01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR
Krug Hall 19
Section Information for Spring 2018
Using the Library of America's landmark True Crime: An Anthology, this course samples significant examples of crime reportage and commentary to explore the various ways in which, as that anthology's editor explains it, "the human community, finding itself under assault from within, searches desperately for a framework or context to explain the apparently unexplainable." Ranging from traditional journalism to new journalism and from personal essay to memoir and examining one of the seminal nonfiction novels, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, this course will evaluate the genre's ability to reflect historical eras and engage social, cultural, and even philosophical problems. Additional readings will include examples of how poets and fiction writers have responded to actual crimes, blurring the lines between nonfiction writing and other genres, and we'll listen to a true crime podcast as well.
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Credits: 3
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