Fiction: The Novella
(Creative Writing)
Instructor:
Alan Lelchuk, Creative Writing
Schedule:
Tuesdays, 3 – 6pm
Location:
Description:
This writing workshop will focus primarily on the longer fictional forms (the novella and the long story). Writing experience is preferred, but is not a prerequisite. Emphasis will be placed on student work, but a good number of published stories and novellas will be looked at as well. Classes will be mostly discussions, analyses, and readings. The aims of the course are to help the young writer understand and practice the longer forms of fiction, to read those forms more judiciously and from a writer’s point of view, and to raise his/her own levels of prose to a high literary standard.
Course requirement:
A novella or two long stories (and revisions); approximately 50-75pp of writing
Readings:
Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
Porter, Katherine Anne Noon Wine.
Oe, Kenzaburo Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
Updike, John Of The Farm
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle Bella Vista
Kawabata, Y House of The Sleeping Beauties.
Bellow, Saul Seize the Day or The Old System
Tolstoy, Leo The Death of Ivan Ilych
O’Conner, Flannery Wise Blood
Gogol, N The Overcoat
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