Postmodernisms HUM 2052 Civilization II Spring 2014 Dr

  • Slides: 13
Download presentation
Postmodernisms HUM 2052: Civilization II Spring 2014 Dr. Perdigao April 24, 2014

Postmodernisms HUM 2052: Civilization II Spring 2014 Dr. Perdigao April 24, 2014

René Magritte, Time Transfixed (1939) http: //vr. theatre. ntu. edu. tw/hlee/course/th 6_520/sty_20 c/painting/magritte-01 X.

René Magritte, Time Transfixed (1939) http: //vr. theatre. ntu. edu. tw/hlee/course/th 6_520/sty_20 c/painting/magritte-01 X. jpg

René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced (1937) http: //psyc. queensu. ca/~psyc 382/magritte-notrepro. jpg

René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced (1937) http: //psyc. queensu. ca/~psyc 382/magritte-notrepro. jpg

René Magritte, The False Mirror (1928) http: //www. rogallery. com/_RG-Images/Magritte-The_False_Mirror. jpg

René Magritte, The False Mirror (1928) http: //www. rogallery. com/_RG-Images/Magritte-The_False_Mirror. jpg

Escher, Eye (1946) http: //www. globalgallery. com/prod_images/600/esc-e 55. jpg

Escher, Eye (1946) http: //www. globalgallery. com/prod_images/600/esc-e 55. jpg

Disturbia? http: //www. filmposters. it/imgposter/grandi/donnie-darko-poster-1. jpg

Disturbia? http: //www. filmposters. it/imgposter/grandi/donnie-darko-poster-1. jpg

The Bunny! http: //tf. org/images/covers/tf. org-Donnie-Darko-free-2008. jpg

The Bunny! http: //tf. org/images/covers/tf. org-Donnie-Darko-free-2008. jpg

All things Darko http: //www. posters. ws/images/981539/donnie_darko. jpg

All things Darko http: //www. posters. ws/images/981539/donnie_darko. jpg

Way! http: //boston. broadwayworld. com/board/readmessage. cfm? thread=948522

Way! http: //boston. broadwayworld. com/board/readmessage. cfm? thread=948522

On Donnie • http: //www. donniedarkofilm. com/ • Eye—in poster, eye on engine, dream

On Donnie • http: //www. donniedarkofilm. com/ • Eye—in poster, eye on engine, dream with sky (back to Magritte? ) • Graham Greene’s The Destructors • Grandma Death • The Philosophy of Time Travel • Hawking’s A Brief History of Time • Wormhole, time travel • “Where’s Donnie? ”

Mapping • Ideas about civilization, self and other, civilized and savage: Of Cannibals; Frankenstein;

Mapping • Ideas about civilization, self and other, civilized and savage: Of Cannibals; Frankenstein; Heart of Darkness; Valéry; Spengler; Freud; Serenity; Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber; Slaughterhouse-Five • Politics and power: The Prince; Hamlet; Marx and Engels; Notes from Underground; Heart of Darkness; Serenity • Religion: Don Quixote; Hamlet; Candide; Frankenstein; Heart of Darkness; Sartre; Slaughterhouse-Five; Donnie Darko • Science: Candide; Frankenstein; Darwin; Freud; Notes from Underground; The Garden of Forking Paths; Donnie Darko • Gender politics: Don Quixote; Hamlet; Candide; Sophia; Von Hippel; Frankenstein; Notes from Underground; Heart of Darkness • Identity crises and play: Don Quixote; Hamlet; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Slaughterhouse-Five; Donnie Darko • Ideas about textuality, the place of art, literature: Don Quixote; Frankenstein; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Slaughterhouse-Five; The Garden of Forking Paths