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Fiction Writing |
ENGLISH 57B, 157B
Twentieth-Century Short Cuts
3-4
units
Time: see http://axess.stanford.edu
Explore the powers of brevity. Reading in prose and poetry, mostly American: parables (Kafka, Borges); very short stories (Hemingway, Williams, Ozick, Oates); microfictions (Edson, Dybek, Bernhard, Shepard, Chine); fictionalized letters (Last Letters from Stalingrad); suicide notes (Woolf, O.J. Simpson, Cobain); fragmented history (Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain); poems of compression (J.V. Cunningham, Anne Carson, W.C. Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ronald Johnson). Students' written work also experiments with brevity, taking the paragraph as the basic unit.
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ENGLISH 90
Fiction Writing
5
units
Time: see http://axess.stanford.edu
The elements of fiction writing: narration, description, and dialogue. Students write complete stories and participate in story workshops. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: PWR 1 or similar writing experience.
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