All readings are in English translation. In this workshop, we will explore, through reading and through writing, the presentation of self in autobiography. A major focus will be on the interweaving of voice, structure, style, and content. As we read the work of ourselves and of others, we will be searching for strategies, devices, rhythms, patterns, and approaches that we might adapt in future writings. The reading list will consist of writings by twentieth-century women.
Admission is by permission of the instructor.
During the registration period, students should leave a sample of their writings at the English Department office, Wright 101. Heir to Waugh and Greene, both of whom supported and encouraged her work, Muriel Spark stands today in the front rank of contemporary writers, by anyone's standards a major novelist. This seminar will explore issues of gender, religion, and class in an effort to come to terms with the work of this contemporary woman to whom nothing seems impossible. A glimpse into the totality of nation-building from the female perspective. An inquiry into the possibilities for a feminist jurisprudence and an evaluation of critical theories of law and social reform.