CRWR 17001 Fundamentals in Creative Writing: Testimony
To give testimony is to bear witness and to provide evidence. To give testimony is also to draw the reader or listener into an individual point of view. In this course, we will study the first-person voice in various forms of personal testimony. Drawing from a mix of memoirs, personal essays, letters, fiction, and other first-person narratives, we will analyze the techniques and rhetorical devices used by writers, standup comedians, memoirists in transporting the listener or reader into unknowable, unfamiliar experiences. Expect to engage with texts by authors such as Franz Kafka, Patricia Lockwood, and William Maxwell. We will compose our own personal writings through creative exercises. Come prepared to engage in creative writing exercises.
Register via myuchicago.edu. Creative Writing Majors and Minors will be given highest priority during pre-registration. If you wish to add this course during add/drop please email the instructor to be added to the waitlist.