ENG375/AHI318

Spring 2012
Time:	Monday, 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm
Location:	201 NSC
Instructor:	SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Diane Christian Email: engdc@buffalo.edu Office hours: Mon. after class, Wednesday 1-3, & by appointment, Clemens 610
Teaching Assistants:	Dr. Rene Rojas rojas@ecc.edu Office hours: M 4:45-6:00, Baldy walkway & by appointmentt. Amanda Davis Buonopane ajdavis2@buffalo.edu Office hours: M 5-6:30, Starbucks & by appointment Megan Faragher megan.faragher@gmail.com Office hours: W 3-4, Clemens 231 & 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).

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