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