ENGL 7850 - Reading for Writers
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
S. Vaughn.
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.
Fall 2018 Topic:
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.
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