59-1307 CRW:19th Century Russian Authors

Course requires that students research the reading and writing processes behind selected novels and short stories by Russian masterpiece authors and give their own oral and written responses as writers to the material they are reading. Research examines the personal and social contexts in which masterpeice works were written, as well as the ways in which writers read, respond to what they read, and incorporate their reading and responses to reading dynamically to their own fiction-writing process. Drawing upon authors’ journals, notebooks, and letters, as well as upon more authors and the ways in which students’ own responses may nourish and heighten the development of their fiction.

4 Credits