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3.00 Credits
We research hybridity to create both a vocabulary and an environment for our own projects and concerns. What is a hybrid form Answering this question depends upon research across and into other disciplines. To this end, the course includes reading works by writers who occupy or navigate or devour or think the space where one way of writing is becoming another, or joining with another, in diverse ways. In our own writing, we generate a template for, then build, a hybrid project. The method of instruction for this class combines short lectures with class discussion, workshops and in-class writing experiments.
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Haiku is a Pacific Rim poetry form. It originated in Japan and spread internationally, becoming Japan's best-known export. As a form of poetry it uses precise information about what we now term bioregions. It can be cool & glacially slow, or up close & passionate. This two-day workshop with field trips investigates specifics of our Southern Rocky Mountain bioregion for use in short-form verse. "In place of haiku" is how Lorine Niedecker put it. We'll try five-line versions, mesostics, lunes and collaborative linked-verse projects as well as considering poetry's links to other formal arts. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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1.00 Credits
Study and analysis of selected literary and compositional issues and elements with Naropa faculty and visiting faculty. Topics may cover a wide range of subject matter and methods in prose and vary from semester to semester. These may include, but are not limited to works of literature, forms of composition, literary history, writing practice (including prose, poetry and translation), literary criticism, as well as film and media studies.
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Study and analysis of selected literary and compositional issues and elements with Naropa faculty and visiting faculty. Topics may cover a wide range of subject matter and methods in writing and vary from semester to semester. These may include, but are not limited to, works of literature, forms of composition, literary history, writing practice (including prose, poetry and translation), literary criticism, as well as film and media studies.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the works of women writers who write what poet Lyn Hejinian calls "open texts," that is, prose, poetry, creative nonfiction and hybrid works that are open to the world and to the reader, invite participation, foreground process, resist reduction and examine authority. We look at these works in their own right as well as in relation to the literary movements of the time.
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Study and analysis of selected literary and compositional issues and elements with Naropa faculty and visiting faculty. Topics may cover a wide range of subject matter and methods in poetry and vary from semester to semester. These may include, but are not limited to works of literature, forms of composition, literary history, writing practice (including prose, poetry and translation), literary criticism, as well as film and media studies.
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3.00 Credits
In this class, we examine selected, primary texts of Kerouac's narrative canon (what he called the Vanity of Duluoz), as well as his first novel; plus primary critical and personal biographies and oral history. His letters and journals are also included. Through these varied filters we come to a better understanding of his compositional techniques, spiritual and emotional make-up, and ultimately Kerouac's place in the context of his time and in the gallery of American letters. We probe beyond the myth of the namesake of the Kerouac School, until he reveals himself through his multidimensional life and work.
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In this survey course, we read and discuss many of the great innovations in literary style and composition in prose and verse in the period between 1910 and 1930. Writers include Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Jean Toomer, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Langston Hughes and Marianne Moore. The final third of the term is spent on a close reading of Joyce's Ulysses. Accompanying the primary texts are essays by the above authors and others on specific features of modernist poetry and narrative. Requirements include response papers and a substantial final paper on some aspect(s) of Ulysses. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
Students study the history of the Beat Generation with special attention to the writings of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Joanne Kyger, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Dylan, Anne Waldman, Philip Whalen, Alan Watts, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder and others. The class thoroughly investigates the provocative essence and force of Beat literature. Students write their own visions in the multiple forms of these singular and enduring writers. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
The course covers modern literary works either groundbreaking themselves, or intensely reflective of their moment. We read an expansive selection of texts. The majority of class time is spent discussing the current text, and there are four critical papers covering race and gender, as well as social and cultural breakthroughs. In addition, there are video presentations of selected works. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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