Lecture:
- Monday 10-11 am [QB7]
Workshops:
- Group 1 Tuesday 1-3 pm [SC2]
- Group 2 Wednesday 10-12 noonThurs 10-12 noon [QA5]
- Group 3 Thursday 8-10am [SC1]
Week 1
Lecture 1
What is Life Writing? Its History and Scope [Dr. Mary Paul]
Texts:
- Andrei Codrescu: 'Adding to My Life,' from Autobiography and Postmodernism, ed. Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore and Gerald Peters (1994)
- Daniel Defoe: from The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1721)
- Three Vignettes: from The New Zealand Experience: 100 Vignettes, ed. Brian Shaw & Kathy Broadley (1985)
No workshops in Week 1
Week 2
Lecture 2
Memory [Dr. Mary Paul]
Texts:
Workshop 1: 'This is the indelible place you came from'
Week 3
Lecture 3
Memoirs, Diaries [Dr. Mary Paul]
Texts:
- Emily Carr: 'Sunday,' from The Book of Small (1942)
- Katherine Mansfield: from The Notebooks (1997)
- Virginia Woolf: 'A Sketch of the Past,' from Moments of Being (1989)
- Laura Alcoba: 'Introduction & Chapter One,' from The Rabbit House: An Argentinean Childhood (2008)
Workshop 2: Changes
Week 4
Lecture 4
Biography (via Autobiography) [Dr. Mary Paul]
Texts:
Workshop 3: Questionnaire
- Leslie T. Chang: 'The Stele with No Name,' from Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China (2009)
- Brian Easton: 'The (Economic) Life of Harry,' from The Listener (10 June, 2000: 57)
- Xu Zhimo: 'Mansfield,' from A Fine Pen: The Chinese View of Katherine Mansfield, ed. Shifen Gong (2001)
Week 5
Lecture 5
Oral History / Collecting Data [Dr. Mary Paul]
Texts:
- Judith Fyfe & Hugo Manson: from Oral History and How to Approach It (1997)
Workshop 4: Writing a Journal Entry
Week 6
Lecture 6
Case Studies:
The Uses of Life Writing [Panel of Researchers]
Workshop 5: Rules and Taboos
Workshop 6: Family Gatherings
Journal Due (Monday, 8 April)
Week 7
Lecture 7AND / OR
Confession or Performance? [Dr. Mary Paul]
Texts:
Workshop 6: Family Gatherings
- Ted Hughes: 'The Rabbit Catcher' & 'The Shot,' from Birthday Letters (1998)
- Sylvia Plath: from The Bell Jar (1966)
- Sylvia Plath: ‘The Rabbit Catcher,’ ‘Daddy’ & ‘Lady Lazarus,’ from Collected Poems (1981)
- Sylvia Plath: from The Journals, ed. Ted Hughes (1983)
- Sylvia Plath: from The Journals, ed. Karen V. Kukil (2001)
Workshop 7: Seven - Intensity
Week 8
Lecture 8
Genre [Dr. Jack Ross]
Texts:
- Elizabeth Bishop: 'In the Village,' from Questions of Travel (1965)
- Robert Lowell: 'The Scream,' from For the Union Dead (1964)
Workshop 8: Life Studies
Exercises Due (Thursday, 3 May)
Week 9
Lecture 9
Subversion [Dr. Jack Ross]
Texts:
- J. G. Ballard: 'The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race,' from The Day of Forever (1967)
- Georges Perec: from W, or the Memory of Childhood (1975)
Workshop 9: Life Distortions
Week 10
Lecture 10
Politics of Lives [Dr. Mary Paul]
Texts:
- Norman Bilbrough: 'The Facts of Life: Him,' from Grace (January 2001: 62-64)
- Anne Sexton: ‘The Double Image,’ ‘For My Lover Returning To His Wife' & ‘The Fury of Overshoes,’ from The Complete Poems (1981)
- Ngahuia Te Awekotuku: ‘Old Man Tuna,' from Tahuri (1989)
- Jane Westaway: 'The Facts of Life: Her,' from Grace (January 2001: 59-61)
Workshop 10: Discussing Proposals
Proposal Due (Thursday, 10th May)
Week 11
Lecture 11
Writing a Biography [tba]
Texts:
- Janet Hunt: 'Green-leaved Anguish,' from Hone Tuwhare: A Biography (1998)
[No Workshop]
Week 12
Lecture 12
New Zealand Life Stories [Dr. Mary Paul]
Texts:
- Miriam Cameron: from 60s Chicks Hit the Nineties, ed. Jane Tolerton (1997)
- Michael King: 'The Long Shadow,' from Frank Sargeson: A Life (1995)
- Kathleen Pih-Chang: from Home Away from Home: Life Stories of Chinese Women in New Zealand, ed. Manying Ip (1990)
Workshop 11: Sharing Writing
Major Project Due (Friday, 7th June, after Queen's Birthday Weekend)
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