OWC 305 B — Novel III: Subtext, Theme, and Language
Quarter: Fall
Course Format: Flex Online (About Formats)
Duration: 10 weeks
Date(s): Sep 26—Dec 8
Refund Deadline: Sep 29
Units: 3
Tuition: $1240
Instructor(s): Julia Pierpont
Limit: 13
Class Recording Available: Yes
Status: Closed
Fall
Flex Online(About Formats)
Date(s)
Sep 26—Dec 8
10 weeks
Refund Date
Sep 29
3 Units
Fees
$1240
Instructor(s):
Julia Pierpont
Limit
13
Recording
Yes
Closed
This course is not open to the public, but rather by admission only. For more information on the Online Writing Certificate Program and its application process, please click here.
In this course, we will continue to build on the foundational elements of storytelling that have been laid down in the previous courses. We will home in on the relationships among present action, backstory, and subtext. We will ponder the crucial collision point between plot and characterization. Your novel's subconscious concerns will slowly rise to the surface as we delve deeper and try to uncover your theme. This course will have an extensive workshop component, so the focus will stay on the students’ novels. The goal will be for each student to complete a draft—however rough it may be—of their novel before thesis instruction.
In this course, we will continue to build on the foundational elements of storytelling that have been laid down in the previous courses. We will home in on the relationships among present action, backstory, and subtext. We will ponder the crucial collision point between plot and characterization. Your novel's subconscious concerns will slowly rise to the surface as we delve deeper and try to uncover your theme. This course will have an extensive workshop component, so the focus will stay on the students’ novels. The goal will be for each student to complete a draft—however rough it may be—of their novel before thesis instruction.
JULIA PIERPONT
Author
Julia Pierpont is the author of the bestselling novel Among the Ten Thousand Things, which received the Prix Fitzgerald in France. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and Guernica. She received an MFA from NYU. Textbooks for this course:
(Required) Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban (ISBN 978-0811226691)
(Required) David Lodge, The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts (ISBN 978-0140174922)
(Required) David Lodge, The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts (ISBN 978-0140174922)