ENG 610 The Novel: Reading & Writing
This course is not only for students who love to read a good novel, but also for students who feel compelled to write that "one" novel inside them. The course offers directed study of novel writing: novel prompts help students write their stories, which should lead to novels. Students read and study novels and analyze typical themes in novels, such as crime and passion, love and hate, and life and death. By reading novels, students form both an appreciation for and the skills required to write a novel. Students read the novels of writers such as Faulkner, Morrison, Behn, Achebe, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Marquez, Naslund, Kundera, Danticat, and Saikaku. Writing in this course may lead to the Master’s Thesis.