Techniques of Fiction [S-15-56]
| Presenter: | Peter Bailey |
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| Location: | SLU: Richardson 104 |
| Classes: | 5 Sessions 1.5 hours |
| Dates: | Thu 10:00 AM 03/12, 03/26, 04/02, 04/09, 04/16 |
| Status: | CLOSEDCourse Update: NEW SEQUENCE OF DAYS NOTICE: "Techniques of Fiction" (new: gap shifted to fit the SLU spring break): 3/12, (gap), 3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16. |
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NOTE: Actual SLU classtime is 10:10-11:40am. Please allow about 10 minutes to walk from your parking spot (at the far end of campus) to get to the classroom in Richardson Hall (on the "quad," just beyond the chapel)
Read short stories by Hemingway, Updike, Oates, and others, while crafting short stories of your own, which you will workshop in class. Join a group of first-year SLU students in learning and applying the techniques of fiction. Cap: 5
Peter Bailey has taught "Techniques of Fiction" at SLU for thirty-five years. This is the first time he is adding a SOAR component in his classroom. Peter has published books on fiction writers Stanley Elkin and John Updike. In addition, Peter has authored the book The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (The University Press of Kentucky, 2003), and more recently he is a co-editor of the book A Companion Woody Allen Never Wanted (Wiley/Blackwell, 2013).
NOTE: 1) This is a participatory class; SOAR students are expected to read the assigned stories from published writers, SLU students’ stories, and one story of their own creation; 2) Assignments are posted below; 3) SOAR students can access the readings by going online to the SLU library. (The needed “course code” and “password” will be sent with your course confirmation).
ASSIGNMENTS:
3/12: Tim O’Brien, "The Things They Carried," Andrea Barrett, "The Littoral Zone"
3/26: John Cheever, "The 5:48," John Updike, "The Morning"
4/2: James Baldwin, "The Outing," "Going to Meet the Man"
4/9: Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," "Heat"
4/16: Alice Munro, "Floating Bridge," Lorrie Moore, "How to Be a Writer"