Applications Now Available for ENVS 80: Writing Our Way Home! Terry Tempest Williams Spring 2014 ENVS 80: WRITING OUR WAY HOME Period: 3A How do we translate the great ecological themes of our time into meaningful stories? This will be an intensive writing seminar and workshop in creative nonfiction, focusing on memory as source and landscape as setting. Students will explore the notion of place, not only as a physical construct but as an idea through literature, photography, and film. The work of Helene Cixous, John D’gata, George Orwell, Zadie Smith, and Dave Eggers will serve as texts. The form of the essay will be discussed through the writings of Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace, Anne Carson, Sherman Alexie, and others. Throughout the quarter, students will immerse themselves in both the art of storytelling and the practice of writing. The culminating assignment will be “a natural autobiography,” an extended essay that illuminates the student’s own sense of place. Dist: LIT nrollment is limited; students interested in the course must apply. Please email [email protected] for an application. Due date: March 1, 2014.
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