John Fowles Literary Forum Core Course

The John Fowles Literary Forum Core Course is a unique course that coincides with the John Fowles Literary Forum.  Each spring the course will focus on the study of six contemporary writers and their work in conjunction with the lecture and reading series sponsored by the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing. Lectures and/or readings are conducted by novelists, poets, literary critics, screenwriters, creative non-fiction writers, lyricists, etc. The reading and analysis assignments are based on the visiting writers’ works. The course is devoted to studying their work on a number of critical levels including stylistics and poetics and we will approach any films based on their work in light of aesthetics and film adaptation. However the primary focus will be on the various novelists' responses to the challenges of narration and representation in a predominantly postmodern age. The course is offered every spring semester for graduate students only and can be repeated.