Creative Writing Studio: Sublime, Beauty, & Horror

Undergraduate / Graduate

This workshop-centered course invites writers to navigate the "sublime" in poetry and prose, that boundary between beauty and horror in contemporary writing. What defines a moment of insight or the impulse of horror? How does the sublime offer means of engaging the boundary between the human and nonhuman worlds in the present moment? What formal play has previously explored these boundaries? To these ends, we will examine work by writers including Angela Carter, Xi Chuan, Lauren Groff, Mona Susan Power, and Dubravka Ugresic.