ENGLISH  311:
     READING  AND  WRITING  

        THE  SHORT  STORY

                                                      Summer 2006
                                                      Online blended with meetings on select days (see calendar)
                                                      Bill Stobb, Instructor
 


"Good fiction sets off a vivid and continuous dream in the reader's mind.... It does not play pointlessly subtle games in which storytelling is confused with puzzle-making.  It does not 'test' the reader by demanding that he bring with him some special knowledge....  In short, it seeks, without pandering, to satisfy and please.  It is intellectually and emotionally significant....  If a young writer fully appreciates all these qualities of successful fiction and regularly pursues them in his own work, one does not need to make guesses about his potential: he's already there."

     John Gardner,
     On Becoming a Novelist
 

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