HUMANITIES 5                                                                                                      Professor Wm. Arctander O'Brien

Spring 2008                                                                                                            Office:  Lit. Bldg.  328 (3rd floor)

                                                                                                                                   Office hours: M & F, 2:15-3:45

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                                                                                SYLLABUS

 

March               31      Introduction

April                  2       Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

                           4       Marx, The Communist Manifesto

 

   7       Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ (1888)

  9       Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

11       Kafka, "The Metamorphosis" (1912)

 

 14       Kafka, "The Metamorphosis"

 16       Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917)

 18       Eliot, "The Waste Land" (1922)

 

21        Eliot, "The Waste Land"

23        Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)

25        Woolf, A Room of One's Own

 

                        28        Freud, Outline of Psychoanalysis (1936)

                         30       Freud, Outline of Psychoanalysis

May                  2        Freud, Outline of Psychoanalysis

 

                          5        Freud, Outline of Psychoanalysis

                          7        Freud, Outline of Psychoanalysis

  9        Lecture: World War II

 

12        Lecture: Existentialism

14        Sartre, No Exit (1944)

16        Sartre, The Flies (1942)

 

19        Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)  (pp. XXV-138)  

21        Beauvoir, The Second Sex

23        Genet, The Balcony (1956)

 

26        [holiday]

                        28        Ginsberg,  Howl and Other Poems (1956)

                        30        Ginsberg,  Howl and Other Poems (1956)

 

June                  2        Dylan, Selected Recordings, 1962-2001.  [Lyrics available from University Readers.]

                          4        Dylan, Selected Recordings, 1962-2001. 

                          6        Conclusion

 

Final Examination: THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.