Human Traditions II: Writing the Modern World
Course Catalog: “Writing the Modern World.” One way to think about the title of the course is in terms of a provocative claim made by Harold Bloom: Shakespeare “invented the human.” In what sense could a writer ever “invent” the human, or to put it differently, in what ways might she be able to write a human being into being? If the world is indeed a stage, as Shakespeare suggests in As You Like It, then to what extent is being human a matter of fashioning a role – a character – for oneself to play and perform? Is there a sense of self apart from this sense of performance, that is, does it make sense to speak of an inner, private self, and of an outer, public self? What are the consequences of this way of life, this structure of feeling? Is it creative? Alienating? Both? Interested?
This class was amazing! Another one of my favorites just because it exposed me to the truth behind history. The biggest thing I will take away is that history is always written by the conqueror. This is one of my favorite writing pieces that I completed for this course. I learned that history is written from the top to the bottom and never exposes the full truth. Sometimes when I go back to my friends and tell them things I learned from this course, they don’t believe me. It’s crazy in my opinion. This course is also the best midterm grade I received this semester and this information is something I attained to regurgitate into the real world. I love classes that exposes lies and this is one of them. Perhaps the next time you pay cash for gas, you should question why Andrew Jackson is on the $20 bill. News Flash: Not a good guy at all.
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