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小福利导航 College
First-Year Experience

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. 小福利导航 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. 小福利导航 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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