Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Imagining Memory: Memoir, Movies, Storytelling
Instructor(s): Melora Wolff, English
An exploration of memory and imagination as creative tools for storytelling in memoir-film and autobiographical literature. Students analyze dramatic and documentary films, fictions and essays that make the problem of autobiographical remembering their central subject. A focus on craft techniques in hybrid works of imaginative design and autobiographical detail. Topics include atemporality, collaged image, fragments and flickers, lyric structure, 鈥渕ise en abyme鈥� (story within story), and persona. Students write critical essays and make creative writing projects. Multiple lenses are applied to the art and science of remembering and imagining as storytelling tools: cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, theology, and history. Foundational skills for essay writing, creative writing, memory studies, and film studies.
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