• STUDENT ACCOUNTS
  • STUDENT ACCESS
  • FACULTY ACCESS
  • 0Shopping Cart
MFA Program for Writers | Warren Wilson
  • OUR PROGRAM
    • Program Overview
    • Residency
    • Tuition and Fees
    • FAQs
  • FACULTY
    • Current Faculty
    • Active Faculty
    • Past Faculty
  • ALUMNI
    • Alumni Information & Bibliography
    • Post-Graduate Semester
    • Fellowships and Stipends
    • Request a Transcript
  • NEWS
  • APPLY
  • CONTACT
  • SHOP THE MFA STORE
    • Audio recordings: Residency lectures
    • Books: Faculty anthologies
    • Videos: Craft and the Writing Life series
    • Collections
  • Search
  • Menu Menu

Robert Boswell: Writing the Political Novel: The Responsibilities of the Writer in an Inconvenient Time (January 1996)

$5.00

What makes a good political novel? Is it possible for a work of fiction to make a difference in the complex contemporary world? Noting that many writers resist overtly political writing, Robert Boswell examines and opposes that resistance, believing that writers keep the possibility of change alive when they engage with the political. Drawing on work by Melville, Roth, Wolfe, Updike, Styron, Kingsolver, and others, Boswell offers strategies for writing political novels that retain their integrity as literary fiction.

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Fiction
  • Additional information

Additional information

Faculty Member

Boswell, Robert

Residency

1996 – January

Related products

  • Kevin McIlvoy: The Editor Comes Clean At Last, Part II (July 1998)

    $5.00
  • Charles Baxter: Mistakes (January 1994)

    $5.00
  • Joan Aleshire: Rilke’s Duino Elegies (July 1996)

    $5.00
  • Pablo Medina: Literature and Democracy (July 1996)

    $5.00

The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College

701 Warren Wilson Rd. Swannanoa, NC 28778
[email protected]     (828) 771-3715

STUDENT ACCOUNTS      STUDENT ACCESS      FACULTY ACCESS

© 2023 MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson :: Website by Integritive Web Design :: Asheville, NC
Debra Allbery: “My” Emily Dickinson (January 1996)Renate Wood: The “Embodiment of the Speaker” (January 1996)
Scroll to top