ENGH307
Essays, Letters, Memoirs, and Meditations: Reading Nonfiction Prose
English
College of Liberal Arts
Course Subject Code
ENGH
Course Number
307
Status
Active
Course Attributes
CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, ENCW: Major-Engl:CreativeWr Elective, MECW: Major-English:CreativeWriting, MENL: Major-English:Literature, MEWC: Major-English:Writing/Comms, NECW: Minor-English:CreativeWriting, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, ENEW: Minor-Engl:Writ/Comms Elective, NENL: Minor-English:Literature, NEWC: Minor-English:Writing/Comms
Course Short Title
Reading Nonfiction Prose
Course Long Title
Essays, Letters, Memoirs, and Meditations: Reading Nonfiction Prose
Course Description
Explores various forms of the genre of nonfiction prose from letter to essay, travel writing to confessional, and memoir to meditation. Provides an historical overview of the various forms and their emergence as an area of scholarly interest, and explores the ways nonfiction writers create narrative personae, subtly persuading readers to their perspective, and helping to compose the identities of the peoples and cultures about whom they write. Authors may include Montaigne, Addison, Hazlitt, Butler, Steel, Johnson, Lamb, Emerson, Thoreau, Orwell, Mary Kingsley, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Adrienne Rich, Joan Didion, Richard Rodriguez, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Bill Bryson.
Min
4
Repeatable
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Equivalent Course(s)
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