English 4011: Graduate Creative Writing:
Fiction—Fall 2009
Kafka’s Father &
Children
Course schedule
September
17—first class; in-class exercises (bring The 4 AM Breakthrough and Walser).
September
24—seriously browse through The 4 AM Breakthrough; Roxi and David
October
1—read Walser (“Kleist in Thun,” “The Job Application,” “Helbling’s Story,” and “The Walk”);
Danielle, Joanna, and Samuel
October
8—read Walser (“A Sort of Speech,”
“Essay on Freedom,” “The Honeymoon,” and
“Thoughts on Cézanne”); Roxi and David
October
15—read Kafka (from The Sons, “Letter to his Father”); Danielle and Joanna
October
22—read Kafka (from The Complete Stories, “The Judgment,” “A Country
Doctor,” and “The Hunter Gracchus”); Sam, Roxi,
and David
October
29—snow day
November
5— read Kafka (from The Complete Stories, “The Hunger Artist,” “Investigations
of a Dog,” “The Sudden Walk,” “First Sorrow,” and
“On Parables”) and Schulz (“August,”
“Tailors’ Dummies,” “Nimrod,” and “Mr.
Charles”); Danielle and Joanna
November
12—read Schulz (“The Street of the
Crocodiles,” “The Night of the Great Season,”
“Father’s Last Escape,” “The Republic of Dreams,”
and “Autumn”); Roxi,
David, and Sam
November
19—read Donald Barthelme, “Cortes and
Montezuma” and “City of Churches”
(scroll down past the Chinese translation of the story—honestly);
Danielle, Joanna, and Sam
Conferences
(my office, 487C):
Wed,
Nov 11
11:30 am, Joanna
3 pm, Roxi
Thurs,
Nov 12
11 am, Sam
Noon, Dave
Wed,
Nov 18
4:30 pm, Danielle