ENGH 608: Craft Seminars
ENGH 608-002: Sentiment without Sentimentality
(Spring 2017)
04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T
Innovation Hall 316
Section Information for Spring 2017
What kind of sincerity is possible in an age of irony? How can prose writers in a post-post-modern era evoke emotion? What strategies and techniques are most effective and powerful? What strategies and techniques don’t work? What is the line between sentiment and sentimentality? Assigned and student-selected readings will be examined to help students define their writing goals and find the best means to achieve them. Writing requirement: 30 pages of prose, either fiction or nonfiction. Reading will include stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, A. M. Homes, and Edward jones, as well as personal essays by Leslie Jamieson and Charles D’Ambrosio.
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Course Information from the University Catalog
Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
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