대학원 수업에서 미니멀리즘 글쓰기 교육

Abstract

This thesis elaborates the whole procedure of teaching creative minimalism writing at a graduate course of Contemporary British/American Novel. The class starts with Cynthia Whitney Hallett’s Minimalism and the Short Story in order to familiarize basic conceptions of minimalism. The students learn various disciplines of minimalism and how it has been dominant in contemporary American culture. Then the class shifts into reading minimalism works by major writers like Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, and Mary Robison. After reading each novelist, the students try to imitate his/her minimalism writing styles on their own ways. For example, they get all minimalism strategies in Raymond Carver’s Where I’m Calling From, and create their own stories as if they are students of Carver school. All students participate in analyzing their own creative works in the class, exchanging critical comments, useful expressions, any alternative ways to make better, etc. Once one set of class, that is, reading original minimalist’s works, the students’ writing their own way of minimalism, and open feedbacks in the class, is finished, the class moves into Amy Hempel, and next to Mary Robison. One of the goals of this course is to provide the students with opportunities to create their own literary works of minimalism so that some of them might make creative writers of themselves within near future.