ENGH 619: Special Topics in Writing

ENGH 619-001: Writing After Reading:In Trans
(Spring 2017)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W

David J. King Hall 2054

Section Information for Spring 2017

This 619: Writing After Reading in Translation will ask you to read a wide variety of poetries in translation. We will begin an introduction to the art of translation, then turn to an anthology of twentieth-century European and South American writers, and finally slow down to look more closely at the Polish poet Anna Swir and the Cuban poet Dulce Maria Loynaz. Each week we will respond to the reading with our own poems. Maybe we’ll even be able to think again and freshly about what poems can do and how and why they bother to do so. Students will take turns writing prompts and presenting poems for critique, and everyone will write a poem every week. This course is meant to expose you to poets you might not have read before and to be generative of lots of new drafts.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Workshop course. Intensive practice in creative writing and study of creative process. Concentrates on specialized literary type other than short story, such as essay, playwriting, film writing, children's literature, travel literature, autobiography, gothic novel, and translation. Notes: Intended for students already writing original creative work. Other interested graduate students should contact the English department at (703) 993-1180. May be repeated for credit with permission of department. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 30 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: Intended for students already writing original creative work.
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Creative Writing.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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