LIT-314 The New Confessional

Sylvia Plath said "I, who reportedly write so truthfully about myself, so openly, am not that open." In this course we’ll trace the ways poets have subverted and expanded our notion of what the confessional poem is, from its 1957 debut, (Robert Lowell’s Still Life) to the 21st century. Readings will include Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, John Berryman, Ntozake Shange, Sandra Cisneros, Afaa Weaver, Maggie Nelson, Sharon Olds, Judy Jordon, and Ocean Vuong, among others.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

One 200-level course in Literature

Offered

Fall

Notes

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