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2018-2019 College Catalog 
    
2018-2019 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LI 208 LIFE WRITING: READING AND WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY



The course will examine the art of ?composing a life? as practiced by memoirists, diarists, and autobiographers including Welty, Douglass, Nabokov, and Nin. The critical perspective gained through this study will be applied to the students? ownwriting on autobiographical themes; through these written assignments, students will explore the value of writing in making sense of one?s own experience. Lecture: 3 hours per week. 3 Credits