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WRITING (L13)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2017
L13 Writing 531Craft of Fiction: Unoriginal Genius3.0 Units
Description:Unoriginal Genius, which borrows its title from the Marjorie Perloff book, will be a craft course devoted to reading and writing various forms of intertextual fiction involving appropriation. We'll consider a wide variety of contemporary fiction (as well as some poems and a couple of plays) which can be roughly divided into four groups, two of which primarily appropriate story elements, as well as style and voice--adaptations and inhabitations (if an adaptation lives within and transforms the house of a prior text, an inhabitation perhaps builds or discovers new rooms)--and two of which primarily appropriate actual text and language--condensations (new fictions constructed as radically abridged versions of prior texts) and assemblages. We'll also consider "uncreative writing," in Kenneth Goldsmith's term; we'll draw connections to appropriation theory and practice in the visual arts; and we'll discuss evolving notions of authorship and personal expression in a contemporary, digital landscape. Authors will likely include Caroline Bergvall, Kate Bernheimer, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter, Aimé Césaire, Lydia Davis, Kate Durbin, Danielle Dutton, Goldsmith, Shelley Jackson, Jonathan Lethem, Jean Rhys, and Tom Stoppard. But this will be a writing course, first and foremost, with workshops throughout the semester. Preference is given to graduate students in the MFA program.
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