ENG 6370 Literature from the Writer’s Perspective

This course will analyze contemporary literary works from the writer’s perspective in order to focus student writers on the methods, conventions, styles, techniques, and forms in a particular genre of creative writing. In order to enhance the student’s own creative writing endeavors, the course will pay particular attention to the characteristic choices creative writers have made across several eras and literary generations. The course will concentrate on the technical craft of creative writing both from the reader’s and writer’s perspectives. While focusing on how choices and techniques shape a text’s literary quality and significance, the course will situate each model work of literature in its aesthetic and contextual lineage while also measuring the “newness” of popular historical and contemporary literary movements in a particular genre. Depending on the instructor, this course may focus on poetry, drama, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Prerequisite(s): This course will analyze contemporary literary works from the writer’s perspective in order to focus student writers on the methods, conventions, styles, techniques, and forms in a particular genre of creative writing. In order to enhance the student’s own creative writing endeavors, the course will pay particular attention to the characteristic choices creative writers have made across several eras and literary generations. The course will concentrate on the technical craft of creative writing both from the reader’s and writer’s perspectives. While focusing on how choices and techniques shape a text’s literary quality and significance, the course will situate each model work of literature in its aesthetic and contextual lineage while also measuring the “newness” of popular historical and contemporary literary movements in a particular genre. Depending on the instructor, this course may focus on poetry, drama, fiction, or creative nonfiction.

Prerequisites: none
Credits: 3.0