This is a workshop in nonfiction for people who have some confidence in their prose and are looking for a chance to try their wings as writers. Much time in and out of class will be spent reading and responding to each other s work. Good writers of all sorts are welcome, including non-majors. Permission of the instructor required. Every semester Seminars, to which students are only admitted by permission of the instructor, are limited to enrollments of no more than fifteen students.
Seminars examine various topics, issues, and authors.
This seminar will explore Jane Austen's major novels, selected juvenillia, and collected letters. The critical emphasis will be on the world of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England. We will consider the way that analysis of historical context informs the reading of the works, as well as the way that the works inform our inderstanding of the soical conditions of the time. Ms. Drum William Blake. Thus the seminar will examine both Blake's visual art and his poetry, though with emphasis on the latter.