Life Writing Seminar |
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Professor:
Dorothy Albertini |
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Course Number: BAC 120 |
CRN Number: 10361 |
Class
cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 12:30 PM - 2:50
PM Olin Language Center 118 |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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“...The call of the writer is the same as the call of the
reader. / Take me to other planes of myself. Agnes Martin said her
paintings were for / people to look at before daily care strikes. Suppose reading
and writing do their best / work after daily care has struck (and struck
hard).” C.D. Wright. We will gather to do our best work with and for
reading and writing. Life Writing has many forms; usually it is a kind
of personal narrative. For our purposes, let’s think of Life Writing as
practice in attending to life (including memory--yours, others’), using the
lens of writing. Our methods will include observation, listening,
reflection, recursion, close reading, and writing practice. In class, we’ll
read and we’ll write; during the week outside of class, you’ll continue to
hold space to be a writer, flexing your muscles of observation and attending
to what’s there. The goal is to create more fluidity for you between your
mind and the page. There will be regular short assignments (usually one
page or less), and you'll have the opportunity to revise and grow the texts
you create over the course of the semester, with the support of in-class
revision workshops. Think of this class as a container you will fill, with
many hands ready to help steady the weight |
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