Topic:  Existentialism and the Literature of the 	Absurd
	9:30-1045	TR	BH 229

This course will study existentialism not as a philosophy but as a
"timeless sensibility" (Kaufmann) preoccupied with questions that
arise from the human condition, such as suffering, death, dread,
despair, guilt and responsibility.  This existentialist sensibility is
present in the works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre and others, as
well as in the fiction of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus, Unamuno, and much
of what is generally known as the "theatre of the absurd,"  including
Jarry, Beckett and Ionesco.  There will be two in-class quizzes and
two take-home essay exams.