FRSEMR 37j - Memory and Memoir

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Harvard University

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Description:

This seminar explores memoirs that highlight memories and occasionally "forgettings." Our approach considers twentieth-century and contemporary memoirs at the intersection of literature and history, exploring everyday life and the relations between self, memory, story, and history. We also examine the fictive nature of memoirs, relations between senses and memories, and whether contemporary media are forms of memoirs. Authors include Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Oliver Sacks, M.F.K. Fisher, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Marjane Satrapi.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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