Fall 2024 Writing UN3214 section 001

HYBRID NONFICTION FORMS

Call Number 13557
Day & Time
Location
T 12:10pm-2:00pm
511 Kent Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Margo L Jefferson
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. Creative nonfiction is a frustratingly vague term. How do we give it real literary meaning; examine its compositional aims and techniques, its achievements and especially its aspirations? This course will focus on works that we might call visionary - works that combine art forms, genres and styles in striking ways. Works in which image and text combine to create a third interactive language for the reader. Works still termed fiction history or journalism that join fact and fiction to interrogate their uses and implications. Certain memoirs that are deliberately anti-autobiographical, turning from personal narrative to the sounds, sight, impressions and ideas of the writers milieu. Certain essays that join personal reflection to arts and cultural criticism, drawing on research and imagination, the vernacular and the formal, even prose and poetry. The assemblage or collage that, created from notebook entries, lists, quotations, footnotes and indexes achieves its coherence through fragments and associations, found and original texts.
Web Site Vergil
Department Writing
Enrollment 12 students (15 max) as of 9:05PM Friday, December 13, 2024
Subject Writing
Number UN3214
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Fee $15 Creative Writing C
Section key 20243WRIT3214W001