Master Class: States of Feeling [Leslie Jamison]

If we are trained to despise sentimentality, how do we represent sentiment? This class will examine emotion across a range of works – from Leo Tolstoy to Anne Carson – in considering this primal, impossible, necessary question: how can writing evoke feeling? We’ll also do some writing of our own to explore the role that metaphor, sensation, and exposition might play in these evocations.