ENG 543 - Written War/Writing War

Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree, or English, or war and society major. Students will read literary texts to understand how war has been written by creative writers and/or by letter-writers during the conflict. Students will focus on issues of writing craft to examine the conventions of language, the narrative voice, the writing techniques, and the subject matter of selected literary-historical texts. Based on their reading, students will produce their own original creative writing (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, play), scholarly or critical essay, and/or digital media project. This course may focus on one war or one genre across wars or may work directly and exclusively with The Center for American War Letters. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits

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