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Joan Aleshire: Breaking Apart: Emotion versus Sentimentality (July 1995)

$5.00

Richard Hugo’s often-quoted remark that a writer must “risk sentimentality” may lead us to believe that the line between sentimentality and genuine emotion is a fine one. Yet in this lecture, Joan Aleshire shows how the two are radically different, and arise from two distinct stances a writer can take toward her material. In order to arrive at true feeling, Aleshire suggests, we must be willing to let go of what we think we know; she looks at work by Shakespeare, Sappho, Keats, Dickinson, Alice Munro and others for examples.

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Poetry
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Faculty Member

Aleshire, Joan

Residency

1995 – July

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