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Academic Year 2000/2001

Camus, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir: The Paris School of Existential Writing
FIST 274 SP
Crosslistings:
COL 275

This course is a study of the three great representatives of French existential writing. It will concentrate on their fiction, plays and essays. The main themes and modes of existential writing will be studied as well as the concept of the committed writer.

MAJOR READINGS

Beauvoir. THE SECOND SEX (Selections) ADIEU; A FAREWELL TO SARTRE Camus. THE STRANGER; THE PLAGUE, THE FALL Sartre. EXISTENTIALISM AND HUMANISM; NAUSEA; THE WALL; NO EXIT; THE WORDS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Short papers, term paper (10 pp.), final examination.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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