Literature
Stephanie Anderson is a writer
living in Boca Raton, Florida. Her
work has appeared or is
forthcoming in The Rumpus, Hotel
Amerika, The Pinch, Kudzu House
Quarterly, Grist Journal, The
Chronicle Review, Sweet and
others. Her debut nonfiction book, “One Size Fits
None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of
Regenerative Agriculture,” is forthcoming with
University of Nebraska Press in January 2019.
Stephanie holds an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from
Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where she
currently serves as Instructor of English teaching
creative writing, composition, literary interpretation,
professional writing and other writing and literature
courses. She has also taught workshops in poetry and
memoir at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FAU.
For more information on Stephanie, please visit www.stephanieandersonwriting.com.
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Great Short Stories
Interpretive Analysis and Shared Inquiry of Selections from The Great Books Foundation’s "Short Story Omnibus"
Study the variety and richness of the short story form by reading, analyzing and discussing some of the greatest stories of the last 150 years. This course will survey traditional short stories, sudden fiction (also known as flash fiction), novellas, graphic stories and more. Through shared inquiry and group discussion, students will gain deeper appreciation for and understanding of canonical short stories. Includes authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Cheever, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Lorrie Moore, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Melanie Rae Thon, Alison Bechdel and more.
This course has no prerequisites. The course text, "Short Story Omnibus" (The Great Books Foundation, ISBN 9781880323731), may be purchased at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Jupiter office. Some stories may also be available online or in other collections.
Enrollment for this class is limited to 25 students, so please enroll early.
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| Course # F8R5 — Full 8 Weeks
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| Place: | Room 158, Lifelong Learning Complex, Jupiter Campus |
| Dates: | Thursdays, October 18, 25; November 1, 8, 15, 29; December 6, 13 2018
(No Class On Thursday, November 22 2018 ) |
| Time: | 2:30 - 4 PM |
| Fee: | $120 / member; $140 / non-member |
| Class Closed |
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