Deep” Anthony Doerr “The Beginnings, Exposition Making Shapely Fiction: Critical Response #1 & #2 Due Sept 8 George Saunders “Home” Appointment Occurs in the Past” Sam Lipsyte “This Dialect, Dialogue Making Shapely Fiction: Critical Response #3 & #4 Due Sept 15 Lydia Davis “Men” Country” Joy Williams “The Character, Epiphany, Interior Monologue, Names, Stereotype Making Shapely Fiction: Critical Response #5 & #6 Due Sept 22 the President!” Zadie Smith “Meet Happy Rural Seat of Various View: Lucinda’s Garden” Christine Schutt “A Comedy, Diction, Genre, Grotesque, Metafiction, Stream of Consciousness, Making Shapely Fiction: Style, Voice Critical Response #7 & #8 Due Sept 29 Largesse of the Sea Maiden” Denis Johnson “The Wells Tower “Raw Objective Correlative, Cliché, Description, Imagery, Imagination, Making Shapely Fiction: Places and Place Names, Showing and Telling, Symbolism, Texture Critical Response #9 & #10 Due Oct 6 HOLIDAY: HOMECOMING Oct 13 Arms and Legs of the Lake” Mary Gaitskill “The Workshop Atmosphere, Cliff-hanger, Crisis, Episode, Frame story, Plot, Premise, Scene, Making Shapely Fiction: Structure, Tension Critical Response #11 Due Oct 20 Rebecca Lee “Slatland” Workshop Flashback, Imagination, Immediacy, Legend Making Shapely Fiction: Critical Response #12 Due Oct 27 Lost Order” Rivka Galchen “The Workshop Bathos, Catharsis, Cliché, Didacticism, Melodrama, Sentimentality, Subtlety Making Shapely Fiction: Critical Response #13 Due Nov 3 Diggings” Clare Vaye Watkins “The Workshop Trust Your Material, Endings, Revision Making Shapely Fiction: Critical Response #14 Due Nov 10 HOLIDAY: VETERAN’S DAY Nov 17 Till You See Me Deb Olin Unferth “Wait
“The Deep” Anthony Doerr Making Shapely Fiction: Beginnings, Exposition Critical Response #1 & #2 Due Sept 8 “Home” George Saunders “This Appointment Occurs in the Past” Sam Lipsyte Making Shapely Fiction: Dialect, Dialogue Critical Response #3 & #4 Due Sept 15 “Men” Lydia Davis “The Country” Joy Williams Making Shapely Fiction: Character, Epiphany, Interior Monologue, Names, Stereotype Critical Response #5 & #6 Due Sept 22 “Meet the President!” Zadie Smith “A Happy Rural Seat of Various View: Lucinda’s Garden” Christine Schutt Making Shapely Fiction: Comedy, Diction, Genre, Grotesque, Metafiction, Stream of Consciousness, Style, Voice Critical Response #7 & #8 Due Sept 29 “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” Denis Johnson “Raw Wells Tower Making Shapely Fiction: Objective Correlative, Cliché, Description, Imagery, Imagination, Places and Place Names, Showing and Telling, Symbolism, Texture Critical Response #9 & #10 Due Oct 6 HOLIDAY: HOMECOMING Oct 13 “The Arms and Legs of the Lake” Mary Gaitskill Workshop Making Shapely Fiction: Atmosphere, Cliff-hanger, Crisis, Episode, Frame story, Plot, Premise, Scene, Structure, Tension Critical Response #11 Due Oct 20 “Slatland” Rebecca Lee Workshop Making Shapely Fiction: Flashback, Imagination, Immediacy, Legend Critical Response #12 Due Oct 27 “The Lost Order” Rivka Galchen Workshop Making Shapely Fiction: Bathos, Catharsis, Cliché, Didacticism, Melodrama, Sentimentality, Subtlety Critical Response #13 Due Nov 3 “The Diggings” Clare Vaye Watkins Workshop Making Shapely Fiction: Trust Your Material, Endings, Revision Critical Response #14 Due Nov 10 HOLIDAY: VETERAN’S DAY Nov 17 “Wait Till You See Me Deb Olin Unferth
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