ENGL 130 Writing about Literature: Space and Solitude
Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. An examination of what Wallace Stegner has called the western writer's sense of vastness, and how the particular qualities of the western landscape - space, wilderness, solitude - affect the people who live there. Readings may include Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, Rick Bass' The Book of Yaak, Normal McLean's A River Runs Through It, and Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven.
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