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LITPA-2000-12: L: The First Person

Fall 2019

Subject: Literary and Performing Arts Studies
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: September 03, 2019 — December 13, 2019
Meetings: Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2
Instructor: Tom Barbash

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 0/13

Description:

A writer friend says of the first person narrator in fiction that he "descends from the ancient storyteller unspooling his tale around the fire for the delight and edification of his people." The questions readers need to form are "Who is this speaker?" and then "Why is she telling us this story, and what isn't she telling us?" We will read novels and short stories with beguiling and powerful, funny and deceptive, seductive and abrasive voices, and we will talk about what draws us in to a work of fiction and how a convincing consciousness comes across on the page. There will be both analytical and creative assignments and papers, and we'll discover what voice is, and why it's such an essential part of so many books we love.

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