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==Course Description==
 
==Course Description==
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20060910023310/http://www.jhu.edu/gifted/summer/employment/writing.html#mfan From the CTY Course History] (2006):
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This course transports readers to magical worlds where animals speak, toys come to life, and eccentric characters perform seemingly impossible feats. Worlds turn upside down, and the familiar becomes the unknown. Explore classic and contemporary texts to learn the traits that characterize modern fantasy. Venture into extraordinary places like Narnia in C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and witness battles between good and evil, like those in Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone. In this workshop-style course, read, discuss, and reflect upon what these whimsical worlds tell us about our own. Respond to modern fantasy texts in a variety of written assignments, including literary analysis and reflective writing. Armed with your newly developed understanding of the genre and an appreciation of its nuances, you will then craft your own works of fantasy.
  
Novelist Caroline Gordon once said, "A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way." As readers of modern fantasy, we are transported into magical worlds where people, places, and things are often not what they appear to be, nor what we expect them to be. Animals speak, toys come to life, and eccentric characters perform seemingly impossible deeds. Worlds are turned upside down, and the familiar becomes the unknown.
 
 
In this course, students learn to identify the traits that characterize modern fantasy. They venture into extraordinary places such as Narnia in C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and witness battles between good and evil like those that take place in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Students may read Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and experience what might take place if characters could come alive from the pages of a book.
 
 
The course's workshop approach affords many opportunities to engage in close reading, participate in informed discussion, and reflect upon what these fantastic worlds tell us about our own world. In addition, students respond to modern fantasy texts in a variety of written assignments, including literary analysis and reflective writing. Armed with their newly developed understanding of the genre and an appreciation for its nuances, students then craft their own original pieces of fantasy.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 13:17, 22 March 2023

Writing Workshop: Modern Fantasy
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Course CodeMFAN
Year Opened2006
Sites OfferedGIL, NYC
Previously OfferedALE, LAJ, MSA, NRS, NUE, OMS, SAN, STP, WDS, WIN, WLA
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Course Description

From the CTY Course:

This course transports readers to magical worlds where animals speak, toys come to life, and eccentric characters perform seemingly impossible feats. Worlds turn upside down, and the familiar becomes the unknown. Explore classic and contemporary texts to learn the traits that characterize modern fantasy. Venture into extraordinary places like Narnia in C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and witness battles between good and evil, like those in Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone. In this workshop-style course, read, discuss, and reflect upon what these whimsical worlds tell us about our own. Respond to modern fantasy texts in a variety of written assignments, including literary analysis and reflective writing. Armed with your newly developed understanding of the genre and an appreciation of its nuances, you will then craft your own works of fantasy.