Form and Theory of Genre: ____.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. May be repeated for credit. Enrollment is restricted to students in the M.A. in English or M.F.A. in Creative Writing programs. Will address a number of key issues concerning the structure and theory of verse, fiction or creative nonfiction. Will provide readers and writers of these three literary genres an opportunity to study and practice a broad range of forms and techniques, as well as to explore various genre conventions and their thematic and rhetorical significance. Students may study work from various periods, with some focus on the contemporary, and apply to them the insights offered by major theorists of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.