English 891G - S-Form and Theory of Fiction

How do our most propulsive novels undo both ambition and voice? What aspects of unraveling make us care for a character or milieu? What makes up our contemporary sensibility regarding containment, unraveling, the diasporic, the archipelagic? This seminar for writers will help us consider how great work undoes its premises. Dramaturgy, theory, and concepts such as those of the technoself will help us consider forms of social interaction, while we read novels such as those by Adam, Aw, Buckley, Choi, Desai, Kitamura, Markovits, Miller, Orner, Reva, Szalay, Wood, and Xhoga. Presentations, writing (creative/analytic), and field trips will aid our exploration. Permission to enroll in the course is required for those outside the MFA.

This class is open to English graduate students only. Sub-title: The Novella