JWST 279 - Jewish Shorts: Creative Writing and Reading

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Creative Writing
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
New course added 05.05.10.

This course combines critical reading of fiction with creative writing. We will analyze a range of modern Jewish short stories (in the original English or in translation) by Agnon, Kafka, Malamud, Roth, Etgar Keret, Castel-Bloom, Woody Allen, Michael Chabon and others, about the bizarre, surreal, grotesque and offbeat; students will develop their own short creative works using ideas and techniques encountered in these texts, with a focus on theme, form, voice, imagery and motif.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: K. Rubinstein
Consent of the Instructor Required? No