Postmodernisms HUM 2052: Civilization II Spring 2013 Dr. Perdigao April 22-24, 2013
René Magritte, Time Transfixed (1939)
René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced (1937)
René Magritte, The False Mirror (1928)
Escher, Eye (1946)
Disturbia?
The Bunny!
All things Darko
Way!
On Donnie 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 ; 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