CRWR 323 - Experiments in Narrative Fiction

FC ARHU WINT PRAX

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. CRWR 300-level courses are primarily for CRWR majors, and prospective minors; at times, a seat may be available for a student who is neither a major nor a minor, but has completed the prerequisites. The form to note one’s interest in a CRWR 300 is due right after the mid-semester break in the previous semester.

Prerequisites: two 200-level courses in CRWR.