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484A. Advanced Prose.

In this course, students will read about the personal essay and the lyric essay, read several examples of both, and then attempt to write and rewrite their own long essays.
David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Phillip Lopate, The Art of the Personal Essay
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
John D’Agata, The Next American Essay

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384