English 172
Literature and Psychology: Literatures of the Self
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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| 1 | Fall 2018 | Zeavin, Hannah
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TTh 11-12:30 | 300 Wheeler |
Book List
Bechdel, Alison: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy; Hejinian, Lyn: My Life
Other Readings and Media
All other readings will be in a course reader.
Description
In this course, we will survey literatures of the self and their history from antiquity to the present. We will attend to the writing of the self in its many genres and forms: the diary, the autobiography, the poem, the novel, the memoir, the case study, the graphic novel, and digital self-presentation. Auto-writings negotiate a paradox: a subjective engagement with subjective fact that often aspires to a nearly scientific objectivity; sometimes they task themselves with the opposite: undoing or revising a scientific or political consensus. We will think about these literatures as means of self-preservation, self-knowing, self-tracking, diagnosis, an accounting for a self, as a site of counter-history, and as a tool for (re)enfranchisement. Authors include Augustine, Kempe, Pepys, Rousseau, Whitman, Douglass, Freud, Stein, Woolf, Hejinian, Anzaldúa, Bechdel, and Nelson.
Other Recent Sections of This Course
spring, 2022 |
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172/1 |
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summer, 2022 |
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172/1 |
Literature and Psychology: Dreaming on Paper: Exceptional Mental States and the Written Word |
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summer, 2021 |
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172/1 |
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