Camus' Plague, Creighton University

From the perspective of an overworked physician, Camus’ novel explores how human beings respond to the existential threat posed by an outbreak of the plague in the Algerian town of Oran. This course will read and analyze Camus’ fictional representations of health, illness, and community, alongside secondary readings on the nature of epidemic narratives and literary criticism of Camus’ novel—to illuminate and reflect on contemporary cultural conditions in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic and how the stories of this time are being told. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.