UJ Violence and American Literature (MA)

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WELCOME 



 

I. Syllabus and Course Readings 



II. Course Readings: 


Week One

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

Social Psychology (Chapter 12) 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wUzR_c683uuI4QHhszHHN67hfLHzfeEL/view?usp=sharing

Weeks Two - Four

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

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

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

The Politics of Collective Violence (Charles Tilly, Chapters 1, 2, 4) 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y_qyQxxvnSqpWLGbDNN5srRFVHJGEGJw/view?usp=sharing

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

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


Weeks Five - Six

Chickamauga:


The War Prayer:


The Girard Reader (Parts I and II) 


Weeks Seven - Eight 

The Things They Carried ("The Lives of the Dead, pp. 213-232) 


Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy (Excerpts) 


Violence S. Zizek 


Bloodlust 

Weeks Nine - Ten

Jesus' Son Denis Johnson Critical Literature 

On Violence: A Reader Hannah Arendt (pp. 416-443)


To Kingdom Come Timothy Parrish 


Doesn't He Ever Learn? John Ochoa



Weeks Eleven - Twelve 

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 Thirteen - Fourteen 

The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 

Violence and the Word Robert Cover 

https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.gatech.edu/dist/c/359/files/2016/01/Violence-and-the-Word-1986.pdf?bid=359


Week Fifteen FINAL PRESENTATIONS

SIGN - UP AND SCORING RUBRIC

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


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