Survey of Creative Nonfiction.

Catalog description

This introductory survey course provides exposure to reading and analyzing a variety of creative nonfiction including reportage, criticism and commentary, memoir, and the personal essay to explore how the genre can be both honest and creative. Students will examine the use of voice, subjectivity, emotion, speculation, memory, humor, imagination, and the complicated idea of truth in nonfiction literature in its various forms, and discuss how nonfiction is conceived and constructed.