OWC 305 D — Novel III: Subtext, Theme, and Language
Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Antoine Wilson
Date(s): Sep 22—Dec 1
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
Class Meeting Time: 11:30 am—12:45 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class the week of November 23
Tuition: $1290
Refund Deadline: Sep 24
Unit(s): 2
Enrollment Limit: 15
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Fall
Day: Tuesdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 11:30 am—12:45 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 22—Dec 1
Unit(s): 2
Tuition: $1290
Refund Deadline: Sep 24
Instructor(s): Antoine Wilson
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.
ANTOINE WILSON
Author
Antoine Wilson is the award-winning author of the novels Mouth to Mouth, Panorama City, and The Interloper. He has taught fiction writing at the University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin, UC San Diego, UCLA Extension, and Otis College of Art and Design. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, and Best New American Voices, and he is a contributing editor at A Public Space. Textbooks for this course:
(Required) Jane Smiley, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel (ISBN 978-1400033188)
(Required) Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, Paperback (ISBN 978-0679731726)
(Required) Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, Paperback (ISBN 978-0679731726)