How do we articulate experiences of loss? What are our responsibilities toward the dead in piecing together their history? How do works of elegy or memorial give enduring form to what is absent or transient? This course asks how we make sense of our own and others’ mortality through literature and art, how we translate grief into works of mourning and recollection. We will consider how works experiment with form to evoke the pliable nature of memory, non-linear patterns of grief, and the limits of representation. The course will culminate in a creative piece reflecting on loss, memory, or mortality.
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