OWC 305 A — Novel III: Subtext, Theme, and Language
Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Angela Pneuman
Date(s): Sep 25—Dec 4
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Fridays
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
Class Meeting Time: 12:00—1:15 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class the week of November 23
Tuition: $1290
Refund Deadline: Sep 27
Unit(s): 2
Enrollment Limit: 15
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Fall
Day: Fridays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 12:00—1:15 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 25—Dec 4
Unit(s): 2
Tuition: $1290
Refund Deadline: Sep 27
Instructor(s): Angela Pneuman
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
Enrollment Limit: 15
Recording Available: Yes
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
Please Note: No class the week of November 23
This course is not open to the public, but rather by admission only. For more information on the 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.
ANGELA PNEUMAN
Author
Angela Pneuman has taught at Stanford and in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of Lay It on My Heart and Home Remedies, and her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Glimmer Train, The Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares. She contributes to Salon and The Rumpus. Pneuman directs the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and received a PhD in English from SUNY Albany. Textbooks for this course:
(Optional) Tobias Wolff, Old School (ISBN 978-0375701498)
(Optional) Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half (ISBN 978-0525536963)
(Optional) Julia Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (ISBN 978-0307744425)
(Optional) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (ISBN 978-0358062684)
(Optional) Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half (ISBN 978-0525536963)
(Optional) Julia Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (ISBN 978-0307744425)
(Optional) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (ISBN 978-0358062684)