Monday, July 14, 2008
Camus and "The Guest"
Look up absurdism. What choice is he faced with? What decision does he make and what is the consequence. How is Daru's position absurd?
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"Were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a fairer day could not dawn upon that world." - Moby-Dick (Chase - The Third Day)
Prof. Michael R. Broek
About Michael
- Michael Broek
- is an Assistant Professor of English at Brookdale Community College. He is currently completing his Ph.D in American Literature at the University of Essex (UK). His thesis/dissertation concerns issues of aesthetics, nationalism, and the works of Hawthorne and Melville. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Goddard College, and his work has been published in journals such as The Cimarron Review, The Sycamore Review, The Clackamas Review, Sundog, Slipstream, 42opus, The Paterson Literary Review, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere in print and online. He is the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts.
Schedule: World Literature II
World Literature II
Schedule
Week I- Introduction/Literary History Tour (Enlightenment Rationalism, Romanticism, Modernism, Post-Modernism)
Week 2: A New Way of Thinking - Descartes: Cogito Ergo Sum; Leibniz: From Theodicy; and Voltaire: Candide, Part 1
Week 3: Satire and the Limits of Rationalism - Franklin: "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly"; Jefferson: "Notes on the State of Virgina"; Sift: "A Modest Proposal"; Voltaire: Candide, Part 2
Week 4: Art's Resistance to Nationalism - Marx's Communist Manifesto, Chap. 1, Dostoevsky: “The Grand Inquisitor” (541-556); Neruda, "I'm Explaining a Few Things,"; Taha Muhammad Ali: "Revenge"; Martin Espada: "Alabanza"; Adrienne Rich: "Diving Into the Wreck"; Chika Sagawa: "Backside"
Week 5: I'd Prefer Not To - Melville: "Bartleby the Scrivener";
Week 6: People Don't Do Such Things - Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and An Enemy of the People; Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus";
Week 7: Slipping On Bananas - Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape; Camus' "The Guest"; William Butler Years: "Leda and the Swan"; Lucille Clifton: "Leda (1, 2, 3); W.H. Auden: "Musee des Beaux Arts"; William Carlos Williams: "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus"; Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons;
Week 8: Jorge Luis Borge - "The Garden of Forking Paths"; Ernest Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants"
Week 9: Naguib Mahfouz -
Week 10: Jose Saramago -
Week 11: Wole Soyinka -
Week 12: James Joyce -
Week 13: Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Week 14: Franz Kafka
Schedule
Week I- Introduction/Literary History Tour (Enlightenment Rationalism, Romanticism, Modernism, Post-Modernism)
Week 2: A New Way of Thinking - Descartes: Cogito Ergo Sum; Leibniz: From Theodicy; and Voltaire: Candide, Part 1
Week 3: Satire and the Limits of Rationalism - Franklin: "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly"; Jefferson: "Notes on the State of Virgina"; Sift: "A Modest Proposal"; Voltaire: Candide, Part 2
Week 4: Art's Resistance to Nationalism - Marx's Communist Manifesto, Chap. 1, Dostoevsky: “The Grand Inquisitor” (541-556); Neruda, "I'm Explaining a Few Things,"; Taha Muhammad Ali: "Revenge"; Martin Espada: "Alabanza"; Adrienne Rich: "Diving Into the Wreck"; Chika Sagawa: "Backside"
Week 5: I'd Prefer Not To - Melville: "Bartleby the Scrivener";
Week 6: People Don't Do Such Things - Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and An Enemy of the People; Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus";
Week 7: Slipping On Bananas - Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape; Camus' "The Guest"; William Butler Years: "Leda and the Swan"; Lucille Clifton: "Leda (1, 2, 3); W.H. Auden: "Musee des Beaux Arts"; William Carlos Williams: "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus"; Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons;
Week 8: Jorge Luis Borge - "The Garden of Forking Paths"; Ernest Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants"
Week 9: Naguib Mahfouz -
Week 10: Jose Saramago -
Week 11: Wole Soyinka -
Week 12: James Joyce -
Week 13: Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Week 14: Franz Kafka