BASC50125 - Beyond Tradition III: The Crisis of Modernity: Apocalypse
Course Description
“Apocalypse” has become the term of art for expressing a sense of a historical ending, near or remote, terrible or redemptive. In this class, we explore this sense through a variety of classic texts, theoretical and literary. In the seminar, we read: Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (selections), Sartre, Nausea, Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending (selections), and Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth; in the tutorial, selections from the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (selections), Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and McCarthy, The Road—together with various rather apocalyptic sounding poems.
1. Beckett, Samuel, Endgame and Act Without Words (Grove Press) 978-0802144393
2. Blake, William, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color (Dover) 978-0486281223
3. Hersey, John, Hiroshima (Vintage) 978-0679721031
4. Horkheimer, Max and Adorno, Theodor, Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) (Stanford) 978-0804736336
5. Kermode, Frank, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Oxford) 978-0195136128
6. McCarthy, Cormac, The Road (Vintage) 978-0307387899
7. Miller, Wlater M., A Canticle for Liebowitz (Eos) 978-0060892999
8. Schell, Jonathan, The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford) 978-0804737029
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