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3.00 Credits
We do weekly readings in poetry and poetics and consult the poets' voices in the Kerouac School audio archive. Our choice of source materials depends on our collective background, needs and inclinations. These materials inform our weekly writings. Is the poem given by the world, or is the world given by the poem Find out. Open to W&L students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity to engage with fiction, poetry and critical texts regarding exile and diaspora, with an emphasis on the mid-twentieth century to the present time. Thematic enquiries through reading and writing engage the relationship of characters and subjects to national and regional space, terrain and borderlands, as well as questions of displacement and belonging. Aesthetic enquiries on what happens to language and the intactness (or not) of form in literatures engage a continuum of voluntary and involuntary trajectories. Readings and research provide a political, historical and cultural context for literary work covered. As writers, students create work that engage and extend the themes and aesthetics of the reading assignments.
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3.00 Credits
Marking passage from childhood to adulthood provides great fodder for fiction. Often, the initiation involves a journey from home, a sexual awakening or very simply, a recognition that a larger world exists beyond that of the child's. Using childhood memory as a springboard for fiction, we write and explore coming of age stories, using as guides works by writers like Joyce, Morrison, Hurston and Kingston. Open to W&L students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
Experimental women writers question the role of gender in poetic practice, while challenging the idea of "feminine" forms and, in the words of Lyn Hejinian, "rejecting closure." This course examines women writers such as Rosemarie Waldrop and Hejinian, and how they investigate the margins of their condition while participating in the center of the poetic. We explore language and meaning; the nature of subjectivity, persona, and self; as well as the feminine, the body and community. All genders welcome.
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2.00 Credits
This professional training practicum instructs writing students in the skills necessary for conceiving, organizing and teaching writing workshops on two levels: public schools and colleges. The course covers the goals and methods of creating a syllabus and course description, recognition and evaluation of student writing abilities, and relating the writing workshop to existing curriculum. Techniques for working within school systems is stressed, along with how to stay happy and productive as a writer. Students design and submit two syllabi. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
Some trends in twentieth-century poetics reflected the crisis in subjectivity addressed contemporaneously in philosophy and the social sciences. If subjectivity consists only in its iterations, who or what is the poetic subject Is a new poetics a new politics This workshop aims to broaden our writerly and critical skills through discussions of our poems informed by readings in modern and contemporary poetry, poetics, literary theory and linguistics.
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3.00 Credits
Jack Kerouac coined the term "wild form" to refer to poems that emerge from spontaneous, unbridled states of mind. This course extends the implications by examining poetry's relationship to archaic or primitive thought, and to the self-regulating ecosystems of wild nature. We write poetry weekly, exploring perception, intuition, clear vocabulary, and forms free of pre-set assumptions. We examine ancient poetries as well as the vocabulary of modern poetics, in order to enrich each other's poem
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3.00 Credits
The class aims at developing our understanding of basic issues in contemporary literary theory. Readings are taken from continental philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, literary criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and gender and ethnic studies. The class is recommended for students who intend to take Feminist Theory in the spring semester. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
Eco means house: our larger house has come to be the whole global ecology, in detail. Students study and write poetry and prose, as well as unclassifiable experiments and collaborations that tend to direct attention to surroundings, especially "nature." Great range of authors, from Thoreau to Annie Dillard, Orpingalik the Inuit songster to Rachel Carson and Stephen Jay Gould, Mba Shole to Gary Snyder. We try to discover/invent new ways of representing nature's rich variety in language. Open to W&L and W&P students;others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to letterpress printing using the facilities in the Harry Smith Print Shop. Students are instructed in basic techniques as well as in the proper use of materials. Students also learn about basic design principles and the history and aesthetics of fine printing. Course requirements include working on a letterpress-printed project, weekly readings and some written assignments, and participation in group critiques and tasks. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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