CRWR 323 - Experiments in Narrative Fiction

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
This course is interested in narratives that bend, swerve, break, and recombine, sometimes with the goal of remaking old narratives, inserting characters into stories where they don’t belong, or combining fiction with cultural criticism. Students will read experimental, hybrid, and autofictional works, with attention to the distinction among these traditions. Through generative exercises and longer projects for workshop, students will play with incorporating genres like poetics, theory, history, and fantasy into narrative fiction, and maybe even abandon narrative entirely in favor of fragmented, essayistic, or other forms. Admission by application (these are typically due before midterms the previous semester).

Prerequisites: two 200-level courses in CRWR.