Course Summary

In this course, you will explore the body as both a contested site and a potent source of knowledge. Through a diverse range of readings and exercises, you’ll analyse novels and stories that are directly shaped by embodied experience, and experiment with different approaches to writing these experiences that so often evade descriptive language.

Course Outline

Participants will be given a section of prose—either a story or an excerpt from a novel—to read in advance of meeting. Each week, through discussion and specifically designed exercises, you’ll consider where and how the body makes itself known: through symbolism, metaphor, syntax and rhythm.

 Authors include Carmen Maria Machado, Garth Greenwell and Bhanu Kapil. 

Course Outcomes

Participants will be encouraged to develop their own nuanced piece of embodied writing.

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