ENG 6939 Summer 2023 Roberts

Summer
2023
ENG 6939
Topics in English: Nonfiction from Michel de Montaigne to Hua Hsu
Diane Roberts
dkroberts@fsu.edu

In this course we will study nonfiction as a literary form, memoir, literary journalism, and essays (among other varieties). We will consider early forms of the genre in the 17th century and proceed through the centuries with work by authors such as Thoreau, Orwell, Woolf, Capote, Hurston, Didion, Baldwin and others.

Requirements: This course fulfills the requirement for coursework in the following Area of Concentration: a Literary Genre (Nonfiction) and post-1900 Literary and Cultural Studies.