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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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Course Restrictions

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