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PRWR 6460-01 Office hours in Humanities 117 = by appointment
Highlight, as advertised during pre-registration: In this course, we will examine short fiction by Sherman Alexie, Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, and Nathan Englander, as well as selections from Paula Geyh's Postmodern American Fiction. Our workshop-collaborative purposes are to read well, talk well, write well, revise and edit well. Every student and the professor will be expected to complete strong drafts of three [lately changed to TWO] stories or one novella. Texts: Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. ISBN 0-06-097624-1. Baxter, Charles. Burning Down the House. St. Paul: Graywolf, 1997. ISBN 1-55597-270-5. Beattie, Ann. Park City: New and Selected Stories. New York: Knopf, 1998; Vintage-Random, 1999. ISBN 0-679-78133-1. Englander, Nathan. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. New York: Knopf, 1999; Vintage-Random, 1999. ISBN 0-375-70443-4. Geyh, Paula, Fred G. Leebron, Andrew Levy, eds. Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. New York: Norton, 1998. ISBN 0-393-31698-X.
Ongoing Bibliography for PRWR 6460, Summer 2000, http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill/fictbibl.htm
Class dates (attendance is expected at all classes for the full time; as it stands, we have only seven meetings in which to approximate a semester-long course): June 6: Craft-Observation-Insight-Language-Stamina; authors to learn from (see "Ongoing Bibliography"); openings by Muriel Spark, Rick Moody; openings and endings by Ann Beattie; forty-minute first-draft writing with two specific requirements: (1) include in opening paragraph one intact sentence from the opening or ending of your assigned Beattie story and (2) include at least three characters, one of whom is unaware of what the other two together think of him or her June 13: Your assigned Beattie story (see "Ongoing Bibliography") and her eight new stories in Park City; Sherman Alexie; Charles Baxter; notes on first drafts from last class; discuss and read aloud our drafts from last class (partners to forward, for posting, notes on each writer's comments); in small groups, edit COILS notes for re-posting as coils2.htm June 20: Nathan Englander; Charles Baxter June 27: Full-length versions of your story #1 for workshop discussions: posted now (6/25/00: 10:45 p.m.) at the following sites. Class members are to print, read, and bring their own copies of these five stories for class discussion June 27:http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill/egan1.htm All other stories are due for class discussion with copies provided by each author for fourteen class members and the professor. (July 4: INDEPENDENCE DAY, NO CLASSES)
Thursday, July 6: First story (3500-5000 words) or full-length draft of novella (7500-15,000 words) due by 6 p.m. in conventional double-spaced manuscript form AND on disk or by attachment for web-site posting and class review.Class members are to print, read, and bring their own copies of these stories for class discussion, beginning July 11. We will discuss your stories--four or five per class--in order as I receive them, as posted below:
July 11: Selections from Paula Geyh's PMAF: Ntozake Shange (42-54), Ishmael Reed (55-65), Audre Lorde (146-52), Toni Morrison (301-06), Sherman Alexie (341-45), Michael Bérubé (595-603), bell hooks (624-31); workshop discussions of students' July 6 fictions July 18: Workshop discussions of students' July 6 fictions July 25: Revision of COILS3; workshop discussions of students' fictions #1 and #2, plus assessing value of works we've read by authors in our texts.1. http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill/coop0725.htm2. http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill/rope0725.htm 3. http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill/rent0723.htm
KSU final exams: July 26-30: Thursday, July 27, 8 p.m.: Second story or novella due (only second stories are posted here, not revisions of first stories, with the exception of Jerome Clark's revised novella) Dr. Hill's stories for this class, as rashly promised, are posted below as "nextkiss.htm" and "hopecct.htm":
[This page created 4 June 2000; last revised, 24 August 2000.--RWH] |
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