Meanwhile, advanced explication and composition exercises work on perfecting the students' control over the design and style of the articles they write. Designed to cover subject matter not offered in other courses. May be repeated. Critical theory and practice from 1900 to the present. Such aspects of the genre as scene, transition, character, and conflict.
Discussion is limited to the novel.
An examination of perception, diction, form, irony, resolution, and the critical theories of the major writers on poetry, such as Dryden, Coleridge, and Arnold. Second part of the study of the techniques of fiction. Discussion is limited to the short story. Intensive study of two or more major poets. May be repeated.