Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Autobiographical Writing
Term
2024A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML1235401
Course number integer
1235
Meeting times
MW 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Meeting location
VANP 625
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Liliane Weissberg
Description
How does one write about oneself? Who is the “author” writing? What does one write about? And is it fiction or truth?
Our course on autobiographical writing will pursue these questions, researching confessions, autobiographies, memoirs, and other forms of life-writing both in their historical development and theoretical articulations. Examples will include selections from St. Augustine’s confessiones, Rousseau’s Confessions, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, as well as many examples from contemporary English, German, French, and American literature.
Our course on autobiographical writing will pursue these questions, researching confessions, autobiographies, memoirs, and other forms of life-writing both in their historical development and theoretical articulations. Examples will include selections from St. Augustine’s confessiones, Rousseau’s Confessions, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, as well as many examples from contemporary English, German, French, and American literature.
Course number only
1235
Cross listings
GRMN1235401
Use local description
No