Revisiting Childhood

This course will concentrate on the theme of childhood in the writing of three authors from different backgrounds and time periods: Leo Tolstoy, N. Scott Momaday, and Eudora Welty. We will explore a child’s perception of the world, the experiences that shape one’s personality, the people who influence us, and our relationship to the home and the outside world we are born into.

Required Reading:

Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, (Rosengrant translation) 978-0140449921; N. Scott Momaday, The Names, ISBN 978-0816510467; Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings, ISBN 978-0674639256.

Ann Kimmage believes memoirs expand our horizon and deepen our understanding of life.