ENGL 381 - English Seminar

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2019/20a: Fanny Howe. “I traveled to the page where scripture meets fiction./The paper slept but the night in me woke up,” begins Fanny Howe’s poem, “A Hymn.” In this seminar we travel through the work of this American poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and activist, the author of more than 40 books of poetry and prose, doing so not only in hopes of waking the night in us, but also exploring what Howe calls “bewilderment as a way of entering the day as much as the work. Bewilderment as a poetics and an ethics.” Michael Joyce.

One 3-hour period.

Course Format: CLS