UJ (IPHSS) - Violence, Literature, and Culture

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Welcome! 

Syllabus: 


Readings: 
*On Violence: A Reader


*Literary Analysis: Steps 


*Close Reading Outline:

https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/Writing-Center/How-to-Write-a-Close-Reading.pdf

Week One: Introduction 

The Lottery

The Lottery--Shirley Jackson (bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com)

Violence: A Very Short Introduction (Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 7) 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QrKJBC60LC1Aa7H2U0ILsEqSsFdl21Rr/view?usp=sharing

Week Two

                                           Dry September

https://literaturesave2.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/william-faulkner-dry-september.pdf

Civilization and Its Discontents (Extracts, pp. 722-772)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y0pdJa13D89tJKr3p7qf_n97FpgcKAMe/view?usp=sharing

Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego (Overview) 

https://www.dbu.edu/mitchell/modern-resources/_documents/grouppsychologyandtheanalysisoftheego.pdf

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (Erich Fromm, pp. 185-216)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SArLJPvpqvleaH60JlkY9tTf5oqxcFw6/view?usp=sharing


Weeks Three - Six                                            Course Pack 

http://www.goodinenglish.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/8/3/39831819/lord_of_the_flies_unit_packet.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IgMNG34Ekm7nlqLirlr8C8lkjhZCtJ0F/view?usp=sharing

Ch. 1 pp. 21-30

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13IvUgraIhkXEndGrQIqpSF-xJMzO85vN/view?usp=sharing

Homo Necans (Extracts, pp. 1-82) 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p6ZwpbYyf5HGArimoo5nqAE5FiIV1qL0/view?usp=sharing


Weeks Seven 

The Vigilante John Steinbeck (pp. 1-13)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q4qzM41A7f68PgE4uxFFXTc0VRMV1Dn3/view?usp=sharing

Going to Meet the Man James Baldwin 

https://www.cristorey.net/uploaded/Academics/2019-2020/Summer_Reading/James_Baldwin_Going_To_Meet_the_Man.pdf

Bloodlust 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jSar12usT-JLn7eu5HJ9ZGBO9CEovfyq/view?usp=sharing

Discussion Questions: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-KAc4vOTwoT4K5Ry0Ds2xHvixQveyrhHg1M_14HzU-0/edit?usp=sharing

Weeks Eight-Ten


Weeks Eleven - Twelve: Terrorism and Anarchy 

On Violence

https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/arendt_originsoftotalitarianism.pdf

The Killers Ernest Hemingway

https://www.sfponline.org/Uploads/372/The%20Killers.pdf

A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor

https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/A-Good-Man-Is-Hard-To-Find-and-other-stories-OConnor-Flannery.pdf

 Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction Flannery O'Connor http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/ENGL/2900/Loosli/grot.pdf

Weeks Eleven - Fifteen: Apocalypse Now? 




Biography of Józef Korzeniowski 

https://www.slideshare.net/AiaMolanedaDating/joseph-conrad-24693227

Introduction to Colonialism in Africa: Belgian Congo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcF9fmTzqkg

Themes:

Primitivism 

Uncertainty

Imperial Authority

Jewelry 

Illness 

Insanity - Madness

Hypocrisy 

Racism 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdmpCCpE9-g

Course Pack 

https://mseffie.com/assignments/heart_of_darkness/handouts/AP%20HOD%20SG%20ALL.pdf


Literature as Equipment for Living: 

https://thefarfield.kscopen.org/literaryanalysis/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/literature-as-equipment-for-living.pdf

Opinion: War is Really Going Out of Style

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2011/12/21/war-really-is-going-out-of-style/


FINAL PRESENTATIONS

SIGN - UP AND SCORING RUBRIC

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a7PSlg5cBOHjvVNf9Uk9uif_FmoXGI0pwnLhAxJQrWc/edit?usp=sharing

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