In the third section of the course, we have read some stories that are footed in other genres a first-day walk-around at a job; a collection of instructions and advices; an amateur restaurant review; a poem about current events that mentions also a secondary genre, the ballad. We get stories that grow out of other stories. We also get stories that show us, within their limited boundaries, the conventions or expectations of a certain world or genre.
We read six stories by Orozco, Kincaid, Kirby, and Brooks.This paper gives you several routes for talking about them.
1. Stories grow out of, or crash into each other. What does it feel like when one story beats another storys shape? How does story A establish apparent dominance early, and how does story B break out of its crate, so to speak? What exists at the end defeat of A? A fragile peace between A and B? Return of A? Something else?
2. So these are stories told in a sort of alien or generic form (a review, a mothers morning thoughts). How are these forms or nonfictional genres appropriately or well suited for communicating the real themes the story comes up with? Or: how are they ideally suited to create a tension between an individual and the world?
3) Propose a new topic in an email addressed to me and Ill greenlight it within 24 hours.
