Course details

Name: ENWR - 250

Title: SPECIAL TOPIC IN CREATIVE WRITING - FOOD WRITING

Section: 05

Semester: Fall - 2024

Credits: 3

Description:
“The Proust madeleine phenomenon is now as firmly established in folklore as Newton’s apple,” wrote New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling in 1962. “The man ate a tea biscuit, the taste evoked memories, he wrote a book.” In this seminar we will look at writers who have elevated the discourse on food. We encounter food in our everyday lives, and it is often by chance that a specific taste coincides with an experience that will resonate with us for years to come. We will discuss how these authors used a meal, or single ingredient, to create a transportive literary narrative.

Liebling further conjectured about Proust: “On a dozen Gardiners Island oysters, some bay scallops, three sautéed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh-picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island duck, he might have written a masterpiece.”

This is a writing-intensive class, and you will be assigned four essays of 750 words each, which we will read aloud and discuss in class. The final project for this class will be a portfolio containing the following: a rewrite of three essays; a 250-word essay introducing your portfolio; a 250-word essay on any one of the articles read in class.

Last updated on 2024-04-11 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Wednesday From 10:45 am To 1:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Creative Writing (CW)

Teaching Faculty: Rotella Mark (rotellam)

Is course canceled: No