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Spring 2025 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction (64619)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Description:
- Grief Memoirs and Humorous Reminiscence: Nonfiction is often at its most powerful when it acknowledges deep grief - or achieves deep humor. In this seminar, we'll read to see how memoirists handle both loss and levity. What patterns can we see in works that handle extremely sad material?
How do writers excavate humor from ostensibly unfunny situations? How can we hit these emotional registers in our own work? We will think about why and how writers articulate intense experiences - and will also endeavor to analyze jokes without destroying them. Texts may include work by Elizabeth Alexander, Shalom Auslander, Elif Batuman, Alison Bechdel, Sonali Deraniyagala, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison, Elizabeth McCracken, James Alan McPherson, Tig Notaro, Marjane Satrapi, David Sedaris, Gary Shteyngart, Sarah Vowell, and selected others. We will also read critical theory on humor writing, and watch some performance clips. This will be a combined seminar and writing workshop.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64619/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 October 2015
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