59-1308 Critical Reading & Writing: Contemporary European Masterpiece Authors

This course researches the writing processes of contemporary European writers, including the ways in which their reading and responses to reading play influential roles in the overall fiction-writing process. Journals and other writings by contemporary European authors will be used as examples of how writers develop dimensions of their own fiction and see their work in relation to other writers. Course involves study of the development of diverse techniques and voices of some of the most prominent contemporary European authors, the so-called post-war generation, in such countries as France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Russia, and others.

4 Credits
COREQUISITES: 59-1201 Fiction Writing I