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Macaulay Honors College, CUNYProfessor Lee Quinby
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Tag Archives: Rosen
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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I Suppose I Ought To Call It Symbolism
It is not for a lack of academic integrity that my comments will not be quite so thorough on the writings by Professor Quinby. I can assure the reader that it is, indeed, the opposite (in a way) – I … Continue reading
Posted in Jon Rossi, November, November 30
Tagged 28 Days Later, apocalypse, Apocalypto, Bush, Bush Administration, Cain and Able, Children of Men, co-savior, collective mindset, convert, gender role reversal, George W. Bush, Mel Gibson, President Bush, Quinby, reading, redemption, Rosen
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The Constant Apocalypse
I find Kermode’s thesis reassuring in its logical simplicity. I believe that his assertion about the nature of the Apocalypse – that we “project ourselves … past the End, so as to see the structured whole” (p. 8 ) – … Continue reading
Posted in Mac Warren, September, September 28
Tagged Alan Moore, apocalypse, Duck and Cover, End of Days, end of the world, Film, Kurt Vonnegut, Revelation, Rosen, Slaughterhouse Five, Time
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September 26th Rosen and Kermode
In Frank Kermode’s The End, there is one particular passage that caught my attention. Kermode wrote: “We may be sure that the failure of 1964, or even so far of 1965, to produce atomic war and the burning of Paris … Continue reading
