ENGL 4665-001: Studies in American Literature after 1900, Personal Writing in Modern America (Fall 2019)

Instructor: Prof. Ed Rivers This course studies modern American writers writing about their own lives, and students will have a chance to do their own personal writing. Texts will include not only autobiography and memoir but also fiction based on the writer’s own life. We will study essays and stories...

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ENGL 4665-001: Studies in American Literature After 1900, Personal Writing in Modern America

This course studies modern American writers writing about their own lives. In addition, students will have a chance to do their own personal writing. We will consider not only writing that presents itself as autobiography or memoir but also fiction based on the writer’s own life. The texts will include...