LAE 507 Women's Lives into Literature

How do writers transform their life experience into fiction, plays, poetry, memoir, and other works of literature ? what is left out, what is added, how are elements altered, considering the special skills of a given writer? Students keep a journal and transform their own personal life experience into their chosen form of literature. Students consider their own historical context and specific cultural influences, while investigating these forces on American writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Lillian Hellman, Lorraine Hansberry, and others. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None 3 semester hours

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