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

Midterm Review

Genesis 19 (the story of Lot)

character
dialogue
identity
laws of hospitality
narrative
theme

Homer, Odyssey, Book VIII

class (social rank)

Ovid, Metamorphoses, "Philemon and Baucis"

etiological myth

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

last updated 03/02/06 by jz