Courses
2008 . First Semester
     
  Evil: from the Bible to Literature


Schedule

Feb 26 Introductory Class
28 Gen 3 & The Fall (Catechism)
March 4 Milton: Paradise Lost (i: 242-70; ix: 655-792)
6 Golding: Free Fall
11 Mt 6:9-13 & Shakespeare: Macbeth (I.5)
13 Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil"
18 Deely: "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Catholic Church"
25 Dubus: "Killings"
27 Carver: "Popular Mechanics"/"Little Things"
April 1 Jackson: "The Lottery"
3 Sharpe: "Evil"
8 The Angry God from the Bible
10 Gen 6-7 & Coover: "The Brother"
15 The Book of Job
17 Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" & Mather: "Salem Trials"
22 Midterm Exam
24 Mk 15:33-39 & Billy Budd
29 Feira das Profissões
May 6 Levin: Rosemary's Baby (movie)
8 Levin: Rosemary's Baby (movie)
13 Oates: "The Night Nurse"
15 Rev 21:1-18 & O'Connor: "Revelation"
20 Watson: "The Identity of Evil"
27 Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — reading day
29 Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
June 3 Doctorow: "Vietnam", from City of God
5 Gen 22:1-19 & Owen: "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
10 Ricoeur: "Evil, a Challenge to Philosophy and Theology"
12 Doctorow: "To Remake God", from City of God
17 Final Exam


Updated May 8, 2008


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