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Advanced Seminar
SoSe 19: Life Writing: Exploring the Self
Thomas Dikant
Comments
What are the shapes of our lives, and what does it mean to be a person? Life-writing, a term used to describe a wide variety of literary texts including autobiographies and biographies, memoirs, and autofictional experiments raises these and similar questions. In this seminar, we will start by looking at the genre of the autobiography, and study how the exploration and mediation of a self in writing becomes transformed over the 19th and 20th century, ending with recent experimental texts that probe the boundaries between non-fiction and fiction. Readings will include life-writings by Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Jacobs, Henry Adams, H. D., Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, Maggie Nelson, and Ben Lerner. close
13 Class schedule
Additional appointments
Tue, 2019-06-25 16:00 - 18:00Regular appointments
Tue, 2019-04-09 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-04-16 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-04-23 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-04-30 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-05-07 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-05-14 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-05-21 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-05-28 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-06-04 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-06-11 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-06-18 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-07-02 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2019-07-09 16:00 - 18:00