Critical Insights: Albert Camus

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2011

ISBN13

9781587658785

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This volume offers original contributions, while also reprinting a sampling of some of the more trenchant earlier essays about the man and his work. Essays discuss the reception of Camus's oeuvre, themes that have inspired discussion, points of continuing controversy, and Camus's own reaction to his hostile critics.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: On Albert Camus.
2: Biography of Albert Camus.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: Algeria's Others.
5: Albert Camus and the Metaphor of Absurdity.
6: Albert Camus and W. G. Sebald: The Search for Home.
7: Albert Camus's Critical Reception: From Celebration to Controversy.
Critical Readings.
8: Camus's Hug.
9: Silence Follows: Albert Camus in Algeria.
10: Caligula: Camus's Anti-Shama.
11: A Reading of Albert Camus' La Mort Heureuse.
12: Richard Wright's The Outsider and Albert Camus's The Stranger.
13: Is the Absurd the Problem or the Solution? The Myth of Sisyphus Reconsidered.
14: Space/Place and Home: Prefiguring Contemporary Political and Religious Discourse in Albert Camus's The Plague.
15: Camus's The Fall: The Dynamics of Narrative Unreliability.
16: Pathologies of Pride in Camus's The Fall.
17: The Popular-Ritual Structural Pattern of Albert Camus' La Chute.
18: A Story of Cain: Another Look at “L'Hôte”.
Resources.
19: Chronology of Albert Camus's Life.
20: Works by Albert Camus.
21: Bibliography.
Critical Insights.
About the Editor.
About The Paris Review.
Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
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