“Broken Genres” is for adventurous readers interested in experiments with genre -- works that use features of genre to build unfamiliar, often challenging literary experiences. In this class, you'll encounter surreal folk tales, tarot-driven adventures, poststructuralist fantasy, typographic horror, and more (including work by: Octavia Butler, Shirley Jackson, Leonora Carrington, Italo Calvino, Samuel Delany, and Mark Danielewski).
This class is primarily seminar-based, but will include short lectures and workshops. In seminar, we'll discuss assigned readings as complex achievements on their own, but also consider them in relation to a history of experimental literary forms. With the support of writing workshops, you'll take copious notes, write and revise formal responses to texts, and pursue creative explorations of your reading experiences, which can be written, visual, performative, or audio creations. Lectures will provide context for our study and introduce you to the fundamentals of the literary arts, including key questions around narrative and story that motivate academic inquiry and literary scholarship.
Spring Anticipated Credit Equivalencies
8 - Seminar: Introduction to Literary Arts
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writing and literature.