Middlebury

CRWR 0389

The Contemplative Essay

The Contemplative Essay
In this course we will write personal narratives and essays based on our own life experience, using the standard workshop format and a one-hour required weekly lab in Basic Mindfulness, a form of Burmese Vipassana meditation. Essays will emphasize fact, as well as insight into work, life, and writing. Readings will illustrate previous writers’ contemplative experiences, as well as matters of craft, including works by Michel de Montaigne, Rainer Maria Rilke, William James, TS Eliot, Eihei Dogen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rebecca Solnit, David Abram, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder. (ENAM 0170 or approval required) 3 hrs. lect./1 hr. lab.
Subject:
Creative Writing
Department:
English & American Literatures
Division:
Literature
Requirements Fulfilled:
LIT PHL

Sections

Spring 2017

CRWR0389A-S17 Lecture (Shaw)

Spring 2016

CRWR0389A-S16 Lecture (Shaw)
CRWR0389B-S16 Lecture (Shaw)