Instructor: Tara Menon
Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBA
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students
How do we write about death and mourning? Can literature help us cope with the pain of loss? What techniques do writers employ to convey grief? Can we make the dead immortal through words? In this course, we will read (and watch) widely, from Greek plays to nineteenth-century elegies to twentieth-century memoirs and twenty-first century television. Across genres, we will pay particular attention to form and the techniques of close reading. Works by writers including: Sophocles, Tennyson, Dickinson, Auden, Hopkins, Hardy, Shelly, Joan Didion, Jesmyn Ward, Max Porter, Helen McDonald, Angie Thomas, Sonali Deranyigala.