{"id":24,"date":"2005-09-11T20:51:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T00:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/11\/exploratory-writing-on-calvino\/"},"modified":"2005-09-11T20:55:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T00:55:48","slug":"exploratory-writing-on-calvino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/11\/exploratory-writing-on-calvino\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploratory Writing on Calvino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this exploratory assignment, write your own 2-page beginning of a &#8220;novel&#8221; which might appear in <em>If on a Winter&#8217;s Night a Traveler<\/em>. Try to model the form and style of Calvino&#8217;s truncated &#8220;novels.&#8221; Remember some of the common elements of all of the novels:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Long, ambiguous titles<\/li>\n<li>Directly addressing the reader or referring to the act of reading<\/li>\n<li>\nDescriptions of what the novel is saying instead of the actual text of the novel<\/li>\n<li>Full of intrigue, including breaking off at a very suspenseful moment<\/li>\n<li>Tension between male and female characters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The assignment is due on Tuesday, September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this exploratory assignment, write your own 2-page beginning of a &#8220;novel&#8221; which might appear in If on a Winter&#8217;s Night a Traveler. Try to model the form and style of Calvino&#8217;s truncated &#8220;novels.&#8221; Remember some of the common elements of all of the novels: Long, ambiguous titles Directly addressing the reader or referring to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/11\/exploratory-writing-on-calvino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploratory Writing on Calvino<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}