COLT 1420D - Autobiography: From Saint Augustine to Our Time

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Brown University

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This senior seminar will explore the different ways in which writers have filtered and shaped their personal experience into an autobiographical mode. Readings will include works of St. Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Mary McCarthy, and Maya Angelou. There will be short writing assignments which will focus on the texture of prose, and on the sensory precision essential to any effective rendering of memory.

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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