MCW 490-0
( Elective ) Special Topics in Creative Writing: War, Violence, Suffering
This course will address the ways in which war, violence and suffering are represented in writing and the ethical and aesthetical questions related to that. We will read Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry, Tim O'Brian's The Things They Carried, Primo Levi's Survival in Aushwitz, Edward P. Jones's The Known World, and others. Students should be aware that some the readings might be hard to stomach. The writing assignaments will include an analytical paper and an imitation narrative.
