PJ Seminar: A Master Class on Style, Intimacy, and Setting with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

What exactly do writers mean when they speak about style? How do writers achieve style? How do style and the intimacy between characters operate synergistically in a good story or a novel? And how can setting help to consolidate style and intimacy?

In order to arrive at a clear understanding of style (the particular tone and tenor of a piece of writing), intimacy (the dynamic between characters), and setting (the atmosphere, mood and backdrop of a scene), we will be examining work by renown stylists such as Kevin Barry, Sally Rooney, Virginia Woolf, Roberto Bolaño, and James Baldwin. Students will walk away with a greater understanding of what makes characters lift off the page and how setting can be used to animate the reader’s imagination.

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