WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: FICTION

I use power point presentations for teaching. I also use Blackboard to set up interactive exercises in a virtual environment and to communicate with students.

Assessment methods: depending on the instructor a) Two in-class essays (20% +20%) and a final examination (60%) OR b) Two essays, one written as a mid-term test in class (20%) and the other written at home (with frequent consultation with the instructor, 20%), class participation and class tasks (10%), plus a final examination (50%).

Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” Extract from Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Extract from Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill” Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover” Ernest Hemingway, “Hills like Elephants” Extract from Henry Fielding, Tom Jones Extract from Andrea Levy, The Long Song Charlie Fish, “Death by Scrabble” Dorothy Richardson, “Death” Extract from Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Guy de Maupassant, “Moonlight” Extract from Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Ernest Hemingway, “Cat in the Rain” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” Angela Carter, “The Company of Wolves” Extract from James Joyce, “The Dead” Εxtract from Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Extract from Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Robert Coover, “The Babysitter” Extract from Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia Jorge Luis Borges, “Borges and I” Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” Kamila Shamsie, “Our Dead, Your Dead” John Updike, “A & P”