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Heaven Hell & Judgment |
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Heaven Hell & Judgment |
| Spring 2009 | |
| Time: | Monday, 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm |
| Location: | Knox 104 |
| Instructor: | SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Diane Christian Email: engdc@buffalo.edu Office hours: Mon. after class, Wednesday 1-3, & by appointment, Clemens 610
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| Teaching Assistants: | Dr. Rene Rojas rojas@ecc.edu
Office hours: M 5-6:30, Baldy walkway & by appt.
Colleen Kennedy colleenekh@juno.com Office hours: M 5-6:30, Starbucks & by appointment. Chris Madson cjmadson@buffalo.edu 1–2:30 Alfiero Center & by appointment |
| This course will consider great verbal and visual texts of eternal reward and punishment -- images and stories of heaven, hell and judgment from ancient Sumer to modern film. We will study the Sumerian goddess Inanna's descent to the great below, the Egyptian weighing of the soul, classical underworlds, blessed places and judgment scenes. We'll also consider the Christian Apocalypse and medieval illuminations, Romanesque churches, Dante's Inferno and Paradiso, mystic visionaries, Michelangelo, Signorelli and Bosch, and Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. We'll finish with the 1946 classic film A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven). |
Syllabus and Schedule of Readings
Schedule of Images Online
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Giotto and the Arena Chapel
Michelangelo's
"Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel
Visions of
Tondal