OWC 305 B — Novel III: Subtext, Theme, and Language
Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Julia Pierpont
Date(s): Sep 22—Dec 1
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
Class Meeting Time: 6:00—7:15 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class the week of November 23
Tuition: $1290
Refund Deadline: Sep 24
Unit(s): 2
Enrollment Limit: 15
Status: Open
Quarter: Fall
Day: Tuesdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 6:00—7:15 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 22—Dec 1
Unit(s): 2
Tuition: $1290
Refund Deadline: Sep 24
Instructor(s): Julia Pierpont
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
Enrollment Limit: 15
Recording Available: Yes
Status: Open
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.
JULIA PIERPONT
Author
Julia Pierpont is the author of the best-selling novel Among the Ten Thousand Things, which received the Prix Fitzgerald in France, as well as The Little Book of Feminist Saints. 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) Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place (ISBN 978-1681371474)