Drafting the Novel: A Century of Enormous Change
Michael Pritchett, MFA, associate professor
Department of English
Tuesdays, 1-2:30 p.m.
Oct. 14, 21 and 28
UMKC Administrative Center, Plaza Room
$40 ($55 with parking permit)
The making of a novel requires expertise with the structure of the form and an understanding of relationships between form and content. We will examine the form from a historical perspective as it has been handed down and discuss which parts of the tradition seem most useful to novelists today. Different types of novels to be discussed will include the drama of consciousness; the drama of events; the utopian, dystopian and apocalyptic; the war novel; the gothic; the 1850s; the 1930s; the beat novel; the socialist narrative; the episodic and epistolary narrative; the New York story; the L.A. story; the Western; the Midwestern; the Harlem Renaissance; the “road” novel; the Mexico novel, and others.
