300-Level Course, Winter 2005

Course Descriptions (as of 10 December 2004)
The following course descriptions have been written by individual instructors to provide more detailed information on specific section sthan that found in the General Catalog. When individual descriptions are not available, the General Catalog descriptions [in brackets] are used. (Although we try to have as accurate and complete information as possible, this schedule remains subject to change.)

First Week Attendance
Because of heavy demand for many English classes, students who do not attend all reguarly-scheduled meetings during the first week of the quarter may be dropped from their classes by the department. If students are unable to attend at any point during the first week, they should contact their instructors ahead of time. The Department requests that instructors make reasonable accommodations for students with legitimate reasons for being absent; HOWEVER, THE FINAL DECISION RESTS WITH THE INSTRUCTOR AND SPACE IS NOT GUARANTEED FOR ABSENT STUDENTS EVEN IF THEY CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR IN ADVANCE. (Instructors' phone numbers and e-mail addresses can be obtained by calling the Main English Office, (206) 543-2690 or the Undergraduate Advising Office, (206) 543-2634.)

304 A (History of Literary Criticism & Theory II)
MW 1:30-3:20
Chaudhary
zahidc@u.washington.edu

This course will provide students with a basic overview of contemporary literary and cultural theory, by introducing them to some of its ongoing debates and concerns. We will seek to understand the tensions and overlap between various schools of thought, from structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and postcolonial theory. Among other issues, we will examine the relationships between language and authorship, theory and politics, identity and ideology. Along the way, we will also explore the social, political, and cultural stakes involved in theorizing. The focus will remain on the close reading of texts, on developing reading strategies that enable one to explore how texts – whether literary or theoretical – make their meaning.

310A (The Bible as Literature)
M-Th 8:30
Griffith
jgriff@u.washington.edu
A rapid study of readings from both the Old and New Testaments, focusing primarily on those parts of the Bible with the most “literary” interest – narratives, poems and philosophy. Students will be expected to attend class regularly, keep up with reading assignments, and take part in open discussion. Written work will consist entirely of a series of in-class essays done in response to study questions handed out in advance. Text: Michael Coogan, ed., New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3rd ed.

315 A (Literary Modernism)
TTh 10:30-12:20
La Guardia
ehl@u.washington.edu
[Various modern authors, from Wordsworth to the present, in relation to such major thinkers as Kant, Hegel, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Wittgenstein, who have helped create the context and the content of modern literature. Recommended: ENGL 230 or one 300-level course in 19th or 20th century literature.] Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Beckett, Endgame; Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground; Mann, Death in Venice; Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Kafka, The Metamorphosis; Ibsen, Hedda Gabler; Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents; Malraux, Man’s Fate.

320 A English Literature: the Middle Ages)
MW 2:30-4:20
Coldewey
jcjc@u.washington.edu
[Literary culture of Middle Ages in England, as seen in selected works from earlier and later periods, ages of Beowulf and of Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in translation, except for a few later works, which are read in Middle English.] Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (tr. Green); Richard Hamer, ed., A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse; Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (ed. Hieatt & Hieatt); Marie Borroff, tr., Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl: Verse Translation; Sir Thomas Malory, King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales (ed. Vinaver); A. C. Cawley, ed., Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays; The Holy Bible (King James Version); Albert C. Labriola & John Smeltz, eds., The Bible of the Poor.

321TS (Chaucer)
MW 4:30-6:20
Remley
remley@u.washington.edu
[Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other poetry, with attention to Chaucer's social, historical, and intellectual milieu.] (NOTE: ENGL 321TS is available only to Evening Degree and non-matriculated students; for information contact UW Educational Outreach, (206) 543-2320.) Texts: Chaucer, The Riverside Chaucer (ed. Benson); Love Visions (tr. Stone); Trolius and Criseyde (tr. Coghill); Canterbury Tales, (tr. Hieatt & Hieatt).

322 (English Literature: the Age of Queen Elizabeth)
Th 9:30-11:20
Easterling
heasterl@u.washington.edu
In this course we will survey Elizabethan literature and culture by way of a set of texts all concerned, in one way or another, and by more and less explicit means, with the fashioning of society and of those within it. Through prose, poetry, and drama, we will consider Elizabethan literary reflections on civility and what disorders it most. Significant writing alongside our course readings. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing; Henry IV, Part I; Damrosch, et al., eds., The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 1B; More, Utopia.

323 A (Shakespeare to 1603)
MW 1:30-3;20
Streitberger
streitwr@u.washington.edu
Shakespeare's career as dramatist before 1603 (including Hamlet). Study of history plays, comedies, and tragedies. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Text: Bevington, ed., Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5th ed.

328 A (English Literature: Later 18th C.)
MW 8:30-10:20
Olsen
elenao@u.washington.edu
In this course, we will read literature of the period formerly known as the “Age of Johnson.” It has also been known as the “Age of Sensibility” and the “Pre-Romantic” era. All of these titles are limited and limiting, and we’ll examine the why and how of all of them by reading poetry and some prose of the period. This was a time when the idea of authorship was in flux, and undergoing changes that led to modern conceptions of creativity and literature. Authors include: Samuel Johnson, Edward Young, Christopher Smart, William Cowper, Ann Yearsley, Hannah More, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Abrams, et al., eds., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1-C; Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield.

329 A (Rise of the English Novel)
MW 1:30-3:20
Popov
popov@u.washington.edu
This course will introduce you to three exemplary early novels: Don Quixote, Joseph Andrews, and Tristram Shandy. In addition, you’ll read extensive excerpts from the works of Rabelais, Bunyan, Defoe, Richardson, and others. Discussions will focus on the poetics of the novel as a literary genre (forms, conventions, functions, affinities with other genres, etc.); we’ll also look at some broad cultural issues associated with the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England. This is an upper-level English course with a heavy reading load: you must read the first half of Don Quixote before the first meeting. Requirements and grading: brief assignments on each major novel, quizzes, participation, attendance (20% of your course grade), midterm (40%), final examination (40%). Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Cervantes, Don Quixote (tr. Rutherford); Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress; Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela; Sterne, Tristram Shandy; photocopied course packet (available at the beginning of the quarter).

330 A (English Literature: the Romantic Age)
MW 2:30-4:20
Halmi
nh2@u.washington.edu
An examination of the "visual culture" of British Romanticism. Three manifestations of visual culture will be emphasized: visual media (prints, paintings, etc.), the visualization of nature in prose and poetry (especially through the concepts of the sublime and picturesque), and the description of art objects (including architecture) in poetry. Authors to be studied include Burke, Charlotte Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy Shelley, and Keats; visual artists include Blake, Constable, Turner, and Friedrich. Course web page: http://faculty.washington.edu/nh2/classes/330-05.htm Majors only, Registration Period 1.

331 A (Romantic Poetry I)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Searle
lsearle@u.washington.edu
[Blake, Worsworth, Coleridge, and their contemporaries.] Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: William Blake, Complete Poetry; Modiano & Halmi, eds., Coleridge's Poetry and Prose; Wordsworth, Selected Poems.

333 A (English Novel: Early & Middle 19th C.)
TTh 8:30-10:20
Dunn
dickd@u.washington.edu
With attention to major writings by Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, and Charles Dickens, this course will take its cues from the first line of the first novel. Pride and Prejudice begins, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man possessed of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The matters of singleness and matrimony, possession and being possessed, and of wealth and/or luck are major concerns for conversation about individuality, gender, and class in and among Austen’s novel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations. Class discussion will center on these topics, and there will be a midterm, 6-10 page paper, and final exam. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol; Great Expectations.

335 A (English Literature: the Age of Victoria)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Butwin
joeyb@u.washington.edu
Anxiety and Eccentricty in Victorian England. At the very beginning of the Victorian period, the narrator of Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus (1833) was to ask himself – and by extension each of his readers, “What art thou afraid of?” This question and its many answers will set the direction of our study of Victorian literature. Both the initial question and its many answers should be familiar to anyone who had grown up in this country at any time during the past 70 years: terror in the imperial hinterlands, the threat of revolution at home (on the streets, in the kitchen, sitting room or bedroom); sex, drink, drugs; deadly epidemics, economic and emotional depression … and more of the national anxiety that appears to spawn some of these very problems. Not Carlyle but two of his sometime disciples, John Stuart Mill and Charles Dickens, will be our guides to Victorian anxiety, repression, and one curious upshot – personal eccentricity – which we will track from the 1850s down to the end of the period in the 1880s and 1890s, from the oddities of Lewis Carrol’s “Wonderland” and Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” to dark interiors of Stevenson’s Mr. Hyde and Wilde’s Dorian Gray. Lecture, discussion, short essays, and a final exam. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities; J. S. Mill, On Liberty and Other Writings; Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland; Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market; R. L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; The Picture of Dorian Gray.

338 A (Modern Poetry)
TTh 1:30-3:20
Walker
codyw@u.washington.edu
“The Glacier Knocks in the Cupboard”: Modern Poetry. We’ll read poems such as W. H. Auden’s “As I Walked Out One Evening” (from which our course takes its title), Robert Frost’s “In a Disused Graveyard,” and Marianne Moore’s “The Wood-Weasel.” We’ll seek out work that’s glittering and unsettling. Expect appearances by W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, Wallace Stevens, and others. We’ll use two anthologies: The Penguin Book of English Verse, ed. By Paul Keegan, and American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. 1 (Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker). These books should be purchased at Open Books: A Poem Emporium, located at 2414 N. 45th St. Open Books is one of only two poetry-only bookstores in the country. If you’re a student of poetry and you live in Seattle, you should feel obligated, I think, to darken their doorstep. Majors only, Registration Period 1.

342 TS (Contemporary Novel)
MW 7-8:50 pm
Reddy
ccreddy@u.washington.edu
[Recent efforts to change the shape and direction of the novel by such writers as Murdoch, Barth, Hawkes, Fowles, and Atwood.] NOTE: ENGL 342TS is available only to Evening Degree and non-matriculated students; for information contact UW Educational Outreach, (206) 543-2320) Texts: Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Cunningham, The Hours; Morrison, The Bluest Eye; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Hagedorn, Dogeaters; Ali, Brick Lane.

343 A (Contemporary Poetry)
TTh 11:30-1:20
Reed
bmreed@u.washington.edu
This course provides an overview of the kinds of poetry published in the United States since World War II. We will be looking at many of the genre's superstars--John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich--but we will be spending as much or more time with lesser known but no less fascinating figures--Jayne Cortez, Bernadette Mayer, Lyn Hejinian, Etheridge Knight, and Ron Silliman. We will be discussing the period's principle movements--the likes of the Beats, the Black Arts Movement and Language Poetry--as well as concentrating on thematic topics, such as the flurry of anti-Vietnam War verse from the later 1960s. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Text: Hoover, Paul, ed., Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

345 A (Studies in Film)
M-Th 2:30-4:20
Gillis-Bridges
kgb@u.washington.edu

In this class we will analyze how and why films tell stories by focusing on films that portray the relationship between humans and technology. We will examine how such films both draw on and shape contemporary cultural conceptions of technology. Our investigation of the visual language filmmakers use to represent technology will involve a review of formal film terms. However, we will go beyond formal analysis to address the historical, social, and ideological contexts at play in films about technology. Course films will include Metropolis, Modern Times, Man with a Movie Camera, The Matrix, T2, and others. Texts: David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction, 7th ed.; photocopied course packet (available at Professional Copy N' Print on the northeast corner of 42nd and University Way..

350 TS (Traditions in American Fiction)
TTh 4:30-6:20
Liu
msmliu@u.washington.edu
This course is organized around the theme of “roots and revisitations.” The quarter is divided according to three subjects: slavery, justice, and social control. Within each subject, we will read an iconic novel from the time of the American Renaissance, and compare how that same topic is revisited in the contemporary era. These pairings will allow us to trace how American literature’s long-standing contemplation of certain topics is key to understanding the forces that bond our nation, and at what costs. NOTE: ENGL 350TS is available only to Evening Degree and non-matriculated students; for information contact UW Educational Outreach, (206) 543-2320). Texts: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life…; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Octavia Butler, Kindred; Herman Melville, Billy Budd and Other Stories; Philip Roth, The Human Stain; Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance.

353 TS (American Literature: Later 19th C.)
TTh 7-8:50 pm
Abrams
rabrams@u.washington.edu
We will concentrate on major American writers and their efforts to create satisfying art during an especially interesting period in American history. How these authors responded to a variety of traumas, jolts, and anxieties--the Civil War, the accelerating rate of growth and technological change, the rise of commercialism, the waning of old values, the new discoveries of science--will be the subject of the course. Probably two papers of reasonable length and a final exam. (NOTE: ENGL 353TS is available only to Evening Degree and non-matriculated students; for information contact UW Educational Outreach, (206) 543-2320.) Texts: W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk; Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems; Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Henry James, The Portable Henry James; Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories; Stephen Crane, The Portable Stephen Crane; Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories.

354 A (American Literature: the Early Modern Period)
TTh 9:30-11:20
Shulman
rshulman@u.washington.edu
The innovations of pre-World War I modernists, the devastation of the war, the Depression and its political and cultural impact, the realities of American racial practices, the threat of fascism and an impending World War II all animate the literature we will be reading. I hope for lively class discussion of this challenging material. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Hemingway, In Our Time; Williams, Imaginations; Le Sueur, Salute to Spring; Faulkner, The Hamlet; Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here; Dos Passos, The Big Money; Wright, Native Son; recommended: Herbst, Starched Blue Sky of Spain.

355 A (American Literature: Contemporary America)
MW 2:30-4:20
Merola
nmerola@u.washington.edu
The Very Very Contemporary: American Literature after 2000. In 1996 novelist Jonathan Franzen published an essay in Harper's Magazine entitled "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, A Reason to Write Novels." As the subtitle indicates, in the essay Franzen meditates on the place of the novel in late twentieth century American culture. Early in the piece, he explicitly laments the devalued position of serious fiction in contemporary culture: "Exactly how much less novels now matter to the American mainstream than they did when Catch-22 was published is anybody's guess. Certainly there are very few American milieus today in which having read the latest work of Joyce Carol Oates or Richard Ford is more valuable, as social currency, than having caught the latest John Travolta movie or knowing how to navigate the Web." Luckily for us, this course is a location in which having read the very latest American fiction is the highest form of social and cultural capital.

This course is structured as a survey of seven very recent American novels that take the issues of history and identity as their primary concerns. Our project throughout the quarter will be to critique and contextualize the particular ways each of these novels reflects and refracts contemporary culture. Additionally, taking Franzen's exploration of the place of fiction in contemporary culture seriously, we will also attempt to adjudicate for ourselves the value and function of the contemporary American novel. The reading load for this course is quite heavy; our shortest novel is 224 pages and the longest is 544 pages. Thus, the course requires from you an especial willingness to persevere. Other course requirements include active and consistent verbal participation, response papers, a presentation, and a final paper. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Susan Choi, American Woman; Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis; Louise Erdrich, Four Souls; Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex; Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake; Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude; Philip Roth, The Plot Against America.

359 A (Contemporary American Indian Literature)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Million
dianm@u.washington.edu
“Speaking for the sake of the land and the people means speaking for the inextricable relationship and interconnection between them,” says Simon Ortiz from Speaking for the Generations. Native peoples in the Pacific Northwest bring a millennia-long tradition of expressive celebration interwoven with life as it is known in this place. Indigenous memory, land and experience have informed a literature written by at least two generations of American Indian writers in this region. In this class participants will explore contemporary American Indian literature and in particular those Northwest Native American writers where this “inextricable relationship” is most apparent. Native peoples of our region take the English language and reinvent it to infuse their own specific meaning of “place.” By reinventing and enriching all possible meanings of the co-inheritance of our many histories in this often-contested “crossroads” of the world, American Indian literature at the cusp of the twenty-first century is a literature that demands responsible action towards relations and life, human and non-human. Majors only, Registration Period 1. (Offered jointly w. AIS 377A)

367 A (Women and the Literary Imagination)
MW 12:30-2:20
Veronica Browning
vernb@u.washington.edu

Passion and Possession. This course will examine the complexities, nuances, pleasures and dangers associated with the ideas of passion and possession as presented by contemporary women writers (Katherine Dunn, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, A.S. Byatt, and Octavia Butler) and directors (Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion). Texts: Winterson, The Passion; Carter, Love; Byatt, Possession; Butler, Kindred; Dunn, Geek Love.

368 A (Women Writers)
TTh 1:30-3:20
Kaplan
sydneyk@u.washington.edu

British Women Writers of the Nineteen-Twenties. This course will consider the situation of women writers in Britain during the decade following World War One, a decade known both for experimentation in literary technique and new attitudes about women’s roles and sexuality. We will read fiction by May Sinclair, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rosamond Lehmann, Jean Rhys, and Radcliffe Hall. Texts: Sinclair, Life and Death of Harriett Frean; Mansfield, The Garden Party; Woolf, To the Lighthouse; Warner, Lally Willowes; Lehmann, Dusty Answer; Rhys, Quartet; Hall, The Well of Loneliness.

370 A (English Language Study)
MW 10:30-12:20
Vaughan
miceal@u.washington.edu
NOTE: For WINTER 2005, concurrent enrollment in ENGL 373 required. (tudents should register for ENGL 370 first; they will then be able to register for ENGL 373. Both 370 and 373 must be taken Winter Quarter.)

ENGL 370 is a beginning course in the study of language which will introduce students to analytical approach to the study of languages, and specifically to the English language. The course will provide the terminology and tools to permit the careful analysis and comparison of various kinds of languages and their use. ENGL 373 is a beginning course in the study of the history of the English language. That study presupposes a familiarity with the analytical terminology mentioned above, with which we will be able to examine the ways in which English has changed in sounds, form, usage, lexicon, and structure, from time to time and place to place. The two courses are being offered in conjunction and require that a student enroll (and maintain enrollment) in both in order to receive a grade in either. Register first for ENGL 370, and then registration in ENGL 373 will be allowed. Coordinating the two courses, it is hoped, will result in more efficient use of time and information, and make it possible for more to be accomplished than might be possible otherwise. The requirements for the courses will include keeping up with the reading and participating in the class discussions and exercises. There will be weekly quizzes, and a final exam. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Edward Finegan, Language: Its Structure and Use (for 370); David Crystal, The Stories of English (for 373).

373 A (History of the English Language)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Vaughan
miceal@u.washington.edu
NOTE: For Winter 2005, concurrent enrollment with 370A required. Students must enroll in both 370 and 373 -- students who have already taken ENGL 370 may not repeat 370 for credit, and may not sign up for 373 alone. Students should register for ENGL 370 first; then they will be able to register for ENGL 373.

ENGL 370 is a beginning course in the study of language which will introduce students to analytical approach to the study of languages, and specifically to the English language. The course will provide the terminology and tools to permit the careful analysis and comparison of various kinds of languages and their use. ENGL 373 is a beginning course in the study of the history of the English language. That study presupposes a familiarity with the analytical terminology mentioned above, with which we will be able to examine the ways in which English has changed in sounds, form, usage, lexicon, and structure, from time to time and place to place. The two courses are being offered in conjunction and require that a student enroll (and maintain enrollment) in both in order to receive a grade in either. Students should register first for ENGL 370; then registration in ENGL 373 will be allowed. Coordinating the two courses, it is hoped, will result in more efficient use of time and information, and make it possible for more to be accomplished than might be possible otherwise. The requirements for the courses will include keeping up with the reading and participating in the class discussions and exercises. There will be weekly quizzes, and a final exam. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Edward Finegan, Language: Its Structure and Use (for 370); David Crystal, The Stories of English (for 373).

381 A (Advanced Expository Writing)
MW 8:30 – 10:20
Goh

boongoh@u.washington.edu
[Concentration on the development of prose style for experienced writers.] Majors only, Registration Period 1.

381 B (Advanced Expository Writing)
MW 12:30-2:20
Liu
msmliu@u.washington.edu
Marco Polo and Mark Twain are just a couple examples of travel writers who, through their rendition of faraway locations in persuasive prose, radically altered how readers pictured the world. Through descriptions of people encountered and landscapes traversed, travel writers familiarize, exoticize, or destabilize the unknown in order to transform places into cultural significant landmarks in the imagination of their armchair readers. As a genre, travel writing is an excellent illustration of the immediate power of prose and lends itself well to the study of the effective use of words. In this class, we will analyze some signature pieces of this genre as a way to develop our own prose styles. Classwork will consist of discussion of various essays and peer critiques of student writing. Assigned texts: The Best American Travel Writing 2004, ed. Pico Iyer (required) and The Travel Writer’s Handbook by Louise Purwin Zobel (optional). Majors only, Registration Period 1.

383 A (Intermediate Verse Writing)
MW 1:30-2:50
Fanning
rogerfan@u.washington.edu
Students will begin by doing some exercises to discover material, move on to writing poems, and end by revising their most promising work. Throughout the quarter we’ll be examining closely a number of poems notable for their music, imagination, and humor. The goal is for students to learn to listen to poems, their own and others’, line by line, word by word, sound by sound. Class participation will count for 50% of the final grade. Prerequisite: ENGL 283. Majors only, Registration Period I. Text: Nims/Mason, Western Wind.

383 B (Intermediate Verse Writing)
TTh 2:30-3:50
McNamara
rmcnamar@u.washington.edu
This course will involve intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem. We’ll write poems to assignments focused on form, we’ll memorize poems and recite them, and we’ll spend time developing our abilities as tactful critics of each others’ poems. And we will revise, revise, revise. Prerequisite: ENGL 283. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Text: Strand & Boland, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms.

384 A (Intermediate Short Story Writing)
MW 3:30-4:50
Loader
chrissay@u.washington.edu
Whereas the 200-level Creative Writing courses concentrate more on fundamentals and basic vocabulary (e.g. character, plot, and dialogue), English 384 presupposes a familiarity with these elements, reinforces and expands application of them, and moves to larger discussions of story movement, story pacing, thematic resonance, and aesthetics.

Specifically, this course will address these questions:
• What shapes can stories take, and how can a writer think about the overall shape of his or her story?
• What role should theme play in the generation of stories, and how can theme express itself in stories?
• What are the differences between traditional and experimental expressions of theme in stories?
• Along with plot, how else do stories "move?"

Prerequisite: ENGL 284. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Julie Checkoway, ed., Creating Fiction; Nicholas Delbanco, The Sincerest Form: Writing Fiction by Imitation.

384 B (Intermediate Short Story Writing)
TTh 9:30-10:20
Heckman
doug_heckman@yahoo.com

This class continues the introduction to the fiction writing series through the study and practice of the short story. In this course, we will test the notion that the best teacher of writing is writing. In addition, we will test the notion that the second best teacher of writing is reading. Therefore, you can expect to complete a myriad of short writing exercises and read a glorious amount of short fiction. In addition to writing exercises, you will be responsible for two short stories, one of which you will revise as your final work of the quarter. Class discussions will be based on in-hand manuscripts and the specific problems and concerns that you, as a writer, bring to the table. Prerequisite: ENGL 284. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Text: Photocopied course packet.

384 C (Intermediate Short Story Writing)
TTh 12:30-1:50
Loader
chrissay@u.washington.edu

Whereas the 200-level Creative Writing courses concentrate more on fundamentals and basic vocabulary (e.g. character, plot, and dialogue), English 384 presupposes a familiarity with these elements, reinforces and expands application of them, and moves to larger discussions of story movement, story pacing, thematic resonance, and aesthetics.

Prerequisite: ENGL 284. Majors only, Registration Period 1. Texts: Julie Checkoway, ed., Creating Fiction; Nicholas Delbanco, The Sincerest Form: Writing Fiction by Imitation.

WINTER 2005 300-Level Courses

WINTER 2005
300-Level Courses