The course is focused on the empathic imagination as a value and a literary technique. What is personal and what is autobiographic. Personal narration through someone else’s biography. Getting into someone else’s story, into other points of view. Empathic narration through non-anthropocentric points of view. Getting into different contexts and different styles. Transformation of a text from specific genre/style into another. Our beginnings. The seducing function of the title, the epigraph, the first sentence. Famous beginnings of 19th and 20th century novels. Lyrics and empathy. Poetry and everyday life. How to make a poem out of small and perishable things. What non-literary genres could be used in poetry: lists, recipes, passport description (Leonhard Coen), note on the fridge (W.C. Williams).
