21L.422
Tragedy
Fall 2002
Topics
- Aeschylus. The Orestia.
- Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
- Euripides. Hippolytus.
- Shakespeare. King Lear.
- Shakespeare. King Lear. (continued)
- Shakespeare. Macbeth.
- Shakespeare. Macbeth. (continued)
- Balzac. Père Goriot.
- Balzac. Père Goriot. (continued)
- Melville, Herman. Benito Cerino.
- Melville, Herman. Benito Cerino. (continued)
- Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House.
- Ibsen, Henrick. A Doll’s House. (continued)
- Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness.
- Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. (continued)
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. (continued)
- Dinesan, Isaak. “Sorrow-Acre.”
- Camus, Albert. The Stranger.
- Camus, Albert. The Stranger. (continued)
- Levi, Primo. “The Gray Zone”, from The Drowned and the Saved.
Readings
- Introduction. Leviticus , 16.
- Sophocles. Antigone .
- 4 · Sophocles. Oedipus Rex .
- 5 · Euripides. Hippolytus .
- Plato. The Apology of Socrates , Crito .
- Frye, Northrop. excerpt from Anatomy of Criticism .
- Nietzsche. Birth of Tragedy , ch. 1-17.
- 9 · Shakespeare. King Lear. (continued)
- 11 · Shakespeare. Macbeth. (continued)
- 13 · Balzac. Père Goriot. (continued)
- 14 · Balzac. Père Goriot. (continued)
- 15 · Melville, Herman. Benito Cerino .
- 16 · Melville, Herman. Benito Cerino. (continued)
- 18 · Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House. (continued.)
- 20 · Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. (continued)
- 21 · Fitzgerald, F.Scott. The Great Gatsby .
- 22 · Fitzgerald, F.Scott. The Great Gatsby. (continued)
- 24 · Camus, Albert. The Stranger .
- 25 · Camus, Albert. The Stranger. (continued)
- 26 · Levi, Primo. “The Gray Zone”, from The Drowned and the Saved .
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.