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Master Class: States of Feeling
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.
Beginning Fall 2021, we will be adding select in-person classes back to our course catalog. The majority of our classes will still be offered via Zoom.
If a class says IN-PERSON in its title, it will take place in person at our permanent home in Seattle.
If a class says ASYNCHRONOUS in its title, it will take place on Wet Ink, our asynchronous learning platform.
If a class does not have a marker after its title, it will take place via Zoom.
Instructor: Leslie Jamison
Class Type: 1 Session
Nonfiction, PoetryStart Date: 11/20/2015
Days of the Week: Friday
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST
Minimum Class Size: 5
Maximum Class Size: 15
$121.50
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Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison is the author of the novel The Gin Closet and a collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, which won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and garnered praise in a number of publications, including the New York Times and a place on Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List.” Her work has appeared or will appear in places like Harper’s, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Believer. She’s a columnist for the New York Times Book Review and is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation at Yale about addiction narratives. She lives in Brooklyn.