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CRWR 272 - Writing Speculative Fiction


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT

Establishing a home base in literary fiction and its emphasis on complex characters and human pathos and conflict, this class will borrow tools from multiple genres, realism, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and postmodernism to push beyond the familiar limitations and stereotypes of so-called `genre fiction’. The course will be reading intensive, with writing assignments that explore the concepts and techniques therein.Sample authors include Jorge Luis Borges, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Joanna Russ, and others.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: A. Chung


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