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Skip to contentDepartment of EnglishMenu Close Search Undergraduate ProgramMFA in Creative WritingPhD in English & American LiteratureResearchStudent ResourcesOur PeopleLet your curiosity lead the way:Apply TodayHomeCoursesUpcoming EventsRecent NewsThe SpectacleContact Us Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&S Memory and Narrative: The Literature of Memory ENGLISH LITERATURE 345W Memoir is rooted in autobiographical fact, but it is also art. It selects, arranges, and sometimes exaggerates, retouches, or mythologizes its materials in order to bring out a deeper truth, define an identity, establish a public image, deal with trauma, or simply tell a better story. Writing about one's life is not only the next best thing to reliving it, as Benjamin Franklin said, it may also be an improvement upon it in the satisfaction it gives in bringing chaos to order. The course will explore the activity of writing the past in memoirs and in autobiographical fiction Readings will likely include works by Mary McCarthy ("Memories of a Catholic Girlhood"), John Updike ("Self-Consciousness" and short stories), Alice Munro (memoirs and stories), Virginia Woolf ("Moments of Being"), Kay Redfield Jamison ("An Unquiet Mind"), and Henry Louis Gates ("Colored People"). Students will write and revise two autobiographical essays and one critical paper. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement. Course Attributes: EN H; BU Hum; AS HUM; AS WI I; FA HUM; AR HUM; EL TC Section 01Memory and Narrative: The Literature of Memory INSTRUCTOR: MilderM-W---- 01:00 PM | 0228 103 View Course Listing - SP2022 View Course Listing - SP2023 Quick LinksNewsEventsOur PeopleFaculty BookshelfDepartment AwardsResourcesContactAdditional information Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&SCopyright 2024 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisFollow Us Facebook Twitter Contact Us: Department of English [email protected] Visit the main Washington University in St. Louis website1 Brookings Drive / St. Louis, MO 63130 / wustl.edu