Humanities Conference

http://www.essex.edu/pr/2017/03/10/humanities-week-at-essex-county-college/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=humanities-week-at-essex-county-college

Blindness

Here are some reviews for the novel:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/reviews/981004.04millert.html

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/28/132292587/in-saramagos-blindness-a-vision-of-human-nature

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/apr/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview16

http://www.thenewcanon.com/blindness.html










Blindness as a literary device:

http://www.read-irresponsibly.com/2007/05/blindness-jose-saramago/

Updated 215 Syllabus

Updated 215 Syllabus

Spring 2017

March

13 Raisin in the Sun

20 Blindness

27 Blindness

April

3  Blindness, Assign Essay

10 Drafts Due (Meet in 1141 with any questions)

17  PAPER DUE

Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Literature (Blindness)

Next week we will begin looking at Blindness, which is a novel set in what feels the Apocalypse.

Below are some articles that will help explain what this means;

http://io9.com/5392430/research-reveals-that-apocalyptic-stories-changed-dramatically-20-years-ago

http://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/4399/what-is-apocalyptic-literature

http://sites.silaspartners.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID34418_CHID137699_CIID2304042,00.html

http://www.revelation.giffmex.org/?p=71

http://theambulantscholar.com/2012/07/14/teaching-genre-and-convetion-using-the-post-apocalyptic-narrative-part-i/

http://csuchico-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.4/187/4%2015%202010%20Karl%20Becker.pdf?sequence=1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/boria-sax-/apocalypse-no-more-post-a_b_4994358.html

REMINDER---

WE DO NOT MEET FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS

NEXT CLASS IS MONDAY FEB 27

FINISH A RAISIN IN THE SUN 

A Raisin in the Sun

Below are links that would function as strong outside sources:
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/araisininthesun/historicalcontext.html

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/36902365/somewhat-like-war-aesthetics-segregation-black-liberation-and-raisin-sunhttp://lifeofannekathrin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/race-in-a-raisin-in-the-sun.pdf

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=45950

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=62331

You can look through these links to see if any may be useful for your paper:

https://www.google.com/#q=a+raisin+in+the+sun+scholarly+articles

this link will explain how to quote and cite a play in your paper:
http://libguides.pstcc.edu/content.php?pid=24540&sid=1751573
American Dream:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/12/10/many-feel-the-american-dream-is-out-of-reach-poll-shows/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=aut&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0&referrer

The Great Gatsby Podcast

http://www.wnyc.org/story/95326-american-icons-the-great-gatsby/

The Great Gatsby Video Game

The Great Gatsby Video Game:

Below is the link to a number of outside sources for the first essay:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Fitzgerald.htm

The game looks like the whole Nintendo video games. Kind of like Super Mario Bros.

Here are some links about the game:

http://theweek.com/article/index/212144/the-great-gatsby-video-game

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/the_great_gatsby_now_a_video_g.html

http://boingboing.net/2011/02/16/great-gatsby-nes-gam.html

This link provides a link to where you can play the game:

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/02/15/play-the-great-gatsby-video-game/

Here is a youtube video of the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWKrz7yogM

The Great Gatsby

Taking a few mintues to read some background information on the author will enhance your understanding of the text.

Here are a few quotes to also think about from the text:
 “ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1).

“”a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock” (22).

”He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself” (48).

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (60).

Article from class today on the green light:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/education/17gatsby.html?referrer=&_r=1

and one on the American Dream:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-usa-land-of-limitations.html?referrer=&_r=1

This link discusses some random facts about the novel and the writer:

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/07/gatsby_facts.php

The Wire breaks down The Great Gatsby (There is some strong language here):

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ithe_wirei_breaks_down_ithe_great_gatsbyi_f_scott_fitzgeralds_classic_criticism_of_america_nsfw.html

Footage of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/rare_footage_of_scott_and_zelda_fitzgerald_from_the_1920s.html

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/THE GREAT GATSBY

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=the%20great%20gatsby

Race and The Great Gatsby:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/rise-of-the-colored-empires/276844/

https://www.uscupstate.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Research/Reseach_Journal/006_ARTICLE5_2009.pdf

http://flavorwire.com/391193/the-complicated-and-troubling-role-of-race-and-class-in-baz-luhrmanns-Gatsby

https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/why-i-believe-that-jay-gatsby-was-black/153166.article

Was Gatsby Broke?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/was-the-great-gatsby-broke.html

Why I Despise The Great Gatsby:
http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/schulz-on-the-great-gatsby.html

In Defense of Gatsby:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/05/07/in-defense-of-the-great-gatsby/?utm_term=.b899051c3407