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Postmodernisms. HUM 2052: Civilization II Spring 2013 Dr. Perdigao April 22-24, 2013. René Magritte, Time Transfixed (1939). http://vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw/hlee/course/th6_520/sty_20c/painting/magritte-01X.jpg. René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced (1937).
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Postmodernisms HUM 2052: Civilization II Spring 2013 Dr. Perdigao April 22-24, 2013
René Magritte, Time Transfixed (1939) http://vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw/hlee/course/th6_520/sty_20c/painting/magritte-01X.jpg
René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced (1937) http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/magritte-notrepro.jpg
René Magritte, The False Mirror (1928) http://www.rogallery.com/_RG-Images/Magritte/Magritte-The_False_Mirror.jpg
Escher, Eye (1946) http://www.globalgallery.com/prod_images/600/esc-e55.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
All things Darko http://www.posters.ws/images/981539/donnie_darko.jpg
Way! http://boston.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=948522
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; 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