University
of Hawai‘i at Manoa
| Department
of English
ENG 257O: Literature and Society: The Literary Hotel
Semester: Spring 2006 Time:
TR 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Place: HIG
311
Instructor: John Zuern
Office: Kuykendall 219
Office Hours:
TR
1:30 - 3:00 (and by appointment)
Email (the best way
to contact me): zuern@hawaii.edu Telephone: 956-3019
Syllabus | Schedule |
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| Teams
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Hamilton
Library | UH
Computer Labs | ESCC
Midterm Review
Genesis 19 (the story of Lot)
- character
- dialogue
- identity
- laws of hospitality
- narrative
- theme
Homer, Odyssey, Book VIII
Ovid, Metamorphoses, "Philemon and Baucis"
Camus, "The Guest"
- Albert Camus 1913 (Algeria) -1960 (France)
- 1830 French claim Algeria in North Africa
- 1954-1962 Algerian War of Independence against France
- 1957 publication of Camus' "The Guest" (in Exile and the Kingdom
and Camus' Nobel Prize
- ambiguity
- absurdity
- choice
- colonialism
- existentialism
- freedom
- image
- irony
- motif
- pieds noir
- settler
Forster, "The Road from Colonus"
- E. M. Forster 1879 (London) - 1970 (Coventry)
- 1911 publication
- 1957 date of Forster's "The Road from Colonus"
- Antigone
- Colonus
- Hermes Psychopompus
- Oedipus
- Penelope
- Sophocles
- allusion
- coincidence
- genius loci
- Hellenism
- khan
- landscape
- refuge
- resort
- tour
- tourist
Apio, Kamau
- Alani Apio
- 1995 premiere at Kumu Kahua Theater
- 1848 Great Mahele (land division and privatization in Hawai'i)
- act (component of a traditional Western drama)
- allegory
- authenticity
- characterization
- dialogue
- dilemma
- drama
- dramatic irony
- exposition
- Hawaiian Homestead lands
- ideology
- indigenous
- kamau
- ko'a
- microcosm
- paternalism
- playwright
- reparation
- rights
- scene (component of a traditional Western drama)
- stagecraft
- structure
Theroux, Hotel Honolulu
- Paul Theroux
- creole
- façade
- gentrification
- literacy
- novel
- pidgin
- point of view
- seasonal hires/temporary workers
- self-referentiality
Frears, Dirty Pretty Things (film)
- asylum
- cinematography
- editing
- human trafficking/organ trafficking
- identity
- immigrant
- jump cut
- peripety
- refugee
- state
- subaltern
Syllabus | Schedule |
Assignments
| Teams
| Web
Resources
WebCT | Remark |
Hamilton
Library | UH
Computer Labs | ESCC
last updated 03/02/06 by
jz