Title
ENG1980-01.Topics: Sci Fiction & Metaphor.J15.Hueller,Patrick
Document Type
Syllabi
School
CLA
Department
ENG
Course Subject
ENG
Course Number
1980
Course Section
01
Course Title
Topics: Sci Fiction & Metaphor
Academic Term and Year
Winter 2015
Credits
4.00
Hamline Plan Letter
W
Course Description
A children's playroom patrolled by vultures and lions. A boy who causes it to thunder just by running down the street. A planet that never stops raining. How did Ray Bradbury come up with these and many other story ideas? What do the stories themselves tell us about . . . us? What are the metaphors at work in his fiction? The first half of this class will be all Bradbury, all the time. We'll read some of his stories and essays; we'll think critically about the thematic issues central to his work; and we'll follow his advice to writers. Then, in the second half, we'll create stories and essays of our own. This class offers students the chance to hone their critical reading skills and develop their own writing processes.
Recommended Citation
Hueller, Patrick, "ENG1980-01.Topics: Sci Fiction & Metaphor.J15.Hueller,Patrick" (2015). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 4402.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/4402