CRWR 287 - Voice, Mood, and Tone

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

All of us have experienced tonal differences between different literary works, but how do we describe them and come to understand how and why writers make specific choices about conveying their subject matter? What might an author gain or lose by choosing to tell her story in the first person or a limited third person? This course introduces students to diverse contemporary authors as it disambiguates literary voice, mood, and tone from one another and explores the choices authors make about using them. Through imitative exercises and longer, workshopped short stories, students will try out multiple ways to tell their own stories.

Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: A. Hyde