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Existential Literature PBA Guidelines

April 26, 2015 By

Literature and the Human Condition
PBA/Term Final Guidelines (Click link for Word Doc)

Contents of PBA include:

Context Paper: Final Draft due 06/05
Dates:
05/18–Thesis Statement
05/21–Detailed Outline (Including lit crit and contextual sources): Outline should detail each topic sentence as well as detail how each body paragraph will be developed (Including how will context source material and/or lit crit contribute to development of point)
05/28–First Draft
06/05–Final Draft

Creative Project Final: Due 05/15
Insight Paper: Due 05/15 [Read more…]

HW12G due 4/28: Transcendentalism

April 24, 2015 By

1. In addition to your Transcendental experience this weekend, read letters 6 and 7 from Letters to a Young Poet.

HW12C due 4/27: Steppenwolf

April 24, 2015 By

1. Steppenwolf–Read and annotate up to p. 86. So, that makes 12 pages of reading–a manageable amount! I expect you to have good control of what is happening in the novel up to this point. Also, Jung should begin to weave its way into your interpretation of the novel.

Due Tuesday 4/28: p. 112 (Stop as the paragraph ends at the very top of 112)
Due Thursday 4/30: p. 136 (Stop at: “With a curse, I came back to the razor.”)
Due Friday 5/1: p. 147 (Stop as the section comes to a close at the top of the page.)

2. Class Forum

HW10 due 4/27: No Exit and Class Forum

April 24, 2015 By

1. No Exit–Read through page 26 (stop after Estelle says, “As I told you, I haven’t a notion.” Extract everything from everything. Keep Sartre’s essay in mind. Additionally, we want to try and make sense of the author’s message. And perhaps more importantly, how does Sartre communicate that message? Remember, Sartre literally articulates the play’s primary themes at the end; so, let’s try and discern those themes before the end. To that end:
2. Class Forum

HW12C due 4/24: Steppenwolf and HCQ #2

April 23, 2015 By

1. Steppenwolf–Read and annotate up to p. 74

2. Human condition question #2 (HCQ #2)–I would like to spend the second half of class tomorrow in a Squircle! So, let’s craft another question that may be used to catalyze whole group discussion. Ideally, the question will be inspired by one of the themes discussed in class up to this point. Yet, this is not meant to be a discussion of course texts; it is meant to be a discussion of us. This should be a question that you are genuinely interested in exploring with your peers. Sample questions: 1. Do you ever feel like you’re living a life that doesn’t represent who you are or your morals and ideas? If so, how does this make you feel, and how do you react to it? 2. “…there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” (This is Water, David Foster Wallace) Do you agree or disagree with Wallace?

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