ENGL 7850

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ENGL 7850
Reading for Writers

Course information provided by the 2018-2019 Catalog.

In general, Reading for Writers examines literary works through the eyes of a writer, focusing on the craft of literature. While the class is geared toward MFA students, all graduate students are welcome to enroll. Topics vary with each section and semester.


When Offered Fall.

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Revolution

  •  5858 ENGL 7850   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    This course will look at writers, living and dead, whose work does something so unusual--in the form it defines for itself, in its choice of subject, in its construction of voice, or the conversation it initiates with other art forms--that it may alter the way we think about what fiction can do or be. Readings will include short stories (including some flash, sudden or minute fiction) and novels (plus an occasional foray into poetry) and may include works by Donald Barthelme, Jamaica Kincaid, Willa Cather, Junot Díaz, Edgar Allan Poe, Lydia Davis, W. G. Sebald, Italo Calvino, Denis Johnson, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, and W. G. Sebald.