 Suspense Workshop Salinger, Ishiguro 12 Oct 29 Setting Workshop Murakami, Callaghan 13 Nov 5 Metafiction Workshop Lee, Matthews, Barth 14 Nov 12 Last Class: Final Assessment Due *NB. Topics and readings are subject to change depending on the depth of our interests and the speed of our progress.
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