HUMANITIES 5 Professor
Wm. Arctander O'Brien
Spring 2008 Office: Lit. Bldg.
328 (3rd floor)
Office hours: M & F, 2:15-3:45
MWF 1:00 – 1:50 pm Literature Office: (858) 534-3210
Ledden Auditorium Private Office: (858)
534-4660
e-mail:
wobrien@ucsd.edu
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
21 Eliot,
"The
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. [
4 Dylan,
Selected Recordings, 1962-2001.
6 Conclusion
Final Examination: THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 11:30 a.m. –
2:30 p.m.