Intended for writers who are looking for ways to improve their output. This guide focuses on: fiction writing and the world of genre fiction; ways of drawing on personal experience in order to write non-fiction articles on a variety of topics in a number of different styles; and, writing for children.
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Noted critics and authors write on various aspects of science fiction
as a genre. Kingslay Amis identifies the roots of modern sci-fi in
Shakespeare; Stanislaw Lem discusses some of the logical implications
of time travel stories as employed by Bradbury, Heinlein, Frederic
Brown and others; while CS Lewis considers the various categories of
science fiction & Darko Suvin presents a comprehensive discussion
of how sci-fi works.
A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction, relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity and covers different forms of fiction.
For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history of science fiction film also serves as a cultural history of America over the past half century.
Taught by Michael Krasny
San Francisco State University
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Imagine that, in one sitting, you could enter a world of imagination and witness the triumphs, tragedies, errors, and epiphanies that arise in the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. Imagine that, in the time it takes to run an errand, you could gain remarkable insights about the true nature of humanity—its dark secrets and its saving graces. Imagine that, in the space of an hour, you could do this instead:
Visit a Harlem jazz club and hear the inspired improvisations of gifted bluesmen
Attend a glittering Parisian ball bedecked in borrowed jewels
Confront a dangerous criminal on a lonely backwoods road
Journey back to colonial America and encounter a coven of witches
This enlightening experience awaits you in Masterpieces of Short Fiction, a 24-lecture course that samples two centuries' worth of great short stories written by some of the acknowledged masters of the genre, including Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, and Ernest Hemingway.
24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
