ENGLISH 190V:
Reading for Writers
Taught by the Stein Visiting Fiction Writer. Prerequisite: 90 or 91
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
2020-2021 Spring
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ENGLISH 190V |
5 units |
UG Reqs: None |
Class #
32337
|
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception |
SEM |
Session: 2020-2021 Spring 1
| Remote: Synchronous
| Students enrolled: 13 / 15
03/29/2021 - 06/04/2021 Thu 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM at Remote with Chang, L. (PI)
Instructors: Chang, L. (PI)
Notes: Taught by author Lan Samantha Chang for spring 2021. The Management of Time: Beneath every story, there exists a steady pulse of time. Time is not simply the metronome of narrative. It¿s the medium, the blueprint, or the subject matter of many great works. It is also mysterious. For many writers, it¿s a confounding and exhilarating struggle to fashion stories in a way that is faithful to our personal experience of time. In this class, we will look closely at one collection of short stories and four short novels with the aim of noticing the management of time in each. We¿ll explore various techniques that can be used to create a sense of time in motion on the page. We¿ll also look at narrative time management on a practical level: How can we reveal the unfathomable, multi-dimensional human experience through time in a text that reads from left to right? Is it a contradiction to try to organize a nonlinear narrative? How can we use stories set in separate times to form a larger question? The final project of the course will be a full-length story.n.
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