ENGL 2070 - Life-Writing

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2018

In this course students will read a range of life narratives in the context of theories of self-representation. The course will focus on variations in the genre of life-writing, and will include autobiography, biography, memoir, letters, diaries, journals (written and documentary), graphic and digital forms. The course will examine the evolution of autobiographical texts - and the changing significance attributed to the speaking "I". Set texts will include not only those conventionally understood as autobiography but also those which deliberately blur the line between biography and autobiography. The course will allow students the option of producing a piece of life-writing as part of their assessment. They will develop their skills in reading texts within the context of cultural and literary history and provide the opportunity to explore intersections between critical and creative writing in their own essays or creative writing projects.

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