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FIST274
Camus, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir: The Paris School of Existential Writing
FIST274 SP
Crosslistings: COL 275
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 18 0 18
A study of the three great representatives of French
existential writing. The course 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.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
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: Discussion Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Viggiani, C
- Times: .T.T... 10:00AM;
- Grading Mode: Mixed
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 0, Jr: 0, So: 2, Fr: 1
- No Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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