ENGL 361 - Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

Upper Division

This course is a literary survey of contemporary nonfiction, including the personal essay and narrative nonfiction. Students investigate the relationship between art and culture, between the writer and their society. The course places special emphasis on formal analysis of themes and patterns in contemporary writing. Writers likely to be included are Jo Ann Beard, Joan Didion, Dave Eggers, Lucy Grealy, Pico Iyer, Mary Karr, Philip Lopate, Richard Rodriguez, Terry Tempest Williams, and Tobias Wolff, among others.

Course credits: 3