Reading and Writing: Hybrid-Genre Works
LIT4140.01
Course Description
Summary
We will read and discuss an array of hybrid-genre works or writing that combines and coalesces two or more genres: poetry, fiction, criticism, and/or memoir. Some books will also cross media incorporating painting, photography, and film. Reading works by Rosa Alcalá, Dao Strom, Douglas Kearney, Mary-Kim Arnold, Evie Shockley, Elizabeth Powell, Tan Lin, Bhanu Kapil, and others, we will consider how drawing upon different prose, verse, and multi-media modes can complement and augment the way we shape our personal and political stories. Students will complete writing assignments each week designed to build toward a hybrid-genre work. Students will give and receive critique in a workshop environment, expand approaches to drafting, and revise your writing for the final assignment. Co-requisite: Students are required to attend the Literature Evenings and Poetry at Bennington readings, typically held on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.Prerequisites
Interested students should submit a writing sample of up to three pages of creative writing in any genre to annamariahong@bennington.edu by Thursday, November 14. Class lists will be posted outside Barn 247 on Tuesday, November 19. Students may apply to multiple 4000-level Reading and Writing courses in the same term, but, once accepted, may enroll in only one 4000-level Reading and Writing course per term.
Please contact the faculty member :
Corequisites
Students are required to attend the Literature Evenings and Poetry at Bennington readings, typically held on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.