Eng. 215: About the Course

Reading SF & Fantasy

Dr. Joseph J. Essid, Writing Center Director
Contacts: jessid@richmond.edu & (nights, weekends) joe.essid@gmail.com (until 8pm. Expect several-hour delay in response in e-mails) & my Personal Web page

Office Hours: Zoom only and click here .You may schedule an appointment (please e-mail me).

Where and When: Class will meet in Humanities 207 noon-1:15 T/Th

Writing Consultants: My Eng. 383 students + Cady Cummins (who took this class last year)

Theme: We'll read a variety of mostly recent SF & Fantasy, both short works and a few novels.

Class goals for Field of Study, Literature:

1. Practice the art of close reading & synthesis (comparing common ideas between multiple texts)
2. Explore how writers use metaphor and dialog to convey ideas to readers
3. Move student writers beyond mere summary to deeper analysis of texts
4. Practice the language of literary analysis in argument-based writing

Texts for Spring 2023: Click the title for the correct edition. Amazon and our Spider Shop should have them in. DO NOT order e-Books. You must have the paperback or hardack editions.

Hartwell, D., Ed. 21st Century Science Fiction: an Anthology
LeGuin, U. A Wizard of Earthsea
MacDonald, I. Luna: New Moon
Mandel, E. Station Eleven
Wilde, F. The Fire Opal Mechanism