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Macaulay Honors College, CUNYProfessor Lee Quinby
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Category Archives: November
Article on Apocalypse and Environmentalist Books
Hi, here’s the article I mentioned in class on how apocalyptic some of the recent books on environmentalism are: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Doom-Boom/125474/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
Posted in Lee Quinby, November, November 30
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The End, and New Beginnings
Throughout human history, the apocalypse has been present as a cultural construct capable of inducing a wide range of reactions among those who accept its viability. Now, as the concept is deconstructed in conjunction with the complexities of postmodernism, the … Continue reading
Posted in Mac Warren, November, November 30
Tagged apocalypse, Book of Revelation, Children of Men, End of Days, Film, gender role reversal, Movies, postmodernism, Quinby, Revelation, Rosen, Science Fiction
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Apocalypse as Entertainment
Since the beginning of the semester, I have been keeping in mind the connection between the Apocalypse and entertainment. These two essays explore and show the complex dichotomy of these concepts. The Apocalypse lends itself to extraordinary scenes of epic … Continue reading
Why Men Throw Bombs
Quinby’s Essay on “Unsettling the Fundamentalist Mindset” provides yet another look into the plethora of ways in which apocalyptic notions and the fundamentalist mindset come into play in a broad-range of real-world situations. The entire patriarchal structure of American families, … Continue reading
Posted in Andreas Apostolopoulos, November, November 30
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