IMF 52331 Nonfiction: Selected Essays L

Instructor

Lisa Haag

Class Type 

Literature

Course Description

This Prose Collection class will focus on essays contained in Best American Essays 2017. We will discuss and analyze each piece, and students will consider how their observations and insights can be applied to their own writing and a future collection. Robert Atwan, the series editor of Best American Essays described the collection this way: 成人视频湷扇耸悠禉The essay is political成人视频攁nd politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative成人视频攂ecause of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust成人视频攆aith and doubt成人视频攖hat structures its DNA,成人视频櫝扇耸悠禎 writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, from the beginning of the universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, the genetic makeup of the eclectic and electric selections in The Best American Essays 2017 成人视频榯hrill toward complexity.成人视频櫝扇耸悠禎

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