INTRODUCTION TO NOVEL STUDIES

Course Description

This colloquium is an introduction to the novel genre from the perspective of readers, writers, scholars, and students. We will study many topics which constitute and define the genre. These include the categorization of novels, how novels get published, how novelists become successful, how to write novels, and much more. This colloquium blends each required area of study within the Writing and Literature degree: writing studies, literary studies, and creative writing (though it does not officially fulfill degree requirements). Ultimately, we will explore a thriving field of imagination, hope, ambition, and myth.

This is a student-led colloquium led by Ariana Duckett under the supervision of Ellen O’Connell Whittet