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Open Creative Nonfiction
Course Material
- Syllabus for Open Creative Nonfiction
- Week 1: Thursday, September 16th (synchronous meeting)
- Week 6+: October 26th (synchronous meeting)
- Week 6: October 19th and 21st (revised)
- Week 5: October 12th and 14th (revised)
- Week 4: October 5 and October 7th (revised)
- Week 3: September 28th and September 30th (revised)
- Week 2: September 21st and September 23rd (revised)
- Theme, Terms and Class Structure
Week 5: October 12th and 14th (revised)
For Tuesday, October 12th, please post the following exercise to the shared googledoc:
EXERCISE:
Change the point-of-view of your piece by describing the place and your relationship to it from second or third person point of view. Or take the distance further—how would a stranger see this place? Notice how your relationship to the events change.
For Thursday, October 14th, please prepare to lead discussion on one piece (tbd) and familiarize yourself with the following article.
READING:
Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple.”
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
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To what extent does Mairs treat her body and her self as different subjects?
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Contrast Mairs’ sense of authority with Karr, who has corralled the chaotic events of her life into calm. How does Mairs write herself into being?
