We will then explore Faulkner's influence on later Nobel Prize winners, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, both of whom acknowledge a literary genealogy that includes this great Southern writer. We shall read these two pieces and many other works from other Beat writers including Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Bob Kaufman. Further, we shall examine film, music, and art in our efforts to define that American existentialist quality now known as Beat Literature. This course allows students to read and discuss work from the British tradition, including poetry, drama, essays and novels. Authors might include Austen, Johnson, Dickens, Woolf, Pinter, and Stevenson.
Students keep a reading journal that provides an opportunity for personal reflection and analysis.
Shakespeare anticipated what we now call existentialism. Students will keep a journal of reader responses and design a final project. African and Caribbean Literature Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean have a rich and varied literature. You've read several of Shakespeare's plays. Here's an opportunity to read several more.