ENGL 195 SC - Fiction Workshop: Magic and Metaphor

In this fiction workshop, we’ll explore how short stories use figurative language to imbue both real and speculative worlds with a sense of magic. Throughout the course, we’ll focus on how metaphors come alive on the page – sometimes very literally, in works of magical realism and speculative fiction, and at other times through the ways that images and motifs shift our perceptions of the everyday. As we do so, students will apply what we study to their own writing – first through short exercises that ask them to try out a variety of figurative and speculative techniques, then in two short stories, which students will workshop with the class and revise.

Course Credit: 1.0

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