Course Details
Course offered Autumn 2019
HONORS 345 A: Accidental Poetics: Writing with chance in found situations (C)
HONORS 345 A: Accidental Poetics: Writing with chance in found situations (C)
SLN 16004 (View UW registration info »)
Dan Paz (Comparative History of Ideas)
Email: danpaz@uw.edu
Email: danpaz@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 23 students
Freshmen welcome!
Most writing classes and workshops emphasize deliberate strategies of composition. This class explores other methods, instead. What can accident, chance, arbitrary constraints, and stumbled-upon juxtapositions bring to your writing practice? We experiment with methods from Oulipo, Surrealism, Dada, ekphrastic poetry, game theory, science writing, and beyond.