Postmodernisms

HUM 2052: Civilization IISpring 2013Dr. 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