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Current and Past Course Offerings
Fall 2004 - Fall 2008
SESSION A For this seminar, we will focus on the craft of the short short story through 1. readings for models/prompts/ideas from Crafting the Very Short Story and Reader 2. workshops for which you will be writing both in-class and take-home assignments. The seminar will be organized as a combination of oral presentations, discussions on readings, workshops to generate writing, and small group work on responses to students' drafts. You are expected to attend every workshop, to participate in all its activities, to do the required readings and individual and group assignments, and to write. We will read a range of stories by selected authors and additional materials you may wish to share with the group. The readings offer models of story-telling strategies for generating unity, surprise, suspense, mystery, characterization, and meanings: strategies such as point-of-view, direct and reported dialogue, irony, flashback, foreshadowing, imagery and symbol, and so forth. They also offer examples of registers of language stylistics with reference to your own writing. These readings will form half of the materials for class presentations, the other half being the stories you will be producing during this quarter. Oral presentations will be assigned to individual participants, and written responses will form the core of the reading journals to be submitted twice in the summer session. You will work toward producing a portfolio of short short stories (three revised or four or more in a combination of revised and first draft form, of between two to ten double-spaced typed pages each). A. The class time will be structured around small-group and collaborative discussion, revision and editing. All seminar sessions will be composed of a combination of activities, including: 1. reading aloud selections of prose passages or your own work 2. oral presentations 3. discussions of the forms and strategies of individual stories 4. in-class writing small group workshops/writing clinics on participants' stories Required Texts: Mills, Mark Crafting the Very Short Story: An Anthology of 100 Masterpieces Prentice Hall A three-ring binder serving as your reading journal. A Reader Instructor(s): Shirley Geok-lin Lim Time(s): Time: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 11:00 am-12:30 pm Place(s): Bldg. 494, Rm. 143B << Back |
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