![]() “There always comes a time when the person who dares say that two plus two is four is condemned to die.” “”They say cold weather stops these sorts of diseases.'” “The world’s evil almost always comes from ignorance, and unenlightened goodwill can do as much harm as malice.” I have translated a number of quotes from the novel that struck me as I reread it this spring after face to face instruction was suspended because of COVID-19. ![]() While The Plague attempts to articulate universal truths about humanity’s reactions to suffering (whether caused by human aggression, by poor governance, or by nature), the novel does resonate with our current moment in specific ways. What’s more, the plague brings people from very different backgrounds together in the common cause of resistance against the disease-even though it costs many of them their lives. While there are obvious parallels between the plague in the novel and the peste brune (the brown plague, a nickname for the Nazis who occupied France during World War 2), by transforming the threat into an act of nature, Camus shifts the focus from human cruelty to the many reactions to suffering: some pretend it doesn’t exist, some try to escape it, others accept it and try to alleviate pain. 30 minutes).Albert Camus’ novel depicts the city of Oran, Algeria during a contemporary outbreak of the plague. “Satire and Social Change in Renaissance France.” Original airdate (approx. 15 minutes).įeatured guest on Thinking Aloud, BYU Radio. Interview on The Morning Show, BYU Radio, “French Satire and the Charlie Hebdo Attacks.” Original airdate 13 Jan. ![]() “Instruments of Re-formation: The Watch as a De-Centering Force of the Reformation.” Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Pasadena, CA, Feb. “From Private Mockery to Public Scorn: Renaissance Satire and Nascent Subjectivities.” Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Pasadena, CA, Feb. “Unnerving Echoes: Du Bellay’s Disembodied Voices and the Impossibility of Forgetting.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, Apr. “Writing the Fragmented Body: Satire as Weapon and Metaphor in the Wars of Religion.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference Fort Worth, TX, Oct. “The Poetics of Sacrilege: Corporeal Satire in the Reformation.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. “Voicing the Satyrical in Sixteenth-Century France: Divergent Satirical Strategies and Their Common Origins.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, New Orleans, LA, Oct. “Overtures to Violence: Artus Désiré and Théodore de Bèze at the Outset of the Wars of Religion.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Oct. “Satirized Scripture: Forging Satirical Weapons from the Bible in the French Wars of Religion.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Bruges, Belgium, Aug. “Shepherds, Swineherds, and Filthy Cities: The Myth of Rural Virtue in Sixteenth-century French Satire.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Oct. “ Ceci n’est pas un conte: Glissant’s La Lézarde and the Treachery of Words in Postcolonial Discourse.” Watermark, vol. ![]() “La France satirisée, satyrisée et fragmentée : L’autoreprésentation factionnelle au temps des guerres de religion.” Littérature et politique : Factions et dissidences de la Ligue à la Fronde. Kendrick. Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2019. “Forging Satire from Scripture: Biblical Models and Verbal Violence before the Wars of Religion.” Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion. “Of Pastorals and Partisans: Nationalist Variations on the Myth of Rural Virtue in Sixteenth-Century Anti-Protestant Polemics.” Sixteenth Century Journal. Forthcoming from Bucknell University Press (2020). Critical translation of four French plays, with Corry Cropper. Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892. ![]() Sixteenth-century Polemical Pamphlet Project ( website)Ī website featuring digital transcriptions of sixteenth-century polemical pamphlets with integrated analytical tools.
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