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Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in Jon Beasley-Murray, lecture, powerpoint, Remake/Remodel, Repetition Compulsion, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with Achebe, Africa, anthropology, C20th, colonialism, Conrad, culture, difference, history, Identity, literature, novel, repetition

Camus, repetition, and the pains, graces, and distractions of consciousness

Here is Albert Camus on Sisyphus in 1942: “the gods. . . thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.” This, as Jill Fellows pointed out in her discussion of Camus is … Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb5-2013 | Tagged with Camus, consciousness, ideology, reading, repetition, tragedy

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