ARTS 215A/B Man in Crisis (Literary Views)
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1972–73 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
A critical study of such themes as freedom vs. happiness, nihilism, collectivism vs. individualism, old tablets vs. utopias, alienation, earthbound fragmentation vs. the transcendental in the artistic writings of Kafka, Brecht, Hesse, Nietzsche, Solzhenitsyn, Dostoevsky, Zamiatin, Camus, and others. Taught in English
As printed in the 1977–78 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1972–73 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1977–78 to 1994–95 13 calendars
A critical study of such themes as freedom vs. happiness, nihilism, collectivism vs. individualism, old tablets vs. utopias, alienation, earthbound fragmentation vs. the transcendental in the artistic writings of Kafka, Brecht, Hesse, Nietzsche, Solzhenitsyn, Dostoevsky, Zamiatin, Camus, and others. Taught in English
- 1977–78 PDF p. 229
- 1978–79 PDF p. 230
- 1979–80 PDF p. 239
- 1980–81 PDF p. 252
- 1982–83 PDF p. 267
- 1983–84 PDF p. 285
- 1984–85 PDF p. 285
- 1988–89* PDF p. 306
- 1989–90* PDF p. 322
- 1990–91* PDF p. 327
- 1991–92* PDF p. 334
- 1992–93* PDF p. 330
- 1994–95* PDF p. 333
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
1972–73 to 1976–77 5 calendars
The study of representative European prose, drama, and poetry, from the writings of Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Zamiatin, Hesse, Kafka, Brecht, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Camus, Malraux, Sartre, and others. An attempt will be made to critically analyse the creative writer’s artistic presentation of the ever-widening rift between environment and “inner man”, the will of the collective and non-conformity of the individual; nihilism — the result of extreme rationalization —; the mystic longing for the transcendental, and other related themes. Prerequisite: Open to all students. Taught in English.