ENGL7027 · English

Inhabiting Narrative

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

This class will explore the way that different narrative forms, including the novel, the short story, film, photography and graphic memoir, capture the rhythms of consciousness, emotion, habit, spatial orientation and embodiment. Focusing on the tension between everyday experience and heightened moments of crisis or insight, we will consider how narrative captures the elusive and complex dynamics of embodied subjectivity through voice, image and form. We will focus on narratives of the last century, including literature by Faulkner, Hemingway, Morrison, Robinson, and DeLillo, films including Lost in Translation, Rachel Getting Married and What Maisie Knew, and photography collections by Shelburne Thurber, Nicholas Nixon and Andrew Moore. We will contextualize these works with snippets of narrative theory, phenomenology, and everyday life theory.