ENGL 273 - Art and Letters

1 unit(s)

We begin by reading letters shared between selected American writers throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in this intensive. What kinds of issues arise among writers as they attempt to connect with their peers to work through life and art? Additionally, students embark on correspondence-based relationships with other writers/artists/thinkers in order to test theories of connection, care, and creation that letter writing makes possible. Reading and writing in the epistolary form, then, we work through questions of audience, aesthetics, and archives throughout this semester-long intensive. Eve Dunbar.

Two hours every other week.

Not offered in 2021/22.

Course Format: INT