COURSE DESCRIPTION     this is an introductory course on writing fiction. we will be investigating the practice and process of writing: what counts as writing. why i write. how i write. from when i write. to whom i write. with what i write. of what i write. about what. toward what. who speaks. who has the word. who takes. where is the word in the text. what does the word take. what comes to be text. there will be weekly writing assignments, presentations, readings, and a final project which involves making multiple copies of your own chapbook.

REQUIRED TEXTS

• fleur jaeggy / sweet days of discipline, 101 pgs. $10.95, New Directions Publishing Corporation
• selah saterstrom / the pink institution, 140 pgs., $15.00, Coffee House Press
• danielle dutton / attempts at a life, 78 pgs., $14.00, Tarpaulin Sky Press
• charles baudelaire / paris spleen, 118 pgs., $11.95, New Directions Publishing Corporation
• claro / electric flesh, 144 pgs., $13.00, Soft Skull Press
• rebecca brown / the terrible girls, 136 pgs., $11.95, City Lights Books
• cristina peri rossi / the museum of useless efforts, 156 pgs., 15.00, Bison Books
• cesar aira / how i became a nun, 128 pgs., 13.95, New Directions
• miranda july / no one belongs here more than you, 224 pgs, $23.00, Scribner

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NOTE ABOUT RESERVES

books are on reserve at the Rock (in-library use); you can check the course reserves on OCRA

SCHEDULE

DATE	READING	WRITING	WORKSHOP
JANUARY 28	first day	favorites	n/a
FEBRUARY 4	Selah Saterstrom	text/image	GROUP 1
FEBRUARY 11	Fleur Jaeggy	diary	GROUP 2
FEBRUARY 25	Cesar Aira	autobiography	GROUP 3
MARCH 3	Danielle Dutton	one page novel	GROUP 1
MARCH 10	Charles Baudelaire	city	GROUP 2
MARCH 17	Claro	visit john hay	GROUP 3
MARCH 31	Miranda July	visit john hay	film
APRIL 7	Miranda July	dialogue	GROUP 1
APRIL 14	Rebecca Brown	archive	GROUP 2
APRIL 21	Cristina Peri Rossi	-	GROUP 3
APRIL 28	final presentaions	-	-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall 2007 Intermediate Fiction syllabus | Literary Arts, Brown University, Rhode Island